oh, hello.

well it's easter weekend and alayna's back home down south, so it's a rare loner weekend for me. i'm not complaining, i'd hate for it to be like that every weekend, but now and then doesn't hurt i guess.

long fuckin week at work though. between a few physical therapy sessions (almost done, shins go back and forth between hurting and not) and a couple trips to airports, along with the requisite 40 hours of work, i feel like i earned my weekend.

i've only ever worked around march/easter back in 2000, so i wasn't really expecting everybody in the fuckin world to be taking good friday off... that made the afternoon go even slower.

we went and saw the ring two thursday night. imdb has it at a shockingly low 5.1, and the saddest part is that i think i completely agree with that rating. maybe a generous 6, but still. not entirely sure why, just didn't have the "magic" the first one had. this one was too cheesy and formulaic to really be all that scary in the same kinda way the original one was. seemed to me like another movie that could have done without a sequel. hopefully i won't hear anything of a 3rd in the works, there's enough horror movies on the horizon already. i should know, they showed previews for 'em all before the ring two.

we've found that kelsey grammer's the sketch show on fox is actually pretty funny. i'd highly recommend grabbing the torrent of the first 2 eps and appreciate its short-and-sweet humor. i watched that first ep of the US version of the office, and it's about as mediocre as i'd figured. it could have maybe some potential if given a chance, but something tells me the show's concept just ain't gonna work on this side of the pond. i won't be surprised if it's belly-up after 6 episodes or something.

i'll use that to launch into a quick aside where i wonder aloud what the hell ever happend to nbc. back in the mid/late-90s, nbc was basically *the* network. thursday nights were amazing, friends, then a typically good show at 7:30, followed by seinfeld, then usually a crummy show at 8:30, then ER at 9pm. in my opinion, go back and look at '95-96, for instance:

Friends
The Single Guy
Seinfeld
Caroline in the City
ER

at least to me, that's when thursday nights i wouldn't think of watching anything else. now, besides scrubs and ER, what does nbc have? it's funny how fox is even considered a better network than them now, and to me arrested development, the sketch show, simpsons and king of the hill all prolly prove that fox actually is the stronger network.

i know i've mentioned it before, but it suddenly dawned on me earlier today that i think it had probably been 2-3 weeks since i last actually sat in front of the tv and just flipped around the channels or watched something other than one of my mainstays live. kinda makes me wonder about my stupid almost-$60 directv bill, that's for sure. i guess as far as what i do at night when i've got some free time, i don't seem to ever just sit and blankly watch tv. i'm either surfing or doing something semi-constructive on my pc's, catching up on some shows thru tivo or catching up on some shows that i downloaded.

and speaking of catching up, time to sleep without the alarm set. see ya in a few days.

--j