The Long Good Friday

[caddyman]

Ah bank holidays, don'tcha just love 'em? A good long lie in followed by a lazy day of nothing in particular.

Last night was an evening of downloaded telly watching. Episode 17 of House season 3 - the best episode for a while, followed by the first three episodes of Heroes, which looks interesting even if the flicking between multiple story lines is already getting a little wearing. Furtle gave up about twenty minutes in to the first episode and went to bed, but Dave and I soldiered on. Promising, but not yet the classic everyone seems to think it is. I daresay that as we become more familiar with the characters and their abilities enjoyment will increase.

And yes, despite the subtitles, Hiro is the best character by some distance. Only nerds deserve super powers - they have already researched what to do with them.

Lunch soon, I think and then who knows? I have an entire week of nothing to do ahead of me.

Luxury.

Comments

[ysharros.livejournal.com]

"the classic everyone seems to think it is"

Not everyone does. It's barely passable to begin with, and improves to not bad towards the end of the season. It's far too smugly self-conscious a lot of the time, however, and I suspect the authors think they're a great deal cleverer than they really are. Furtle could miss all 6 first episodes and pick up without having missed a great deal at all -- to begin with it's mostly smoke and mirrors and what seemed to me to be a misguided attempt to seem arty and/or clever. There's a difference between arty and "no content" that they don't grasp until the end of the season. Character development is patchy and inconsistent, but this again improves. I'd almost think there are different people involved at the start and at the end of this first season.

I am not, as you can see, a big fan -- and express this perhaps more vehemently because I don't understand the cult that has sprung up over one mediocre, not even that original show. I guess the cheerleader has nice tits, or something.

[ysharros.livejournal.com]

Addendum -- re that nuke-LJ-cluster map of yours. I read your stuff and comment quite frequently -- does this mean I need to actually visit your pages, rather than just see your stuff through my friends pages, for your mappy thing to take it into account?

Not that I intend to make a LARGE RED BLOB of Dallas or anything.

[oldnick.livejournal.com]

Ah bank holidays, don'tcha just love 'em? The roads were nice and quiet at 07:25 this morning, especially when compared with yesterday's chaos.

Still - plenty of time to pick up the parcel that promised to await me at the sorting office - until I read the small print on the red postcard (closed Friday for Bank Holiday).

Still - when I read the postcard carefully, the package which travelled from Abingdon to Coventry to my letterbox in under 20 hours will be available, not in 4 hours, as in the olden days for collection, but in 48 hours, after it has spent a night or two at my local sub-post office. In practice, this means 48 hours, ignoring Sundays and Bank Holidays, before an overnight pick-up from the sub post-office returns it to the sorting office. Arrived 09:30 Thursday, available when the sorting office public counter opens next Tuesday (at best) 07:00, and more likely Wednesday.

Ah bank holidays, don'tcha just love 'em?

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

well that's progress for you