As I’ve been approaching season seven of The Next Generation, I’ve been wondering what to do about Deep Space Nine. DS9 and TNG were on the air simultaneously, so I’ve been wondering how best to watch them, whether to finish all of TNG before starting the DS9 DVDs, or to interleave them in air order (either by disc or by episode, although the latter would probably require upping my Netflix subscription). Turns out the decision got made without my realizing it.

I had always assumed, because I sort of remembered it, that DS9 premiered the same time as TNG’s seventh season. So I was quite surprised to start watching “Birthright: Part 1” (episode 16 of season six) and find that it takes place at Deep Space Nine. It turns out—and I remember it now—that DS9 began to air in January 1993, about half way through season six. So I’ve been five episodes into Deep Space Nine and didn’t even know it. Oops. Guess I’ll keep watching TNG, then.

I have just now discovered that if you search Costco.com for “dos equis”, you get three results: two kinds of Metamucil and some Bayer aspirin. I’m not sure what this means.

(Apparently, not finding any results for my search, it assumes I meant “dose equis”, and those are the products that have “dose” in the description. Amusing, though.)

Update: Laura thinks people reading this might not know what Dos Equis is. It’s Spanish for “we’re out of Corona.”

All day, I’ve been wondering why my iCal window seems so cramped and busy, even though it’s the same size it’s always been. I finally realized it’s because April 2006 spans six weeks, rather than the usual five. So iCal’s month view shows 42 days instead of 35. I’ve made my window larger, and that seems to help.

It’s interesting that I’ve never noticed this before. Maybe I’ve just never paid enough attention; I do occasionally feel the need to resize iCal to fit everything comfortably, and the last six-week month was October 2005, which was over five months ago. The next one is this July.

The next four-week month is February 2009, the last was in 1998 (February 2004 also started on a Sunday, but it was a leap year).