Friday, January 27, 2006

I managed to make progress on the DVR viewing yesterday while I lounged in the recliner. I caught up on Invasion, E-Ring, and NCIS. I still need to watch episodes of Close to Home, Without a Trace, and Numb3rs. Then there’s every episode of the new season of Dancing with the Stars, too. My thoughts follow (***spoilers***):

Invasion was starting to lose me until this week’s episode. To go back to Tom’s plane crash survival was good, made him more sympathetic. And the “hope” thing makes him seem less manevolent, but the hybrid secret army camp makes us remember that he’s not necessarily a good guy. Larkin annoys me. I love the kids, especially Jesse.

E-Ring has been bold with the killing off of JT’s love interest, the needless resignation of Algazi, and now the promotion of Sonny to ASDef-SOLIC. If JT gets that promotion and back into the field full time, then I wonder how the show will change focus away from the politics of the Pentagon to more about his antics around the world’s hot spots. It’s a cheesy show, but it’s pro-military, which I appreciate.

NCIS is another cheesy show, but Mark Harmon makes it worth watching. And not just because he’s easy on the eyes, but because his curmudgeonly character is interesting. The thing that drives me batty about this show is that it’s set in northern Virginia and they mention local places and roads all the time, but they fictionalize it all. This week’s episode took place all around where I live in Fairfax, but there was little reality in the locations they mentioned except for road names.

Still feeling terrible, but I’m at work today. I have to pay out the last vouchers today since I have monthly close-out next week. Stinks.

Oh, and there’s that no more leave available thing since I took it all for the wedding and honeymoon.

Day-Quil is my very best friend today. At least I hope so...I’m still waiting for it to kick in.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

I’ve been tagged to complete the meme by Bill. So here ya go:

4 Movies You Could Watch Over and Over
1. The Lord of the Rings
2. It’s a Wonderful Life
3. You’ve Got Mail
4. Deep Blue Sea - yes, I realize it’s a really bad movie about genetically altered sharks. I can’t help myself.

4 Places You Have Lived
1. Virginia
2. Washington (state)
3. England
4. New Hampshire

4 TV Shows You Love To Watch
1. 24
2. Lost
3. CSI
4. The Amazing Race

4 Places You Have Been On Vacation
1. Disney World
2. Sedona, Arizona
3. Scotland
4. Home, wherever that has been

4 Websites You Visit Daily
1. The Thinklings
2. Cootiehog
3. The Llama Butchers
4. FoxNews.com

And a bunch of other ones.

4 Of Your Favorite Foods
1. Chinese - General Tso’s Chicken
2. Mexican - pretty much anything, but I love the fajitas at the Rio Grande here locally.
3. Italian - gnocchi that melts in your mouth
4. Indian - Tandoori chicken

4 Places You Would Rather Be Right Now
1. Normally I would say at home. I am at home right now, so that’s great!
2. Wherever my new husband is
3. Back on my honeymoon
4. Home

4 Bloggers You are Tagging
I won’t tag anyone. If you want to do this, trackback or let me know in the comments.

I could get onboard with this idea.

[Via Dean]

Ran a low fever last night and I think it has returned now that the cold meds I took last night in order to sleep have worn off.

Going back to bed now.

Toodles…

This is slightly spoilerish, however it doesn’t not give away too much of the central plot point of last night’s episode of LOST. Two things from last night’s episode that I just need to clarify:

1. Baptism does not cleanse you from sin nor does it ensure your entrance into heaven.

2. Jesus knew no sin and therefore did not need to be cleansed from it through baptism.

Thinkling Bill was none too pleased with this bad theology as well.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Via Reality Blurred, it turns out that Phil thought TAR8 was awful, too. Nice to get that confirmation.

Producers admitted that it didn’t really work. Also nice to know that the old formula for the show, that worked very well, will be back in TAR9.

Great episode last night. My few comments:

1. The dude who sang She’s Out of My Life and then claimed that the Paula/Randy DVD was where he learned his singing skillz was priceless. It was fun that Paula and Randy chuckled at that news and Simon’s delighted joy at that revelation was awesome. I was laughing hard.

2. Say what you want, Ryan Seacrest has a dry sense of humor and does a great job with these losers contestants. He is very good at deadpanning his reaction to some of these nutjobs - case in point being the stripper’s daughter in the weird lingerie outfit and the teenage Wayne Newton with the placard extolling his journey to AI.

3. My favorite of the night was Rhonetta, whom I affectionately call, Honetta. If you saw her, then you understand the nickname, right? Class act, that chick.

I’m looking forward to tonight’s edition - San Francisco.

When the muse hits, I have to go with it. New template is up - clear your cache and refresh if it looks weird.

Let me know if I missed anything.

I am...that antibiotics do nothing to the common cold. After managing to stay healthy all though the time Beau suffered, I now have his cold.

Joy.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

I’ll keep this template for a little while longer, but I have the creative bug now so I’ve begun work on the new look. I spent some time at lunch looking at stock photos at FreeFoto.com and I downloaded several as possible header graphics. Now I’ll need to figure out coordinating colors for the fonts, backgrounds, blockquote box, title bars. Then comes the work of developing the header and the sidebar titles. I figure I’ll get something ready to go in early February.

I’m inspired by one particular photo because it’s lovely and the colors are great. So we’ll see how it works out.

Stay tuned…

Skating with Celebrities: I recorded the first episode last week on Tivo upstairs but I haven’t had a chance to watch it. I might not now since I watched last night’s edition of Skating with Celebrities. Wow is this good-bad TV. I came in late, so I missed seeing Kristy Swanson and Dave Coulier skate. The rest are pretty awful, although Jillian Barbieri was better than I had expected. Todd Bridges was hilarious.

I think I like it better than Dancing with the Stars only because of the danger factor. There is great potential for serious injury with the skating stuff and that increased the tension a bit. Makes it a little more interesting.

Oh, and Dorothy Hamill is gorgeous!

24: ***May be spoilerish*** I won’t comment too much on the episode itself except to say that Spenser is an idiot. What I will say is that Beau still seems unimpressed with the whole thing, although he did come up from the basement just before it started to watch it with me. So I think he does like it a little bit and just won’t admit it.

I finally got the chance to watch the three episodes of The Office that I had to record because of our honeymoon and recent schedule.

What a bizarre little show. It’s uncomfortable and hilarious. While it is complete fiction, this sitcom has the feel of reality with deeply flawed characters led by the boss, Michael (Steve Carell). He’s the guy you really want to like, for some weird reason, but is so socially inept and borderline loathesome that you just can’t. The entire cast is perfect.

So, my thoughts on the last three episodes (spoiler warning):

1. What on earth possessed Jim to confide his crush on Pam to Michael, of all people? That said, I love that in the last episode it came up and was handled the way it was. I feared the loss of the tension between Jim and Pam and they way they brought that back was fantastic. I love them.

2. Dwight is easily the creepiest dude on TV. But I love him. When he became “normal” as a result of his concussion, I was cracking up.

3. I loved the scene in the episode where Michael burned his foot on his George Foreman grill where he brought in the guy in the wheelchair to discuss people with disabilities. Priceless.

The companion website for Dunder-Mifflin is awesome as is Dwight’s blog.

Great show.

Monday, January 23, 2006

So you tell me, would you like this theme to stay for a bit longer or do you want the spring colors back?

The gal who was going to create a new skin for me never returned my final inquiries to her, so I’m assuming that will never happen. Shame, too, because her theme was quite different and lovely.

Anyone up to the task of creating a new theme?

From President Bush’s speech today, regarding the NSA wiretaps:

If I wanted to break the law, why was I briefing Congress?

Good question.