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Birth, School, Work, Death
Jan. 21st, 2007 06:01 pmChicago just won the NFC Championship, 39-14. I have nothing against the Bears, but I really wanted to see the Saints go to the Super Bowl. Hopefully, the second game of the day will yield more favorable results.
I set up a wireless network for Mom&Dad yesterday. Took a little wrangling, but eventually WinXP just brute-forced its way to making things work. Took my niece a new game for her DualScreen - LEGO Star Wars II. She was extremely happy.
A predicted winter storm never really materialized here. Woke up this morning to some frozen rain and an iced-over Explorer, but the roads were only wet, thank goodness.
24 continues tomorrow night, opposite the return of Heroes. I had planned to watch 24 and catch the Heroes repeat on SciFi on Friday nights, but I think I'm just going to abandon 24. I love the Jack Bauer Power Hour, and am consistently impressed by the show's writers' ability to end every episode with a cliffhanger, but I'm facing some degree of, I don't know, counter-terrorism exhaustion. I'm tired of seeing Jack face incredible odds and take down the bad guys and find conspiracies everywhere and face his own human weaknesses. It's like why I never got around to seeing The Return of the King: I know what I'm getting into - it's big, it's terrific, it's exciting, but I've seen it before, over and again. Heroes just flat works better for me right now. I'm more interested in reading Iron Man and Teen Titans and Daredevil and JSA than John Le Carre. I'm running Mutants & Masterminds, not Spycraft. All of it's wonderful, but it isn't all interesting.
Time to settle in, read some more ConX, and watch football.
I set up a wireless network for Mom&Dad yesterday. Took a little wrangling, but eventually WinXP just brute-forced its way to making things work. Took my niece a new game for her DualScreen - LEGO Star Wars II. She was extremely happy.
A predicted winter storm never really materialized here. Woke up this morning to some frozen rain and an iced-over Explorer, but the roads were only wet, thank goodness.
24 continues tomorrow night, opposite the return of Heroes. I had planned to watch 24 and catch the Heroes repeat on SciFi on Friday nights, but I think I'm just going to abandon 24. I love the Jack Bauer Power Hour, and am consistently impressed by the show's writers' ability to end every episode with a cliffhanger, but I'm facing some degree of, I don't know, counter-terrorism exhaustion. I'm tired of seeing Jack face incredible odds and take down the bad guys and find conspiracies everywhere and face his own human weaknesses. It's like why I never got around to seeing The Return of the King: I know what I'm getting into - it's big, it's terrific, it's exciting, but I've seen it before, over and again. Heroes just flat works better for me right now. I'm more interested in reading Iron Man and Teen Titans and Daredevil and JSA than John Le Carre. I'm running Mutants & Masterminds, not Spycraft. All of it's wonderful, but it isn't all interesting.
Time to settle in, read some more ConX, and watch football.