Of Swords and Parasols

The bad:

1.  I'm watching season 4 of Bones.  It has reached the point where I'm surprised when the killer isn't a woman killing someone for cheating on her or planning to leave her.  But at least it stopped with Booth's angsty hallucinations.  (Also, I now understand why people who started with this season were complaining about the mansplainin'.)

2.  I'm giving up on the kdrama Time Between Dog and Wolf.  I made it to halfway through ep 11, but the last few episodes have been on the tedious side.  It started a bit dull then turned entertaining for a while, if largely unintentionally.  (Overwrought melodrama and the absolute worst spying I recall ever seeing in fiction.)  By the end of the second episode, the heroine was already established as her main role being that of the Object of Contention between the two guys, and at this point, they aren't even pretending she's anything put an object to be pulled between the various men, and the two guys have both pretty much completely lost me.  Also, the plot is kinda dull, in spite of the spies and triads and amnesia and such.  But the acting was pretty decent, and it had very pretty production values.

3.  This afternoon, they announced that the plumbing in my building at work was going to be shut off "anywhere from three hours to a week."  AGONY!  I can't even be in my apartment if the water is out for an hour.

The good:

1.  bookcloseouts.com is having another sale. $1.99 for paperbacks and $2.99 for hardbacks.  Not sure when it ends.

2.  deepdiscount.com has tons of BBC stuff 60% off.

3.  My parents has been adopted by a black and white kitten.  She's housebroken, but they can't find her owners.  According to my mother, her name is "Smudge" because the white marks look like smudges.  According to my father, her name is "The Damned Kitten."  Yes, she apparently spends most of her time in his lap, getting petted.  Patches is training her to be properly obedient to the Queen of the House, and last week had to herd Dad to rescue her when she got her paws stuck in the curtains about 7 feet from the ground.

So, 8:30 am Friday, the phone rings and it's Dad, making sure I "remember" that they're going out of town then until wednesday.  I use quotes becausethe last I was told 2 weeks ago, they were probably leaving for the weekend...not letting me know is likely why there was $25 under the kleenex box on top of the itinerary when I got there Friday night.(wasn't really necessary...)

Anyway, internet went poof sometime yesterday and didn't come back up before I left for work today.  Annoying, but temporary, and it's letting me get DVDs watched.  Actually, I yhalf think Squeaker accidentally unplugged something while jumping down from the computer desk.

So, resuming regular internet availability sometime on Weds, unless it comes back up between now and then.  Until then, work only.

Also, watched the rest of the wacky/offbeat Japanese mystery series Trick 2 and adored it.

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