Heather got a raise? Sweet! And congrats on the apartment too, sj. That's always a stressful issue.

I want them to do a season of 24 that's just stand-alones. Jack just gets some day where twenty-four crooks try to pull some stupid crap, one after another, while he just happens to be in the vicinity, catching his breath after clocking the last guy.

That would be funny. I really want 24 to do a couple of episodes wherein Jack is stuck in traffic the whole time. Stuff keeps happening in the other storylines, but everytime we cut to Jack he's not moving, slamming the steering wheel and cursing at the other drivers. And an episode where he takes a nap.

Woo-hoo to Heather's raise! And sick days and vacation days! Yay!

I want them to do a season of 24 that's just stand-alones. Jack just gets some day where twenty-four crooks try to pull some stupid crap, one after another, while he just happens to be in the vicinity, catching his breath after clocking the last guy.

For some reason, this made me picture a group of twenty-four crooks, dressed like minions of some villian on the Batman TV show. They all wear gray sweatshirts. The first crook that Jack faces has a big '1' on his sweatshirt, the second a '2', etc....

(I never quite figured out what definition of "evil" would include suburban Pennsylvania but not New Orleans.)

Mispronunciation of "pecan"?

t runs away

Leaping into Natter to announce that according to my Simpsons 2005 Fun Calendar, today is Orlando Bloom's 28th Birthday.

Heather got a raise? Sweet!

I did! Not as much as I wanted, but $30 more a week isn't chump change.

I did! Not as much as I wanted, but $30 more a week isn't chump change.

Dude, that's a Wonderfalls DVD set every week right there.

Good thing, because I want to buy a couple of sets for friends I know who are going through some hard times.

::scrunches nose::

Actress Nicolette Sheridan is suffering from a bout of the flu - which was exacerbated after she jumped into her cold swimming pool naked to save her dog. The Desperate Housewives star has been struck down with the ailment for more than a week, and she blames it on her ignorance about her 12-week-old golden retriever Oliver's swimming abilities - and the fact she was cleaning her home in the nude. After returning from a Christmas trip to Aspen, Colorado, Sheridan cleaned off the puppy in her swimming pool after he got himself dirty in a rose pot - and her actions gave the pooch new ideas on causing mischief. She says, "The next thing you know, he goes outside and he's right back in that pool again. Now I think he's drowning! I run naked into the cold pool. I was cleaning (my house) naked. It's (a normal thing to do) when I'm feverish... So I saved the dog, but little did I know at 12 weeks old they can swim. But you know what, I'll fall for all of his tricks because I'm madly in love with him.

Oh, yeah. Too much celebrity information.