Woke @ 6a in Apex on -lt 6 hours' sleep.
Caf washed down w/gatorbev zero; shower/shave; vitamins+fibershoes.
Pay for parking: now $5/day (up from 3 I think)
Duplo Elsa + Bruni plus a 10" x 10" base were a big birthday hit.
Home-spun cotton candy, plus cotton candy flavored ice cream cake ... kids these days smh
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Saturday I started watching the director's cut of 1979's "Alien". Set in 2122, this was first in release chronology, but third going by in-universe chronological order. In-universe, the Alien franchise (ignoring the AVP crossovers and minor references connecting it to "Blade Runner" and the "Firefly" TV series) kicks off with 2012's "Prometheus", set in 2089, followed by 2017's "Alien: Covenant" set in 2104.
Something that really stands out now about "Aliens" is how dated its technological aesthetic looks. 1979's computer displays were flickery CRTs; LED wasn't on the horizon yet. 1977's "Star Wars" diverged from the genre's classics (e.g. "2001: A Space Odyssey", or the "Star Trek" series) with a similar shabby, cluttered, lived-in techno-aesthetic. By 1999, "space shabby" was enough of its own trope that Farscape practically oozed it.
Looking forward to Prometheus: the destination of the movie's central quest is LV-223, a moon of gas giant planet Calpamos in the Zeta Reticuli system - i.e. a real binary star system visible from Earth's southern hemisphere. Zeta Reticuli is ~39.3 light-years from Earth's solar system. The LV-426 colony (aka "Acheron"), where most of 1986's "Aliens" takes place, was another moon of Calpamos.