Well, since we had four inches of snow yesterday and haven’t left the house since, I now have to recant my entire last week’s entry. Nice to have a bit of snow though. The kids are naturally delighted. Sounds like at the lower elevations the snow is a bit more sticky, but up here where we live it’s pretty dry and not terribly good snowman snow. Seems to work fine for tossing at each other though.

So did you guys all watch the premier of 24 this week? I mean really, aren’t at least 75% of the country Jack Bauer fans? Also, very nice to see Dr. Julian Bashir from Star Trek DS9 back in action again on 24 (yes, me nerd, I know…). Don’t know where he’s been hiding himself lately.

After Sunday’s ep., I’ve decided that old Jacky boy needs a new nickname. From now on, I’m just going to be referring to him as Jackula. In case you missed it, Jack kills his evil captor guard (there are always lots of those in this show) by biting his neck, presumably snacking on Le Jugular, and then spitting out the big bitten-off chunk onto the floor.

Sorry, but neck gnawing? Really?? Fine, cool if you’re say, the un-dead (I think that vampires should be called post-dead really because aren’t all of us people sashaying through life technically un-dead too? I mean, I don’t feel dead at least 83.267 percent of the time); but noshing on neck when you’re pre-dead? Ewwwwww! Especially without some French bread and a side of pickles. Blech!

Yeah, yeah, I know he wasn’t actually espousing the nutritional value of such a diet but more attempting to avoid that cheery little event we like to call “certain doom.” Maybe he should get some sort of administrative variance for being firmly in the soon-to-be-dead category. And since he just got sprung from a Chinese prison (where they apparently weren’t very hospitable) to come back to the U.S. and volunteer himself as a swap to the bad guys who want to kill him in exchange for the location of a presumed terrorist (the above mentioned Doctor Bashir, who naturally turns out to be a good guy after all), I guess he can kind of be categorized as mostly-dead for a wide variety of reasons. Why do I watch this show again?

You don’t think that spending half a day pondering which category of dead-ness a fictional character has to be in before chomping on someone’s throat is acceptable behavior could be a waste of time, do you? Naaaahh. Me either.

On the less gory side, American Idol started back up last night, and it seems to be just as full of entertainingly talentless people as ever. The first three weeks where they go around the country doing the auditions are just hysterical! Have a great week! Rachel