TV Tales & Other Weekend Recap Rambles

This weekend we did manage to watch an episode of 24. (Yes, just 1. That now leaves us 5 hours behind.) So, we now officially know that Wayne Palmer contacted Aaron and that the information sales chick named Audrey as her source and that the German Intel agent was pretty darn good looking and that Jack still rocks for having set the self-destruct on the memory card.

Side question: Do all memory cards come with a self destruct, or just CTU issue ones? Cause I would love to have a self-destructing memory card. That was always my favorite part of Inspector Gadget.

Maybe sometime this week we'll watch another episode of 24 and get to the point where I can finally tell Tim that I've known for weeks that this was going to happen and it's been killing me not to be able to say something. I'm guessing his reaction will be along the lines of "huh." (As in "Hmm....how very interesting." not as in "What was that? I didn't hear you.")

In other weekend news, I finished my paper yesterday. Yay! I hadn't planned to spend more than an hour or so on homework yesterday, but, well, between Tim napping and doing work, it just seemed like the better course of valor was to do productive work.

On the other hand, I did also get about 1/2 way into Everywhere that Mary Went. So far I'm enjoying it mightily and am glad that I also purchased Final Appeal. My only negative at this particular point is that it's first person. I don't know what it is about first person that just grates on my nerves, but...well...it does. (Which is silly, because I love blogs and I've yet to find a blog that isn't in first person when describing actions taken by the blogger in question. So why does this not translate into my mystery reading? Maybe it has to do with wanting to know what everyone is thinking, not just the one person - and by and large, most characters are not nosy enough to pull off first person well enough to assuage my curiosity.) So thanks for the recommendations - I am slowly starting into the list! (Much of the reading was accomplished on the deck with the fountain running. Ah...)

We also took the bikes down and dusted them off, pumped up the tires again and went for a short hop to the house of some friends who live nearby. It was a good day to be out on a bicycle, if you're into the bicycle type of thing. I have simply reaffirmed that I am not a bike person. We're going to try shortening my seat and see if that helps, but I'm not overly optimistic. I've never been particularly bike-riding fluent (reference the advanced age at which I finally really learned to ride, and no, I'm not sharing the exact age, though I will say it involved double digits and was pre-high school.) So, while Tim is doing the oh-so-cool coast/flip leg over and stand on one pedal so that stopping and being off the bike are one smooth motion, I'm the one coming to a complete stop then kind of half falling forward off the seat trying to avoid injuring myself and then trying to figure out exactly how I actually get off the stupid thing. I imagine I look like a duck on a tricycle. Oh well, it was still kind of fun.

Beyond that, Tim did the first mowing of the lawn (it was necessary, we were starting to lose puppies in certain areas of the grass.) In all, a pretty good weekend.