Run! It's a moose!

I've fallen, hard, for Justified on F/X. I didn't want to. As far as US Marshal series go, my heart is still held captive by Jeff Fahey in The Marshal and Carla Gugino in Karen Sisco . They set the bar and were both cancelled too soon.

But Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens does a great job, and I thought the show "felt" familiar--then I saw the credits; it's based on an Elmore Leonard short story and he's listed as one of the executive producers. So it has that kind of off-kilter weird story vibe that I loved so much about Karen Sisco, as well as that smart-but-slow-talking hero I adored in The Marshal.

The supporting cast, especially Nick Searcy, Givens' long-suffering new boss, are uniformly great. The show isn't very dark, though that might change when we see Givens' career-criminal dad. Or it might not.

But it gets my recommendation, for what that's worth.

...literally, you can smell--and for while this morning--see the smoke from the Oklahoma/North Texas fires. The wind changed direction overnight and it's now blowing in from the North, bringing that lovely "just-burned-grass" smell. Hopefully this next front will bring us some rain.

Watched The Unusuals. Didn't realize it had Joan from Joan of Arcadia, Michael from Lost, and Penn from Angel in it. I enjoyed it quite a lot, and I've added it to my watch list. The writing is very good and the acting is top-notch. Worth seeing, before they get tired of it not making a bazillion dollars from the get-go and pull the plug on it.

I've also gotten into Dollhouse. The first episode was bad, but I mainlined the next 6-7 last weekend and it's really very interesting, and I can watch Eliza Dukshu all day, frankly. She's obviously having a swell old time in the role.

Since I took an extra day off, I decided to take care of some business. I called and cancelled one of my credit cards that I had emptied on a balance transfer. The CSR was very nice, and tried to do her job (get me to transfer the balance back for a very low rate), but I held firm. This is the card that raised my rate to insane levels after a late payment and wouldn't lower them again. Now, I no longer make late payments, but the attitude I always got from them still puts my teeth on edge, over 6 months later. So I very politely said no.

Time Warner, my old cable provider, tried calling me with the "you only have basic cable! OMG! We must help you upgrade!1!!1!!" spiel. When I informed him that I had in fact cancelled my Time Warner and was going with AT&T, he got rather snotty. Why did I leave? I wasn't going to pay TWC $120 a year to rent their box. This kid practically called me a liar (we don't charge that!), so I just repeated myself and hung up. C'mon, people, get your facts straight before you cold-call, 'kay?

Then I went to cancel my TiVo. I really, really didn't want to do this. I luv my TiVo! But it just wasn't working with the new content provider, so with a heavy heart, I called. I'm glad I did. The very nice lady with a very strong Deep South accent (mine came back after 60 seconds on the phone with her), walked me through everything I can do right now, with only 1.5 hands (I may have to rearrange cables later), and made me promise to call back when I was able to move equipment, since they knew how to set everything up with AT&T, which makes me very happy. The AT&T DVR is...ok. But it is most emphatically NOT TiVo. So, I still have TiVo.

Washed my right hand in the shower this morning; still looks icky. TWELVE stitches, running partway up my palm. Bruises on my palm look like I had a handful of dark blue ink at one point. No bleeding, and no real pain, though I imagine that's mainly due to keeping my wrist straight. The few times it flexed a little in the shower I sure knew about it! My handwriting is awful; I'm trying to write around a hunk of plastic across my hand. Everyone who has to deal with my marked-up copy at work will just have to be patient for a couple of weeks.

And it took me 5 minutes to put on my bra this morning. Hmph.

My TiVo cut off about a minute before the end. Can anyone tell me what Catherine said to Grissom at the end? And what happened afterwards?

(Greg was so adorable tonight!) 

Lost? Who needs Lost?  There are much better shows out there. Heroes and Jericho, in my opinion.