Terry and the Pirates is an old Columbia serial from 1940.  Its based on the old newspaper comic from the same period.  The entire plot involved a young boy and his older male companion(OMC) as they travel to exotic locations and get into adventures.  Later when WWII broke out Terry joined the Army Corps and continued to fight evil in exotic locations.  It is said that the Indiana Jones movies draw some inspiration from them.
The plot of this serial is Terry and his OMC travel to some jungle to catch up with Terry’s dad an archaeologist. where they run a foul of a long simmering feud between the Dragon Lady(yes this is the origin of that phrase) and Fang.  Most of the movie is spent traveling from set to set with our heroes getting into fights, lots of fights.  So far they have survived: a giant hay(as in straw) storm, a volcano, burning buildings, eaten by crocodiles, blown up by a hand grenade and many fights with a large Monkey and his trainer.
The sets were kinda limited, we have seen Dragon Lady’s Throne room, Fang’s headwaters, with the optional torture chamber, His hideout(yea when you are really evil you 2 locations), Rubber plantation owner Drake’s House and a trading outpost with radio room.  The rest is film outside what looks to be LA(I think i even saw Gorn rock).  We are not sure what jungle they are supposed to be in, my current theory is somewhere like Burma, that once had a zoo which burned down and all the African animals escaped.  Some of the characters are dressed like Mongols, other in silly pajamas and another seem to be dressed like a druid priest.

We might look for either the Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers one next.

Last week was filled with the good and the bad, but then again so is life so no real surprise there.

In the Low category:

• Really Expensive BMW repair bill, and there will be more next month.
• Rejected for MRO job(which seals not moving to NM anytime soon)

In the High:

• Got to Drive a BMW Z4, thanks mostly due to the above low.
• Installed some new nifty window tabs for the jeep. I hope they will help keep my new windows from getting too scratched.
• Double XP weekend in City of Heroes/Villians. Lots of all around leveling for several of my toons and helped a couple friends finally get their first 50s.

UPDATE: and the hits keep comming Just found out that I got turned down for a great sounding job at IBM.  This one hurts the most cause all through the process I was being told that I was one of the stongest candidates.  I really don’t know what I am going to do now.

So Melissa got me a new soft top for the Jeep.  After 6 years the old one was starting to fall apart, the windows were really scratched up and the zippers were starting to go.  The new top is made of a better material and now has tinted rear windows(hopefully that will keep the temp down inside)  According to what I have read this new top is supposed to be much quieter, infact its the material that jeep now puts on all new versions.  I also ordered a new window kit that will help manage the windows and hopefully keep them from getting so dinged.
It does make the jeep look sharp.  I really need to give it a bath and maybe even polish the steel, to make it look really snazzy.