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tvordljYou all know the first New Year's baby in your area gets publicity. How many twins are born on different months, days and years? Apparently, in Michigan, a set of twin boys were born, one just before midnight on Dec. 31, 2008 and one not long after, on Jan. 1, 2009. I have cousins, a single with twin sisters who are all three of them the same age for a few days in December. The twins turned 50 this year on Dec. 18 and their older sister turned 51 on Christmas Eve. Then there's an interracial couple in the UK who has had two sets of twins. Each set of twins has one that looks very fair with blue eyes like the mother and the other has darker skin and eyes like their father who is black. THey are, of course, fraternal twins. It's quite rare, though, to have two twins look so racially different and even more for the second set of twins in the same family to have the same look. I don't know a lot about genetics but i do find it so interesting to see how features come out in the children. A mix of both parents or predominantly one or the other and even gestures too, though perhaps that's just picked up by osmosis. Still, children not raised by a biological parent have been known to use the same gestures or laugh the same way. It's fascinating, really.
I've been in the house for the last three days. New Year's day was the blizzard, y esterday was just to freaking cold and today i just had odds and ends to do that i hadn't done already. The tree and decorations are down for another year sadly. I love the mini lights, i could leave them up all year around if they weren't wired to the Christmas tree. What else... typed up minutes to a meeting i went to before Christmas, made homemade hummous and chopped up veggies into a covered bowl for easy access, did the dishes *and* put them away instead of letting them air dry, and i've been busy transferring video to the computer for days now. I discovered another half dozen tapes or so with stuff that needs copying plus i went through the tapes of movies on my bookshelf to see what i had that i wanted to keep and transfer or what to toss. I do notice there's a bit of reduction in quality and i don't have a stereo vcr so the sound won't be stereo on the digital copy. Most of the tv stuff was recorded on a mono vcr anyway so it probably wouldn't have come out with stereo sound anyway i guess. It'll leave more room on the shelf but on the dvd shelves, i think it'll fill up fast because i was already stacking dvds on top of it and with the tapes gone off the bottom shelf and putting the loose ones in, it's getting full already without the converted stuff! Some of the converted stuff i'm just going to put in a dvd wallet but some i'll put in cases.
So the new Doctor Who is going to be a 26 year old actor. I don't think i like the look of him, though in some ways he reminds me of David Tennant or maybe that's just the publicity photo they're using. He's similar in build though and he looks soooo young. I don't know his work so i don't know what he's going to be like. It's going to be jarring to get used to. I've got used to DT and he was quite good though i still prefer Ecclestone. I hope the new one will have a personality very different from DT's manic Doctor. We have a long time to wonder. Won't see his face on screen until the Christmas special.
I've been in the house for the last three days. New Year's day was the blizzard, y esterday was just to freaking cold and today i just had odds and ends to do that i hadn't done already. The tree and decorations are down for another year sadly. I love the mini lights, i could leave them up all year around if they weren't wired to the Christmas tree. What else... typed up minutes to a meeting i went to before Christmas, made homemade hummous and chopped up veggies into a covered bowl for easy access, did the dishes *and* put them away instead of letting them air dry, and i've been busy transferring video to the computer for days now. I discovered another half dozen tapes or so with stuff that needs copying plus i went through the tapes of movies on my bookshelf to see what i had that i wanted to keep and transfer or what to toss. I do notice there's a bit of reduction in quality and i don't have a stereo vcr so the sound won't be stereo on the digital copy. Most of the tv stuff was recorded on a mono vcr anyway so it probably wouldn't have come out with stereo sound anyway i guess. It'll leave more room on the shelf but on the dvd shelves, i think it'll fill up fast because i was already stacking dvds on top of it and with the tapes gone off the bottom shelf and putting the loose ones in, it's getting full already without the converted stuff! Some of the converted stuff i'm just going to put in a dvd wallet but some i'll put in cases.
So the new Doctor Who is going to be a 26 year old actor. I don't think i like the look of him, though in some ways he reminds me of David Tennant or maybe that's just the publicity photo they're using. He's similar in build though and he looks soooo young. I don't know his work so i don't know what he's going to be like. It's going to be jarring to get used to. I've got used to DT and he was quite good though i still prefer Ecclestone. I hope the new one will have a personality very different from DT's manic Doctor. We have a long time to wonder. Won't see his face on screen until the Christmas special.
