About once a week, in casual conversation, a friend will bring up Battlestar Galactica. I love that show to no end, and will talk about it for an unhealthy amount of time, given the chance.

But somehow, through an accident of bad planning -- and even worse Tivo management -- I completely missed that season ender.

I assume that Sci-Fi ran that puppy 15 times, like they usually do...but somehow, I missed 'em all.

So every time conversation steers towards that last episode, I have to be the guy in the room that goes "LA LA LA LA...ALL IS WELL...JUST A DUDE WITH HIS HANDS OVER HIS EARS...LA LA LA...NUTHIN' UNUSUAL HERE." And it bums me out.

I want my nerdly life back! I want to be able to waste otherwise productive hours blathering on and on about an imaginary world! I want to see that episode, dang it!

Taking this play to the New York stage -- and hanging out in NYC all week with a funny and far-more-talented-than-I group of actors -- was something I'm going to hold on to for a long, long time. To put it mildly, actors are fun to hang out with. You laugh a lot, hanging out with actors. Far more so than cartoonists. Just by way of comparison: actors are extroverted to the extreme, whereas most cartoonists are so shy, they end up marrying the first person that smooches them. Which, in some cases, means their mail carrier.

In any case, the play was absolutely exhilirating, and I was stoked to have so many Sheldon readers come out to see the show -- including a pair who flew all the way from Washington, DC! Thankfully, everyone had glowing praise about the show -- which is something you don't take for granted in the capital of US theater. So a huge thank you to the Sheldonistas for comin' out!

....and one final tidbit of news from New York trip:

The final tweaks were maade to the next Sheldon book, which means it's zooming off to the printers sometime in the next few days. The book is looking really good, and will include the Coffee Cup Lid Challenge, an expanded version of the Flaco-to-Space Saturday Storyline, every single strip drawn since the last book...and will even include some strips we couldn't fit in the last book. It's gonna be awesome.

(Look for more news on the book in the next Sheldon newsletter!)