Well...Here I Am...

That's a quote from the greatest cancelled-too-soon tv show, Firefly. (It was cancelled after Fox aired 11 episodes, out of order, at random times. Gee, I wonder why it had trouble building an audience?) Anyway, there's a great episode called "Objects in Space." Basically it's a sci-fi show, but it doesn't bore you with techno-babble. It's really just a character driven drama based on a space ship. The captain is in the "transport" business, which means he will do illegal things when he can get away with it. The rest of the crew love him to death and would follow him anywhere. In the first episode, they take on a couple of passengers who end up being fugitives. But since one of them is a highly trained surgeon, Captain Mal decides to aid and abet them. In this particular episode, a wickedly smart and calmly violent (you have to see the character to understand that description) bounty hunter named Jubal Early has caught up with them. He's going to take the girl fugitive back and get his reward. It's riveting how he proves to be a significant threat and then how they overcome him. The whole time he's taking over their ship, he's spouting deep thoughts, Confucious style. By the end of the episode, he is floating off into space with nothing but the air in his little space suit to sustain him. His final words are "Well...here I am..."

So that was a very long lead in to tell you that I feel like Jubal Early. I had a plan, an objective. But now I'm out floating in space. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing or who's going to fly my way. For now, I'm heading out in service. It feels important that that be the first thing I do on my first official day of redundancy.