June 28, 2025: The Spaces experiment yields middling results!

At 3:00 p.m.. this afternoon, I kicked off the “Best Of…” month-long marathon with a pre-show.  Its purpose was foster discussion about the sci-fi shows we would be watching…and do a test run of this whole X Spaces thing. It was, admittedly, marginally successful.  I did most of the talking and despite having upwards of 70 listeners in attendance, a grand total of only two actually spoke/offered an opinion.  From a technical standpoint, I would have to give this Space a C.  At one point, I accidentally muted myself for about five minutes.  And when it was over, I looked to save and repost the Space only to discover it had failed to record.  Here’s hoping things run a lot smoother on Tuesday with the official kickoff that will see us discussing Andor and Babylon 5.  The original plan was to talk about each show for about 20 minutes each and then turn it over for some fan discussion but I don’t think I can count on fan participation so will just focus on discussing the episodes/shows with my co-host.

I think I may have done something to my neck.  Over the last couple of months, it stiffens up and feels incredibly sore at night – to the point that I ended up ordering one of those fancy special pillows…which sort of helped.  I’ve been going for physio and doing morning stretches (It seems that every day, Akemi discovers a new stretching video on youtube that gets added to already way-too-long routine), taking vitamin B3 and turmeric with black pepper.  Have seem some modest improvement of late despite one of my physio therapists surmising I may be suffering from arthritis!  The only good thing about my neck pain is it distracts me from my shoulder issues.

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