JdotMI's LiveJournal

It's been a few days now (okay, two) so I think I can now post about this. But I'll be nice and cut it.

( The Pre-Show Party )

( The Second Coming )

( The Butterfly Effect )

This week, Heroes beat Pushing Daisies as my favorite show of the week. PD is still the best show on TV, but tonight's installment wasn't the grand slam the previous installments have been. Still a really damn good episode, though! I was a bit weirded out by the apparent change in the apartment complex that happened today, but maybe it was always like that and it just wasn't obvious. Oh well.

Going to go back to City of now. I'm a bit too addicted right now.

*sigh* Heroes needs to make up it's mind. ( It's having Sophmoritis. )

Played some City of Villains last night. Got Kalleesta up to 38 so now she has Fluffy! Did some Trick or Treating after, but it's slow going since she doesn't have a lot of badges left to get. She's got to get the Spirits and Werewolves and that's it I think. Maybe the Vampires. And the Giant Monsters. And the new badges from this year. Okay, so she ahs a lot of badges left, but she got the costume slot already and it's been slow as hell to get costume salvage drops for her.

Tested all three of my big guns on the Training Room to make sure they would all have access to the Flashback system. They do. Kung Ru has it because she's done every story arc and badge mission so far. Hidden Justice has the badge about the Rikti Ambassador or some such (there's time travel involved in it, so yeah). Kalleesta, of course, fought the time travelling Doctor about seven billion times already, so of course she has it. The system is fun. Being autoexemped into fetus-level and looking at three full bars of greyed out powers? HILARIOUS! Time to break out the temp powers, people! Kung Ru got the Isolator badge on test. It took for freakin' EVER. But it's done and all is well in the world. I may go back to test and try out some flashbacks, but I don't want to do it all on test and then not want to do it again on Live. You know how it is.

Well, getting back to work now. Since, ya know, it took me an hour to write this and post it due to actually doing said work. :-p

I re-watched "Pie-lette" last night on ABC's website. For those not in the know, that's the name of the premier episode of Pushing Daisies. Totally feel good television. I stand by my thought that it's the best thing on TV this season.

Hopefully watching Heroes tonight. Depends on how satyr_mi is feeling.

Need to do ToT'ing in City of Heroes/Villains. I've got a lot of characters to get badges and costumes and whatnot for. Plus it'll be nice to restock my SG bases with costume salvage bits.

Trying to decide what I want to make for dinner. I'm thinking I'm going to make the pot-pie-esque chicken and rice dish again, because that was damn good the first time. Might make a loaf of bread to use for breakfasts for the rest of the week, too.

Pushing Daisies continues to be the best new show we have on our Tivo. Seriously. It's funny, it's dark, it's light, it's fast paced, it's emotional, it's smart. It's Dead Like Me on crack! If you are not watching this show you are seriously missing out.

We're quite astounded with how much we have on Tivo that we don't want to part with. We've never had this many shows, especially this many shows we want to watch together, in a single season. Pushing Daisies, Bionic Woman, Reaper, Chuck, and Heroes. Five hours of television per week that isn't on HGTV that we watch together. Add to that my show (Smallville) and satyr_mi's shows (Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, and Dirty Sexy Money) and you have a gigantoid segment of our lil 40 hour Tivo that is accounted for. Plus, carebear_flare likes to watch a few of these shows with us, too. It's psychotic!!

The problem is... we don't have a dual tuner. We need one badly. That way we can get Ugly Betty added to our list as opposed to having to wait for it on DVD or on marathons over the weekends. And we can also get Bionic Woman and Private Practice at the same time. Wednesday nights are particularly brutal for us. There aren't many shows on that we don't want to watch on Wednesday.

On a less TV related note, I paid the remainder of my rent yesterday, which only came out to around $8 somehow. I'm not complaining, but it means we've been overpaying somehow. We need to get that sorted out before next month's rent payment so we don't have it happen again. To celebrate being less broke than we thought, we all went out and partook of the Neverending Pasta Bowl at Olive Garden and we all proceeded to eat way too much food. A quick, and pricy, Meijer run followed, a drive home, some tv watching and sleep, and I'm still not hungry yet. Seriously!

I'm really excited about carebear_flare's new job at the Cage, and I'm hoping he can maneuver it into a permanent position. He even got a call from Borders for an interview in the AP department! When it rains it pours, I guess!

Well, I'm gonna go play something. Either Civ IV (which just got patched) or Sims 2 (which I haven't yet patched) or Blue Dragon (which I downloaded the Hard Mod aka New Game + for) or City of Villains where I'm slowly becoming addicted to a Brute.

Or maybe I'll go be a shameless flirt online. I've been known to do that.

We watched Heroes and Chuck last night. Not sure what I think of Chuck. It was okay, but it wasn't anything that made me go "I must watch this at all times". I'll watch a few more to see if it sticks. Heroes was good. Still waiting to see what's up with the rest of the characters, but I'll be patient for now.

I'm purposely not finishing Bioshock quite yet. I could probably finish in an hour or so, but I'm trying to not spend all day in front of the TV when I get home. So, I played Sims 2 instead after dinner and TV watching. :-p Because, ya know, that's such a better way to use my time.

Well, time to concentrate on more work, because I have a ton to do today.

I'm not dead yet! Although, several of you knew that since I'm still all commenty and whatnot on journals. But, anyway, I was on vacation last week (as evidenced by my last friends-locked post), and I spent the entirety of it trying to relax. I got myself nicely readdicted to Civilization IV (the new expansion has made the game a lot of fun), Sims 2 (another new expansion came out), and Blue Dragon. Yes, Blue Dragon is an XBox 360 game. Yes, we bought an XBox 360 Elite. ANYRATE, it's fun. And satyr_mi got me mildly addicted to Forza 2, but that's neither here nor there. He's addicted to Bioshock, but, really, can you blame him? I got into an alpha test for a game which is turning out to be pretty fun. It's hopefully going into beta soon and should be released by the end of October. If you enjoyed Diablo II at all you should really like this game. I sorta OD'd on it while on vacation, so I've taken a couple days to play other games now. I got back on the City of Heroes/Villains bandwagon as well. My Mastermind has had a bit too much fun in the Rikti War Zone and is now finishing up her story arcs so that she can hopefully hit 40 soon.

We bought Season 1 of Heroes and, just as I expected, satyr_mi is thoroughly addicted. The the point of watching two disks with me in one day. We rarely watch TV on DVD together, so this was nice. We do watch a lot of HGTV together. Design Star Season 2 is having it's finale this Sunday, and Kim better freakin' win.

In terms of work, I just had a glowing mid-year review (we do reviews based on the fiscal year, not calendar year) so I'm in a pretty good mood regarding that. And all of our training stuff has been set up so we can work on taking courses that will allow us to get actual certs, so that'll be nice to dive in to. Of course, right now I have to dive back in to work, so I'm going to post this and be on my merry way