Day 136 (Osaka) : No season 3?

Somehow I managed to get two copies of season 4 and no disc for season 3 of Battlestar Galactica. I did get to watch the pilot episodes that I over looked before. Now a lot of the flash backs they've been showing through out the first two seasons make a ton more sense. The only real break from the sci-fi marathon was a throw back suspense flick, Anamorph maybe. It seemed really low budget, second string actors and actresses, but some of the crime scenes were pretty high in shock appeal. The ending was pretty disappointing though. The mastermind behind all the serial killings that used all kinds of cool tricks for the first hour just guns the protagonist down. No tricks, no special set up, just pow pow.

I found a home DIY project for making affordable solar curtains. Those things usually run around eighty bucks but you can get the raw materials for about eight. So I ordered two mylar blankets from Amazon and I'm working out the mounting device at one of the crafts shops near Tennoji station. The cool thing about mylar blankets, or space blankets, is that they insulate or deflect over 90% of heat depending on which surface the heat comes into contact with. So if you're freezing on a camping trip, you an use it to conserve body heat or if you're burning up in a desert, you can use it to keep cool. The latter purpose is what I'm going to benefit from by hanging it outside my ceiling to floor patio windows. From morning until night that side of my apartment is a raging inferno from all the sun light that comes through. It'll probably take a few days before the stuff gets here but I'm optimistic.