A Note to Mark Burnett:

There are two things that, after what, eight, nine episodes? I'm starting to get REALLY EFFING SICK OF.

1.) The sappy, overly dramatic music at the start of challenges.

2.) One team utterly dominating the other one. JUST FUCKING ONCE, I'd like to see both teams evenly matched.

Please see to that as soon as possible. kthxbye

Alias:

Newsflash: I still adore SpyDaddy, and he's not even doing anything particularly special at the moment.

Also, I don't buy for a second that Vaughn is dead; I kind of assume I'm not really supposed to .

Hubby, the former wild fire fighter, has been watching the news of the fires (hopefully this won't cause flashback nightmares). He fought fires in the exact area thirty years ago, and the standard orders then were "We'll fight it at the highway. If it jumps the eight-lane, we'll fight it at the beach. If it jumps the Pacific, well, we're just screwed."

also, he says the longest spot fire on record is 120 miles. A burning branch got blown out to sea and landed on a ship, setting the sails on fire, which made it count as part of the damage from the fire in the hills.

Sigh I wasn't home for Alias and I didn't record it. So don't know when I'll get to see it. Yes, I read all the white font. Spoilage on Alias matters not.

If you're walking around with a steaming hot coffee on the 5 or the 4 train at 8:30 a.m., I would hope to hell the cop would give you a summons because you have no right to do that. It's not right and it's not courteous to your fellow passengers," said MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow.

Has Peter Kalikow never bought coffee to go? Is he unaware of the plastic lids?

I was watching NY1 the other day and a board member was saying something similar. "It's rude if you're on a subway and you're carrying a cup of coffee-- one jolt and you'll spill hot coffee all over some poor commuter!" It's an indictment of how the people on the board of the MTA don't actually ride the fucking subway. Because that's why they don't see a need to travel between cars. Or think that people are walking around sipping from coffee mugs on the train.

A planet where apes evolved from men?!?

Wild gorillas spotted using tools for first time

Scientists astounded to see apes make their way with walking sticks

Sean:

Yeah, come on. Those teams are evenly matched, sure. This season started out looking really cool, and I like the tough challenges. But come on. It's not like they randomly picked teams - it shouldn't be so lopsided already. If something doesn't shake up soon, booor-ring.

Shiny! I just thought to check the paper and see if it mentioned the big fireball thing I saw when I was driving home from work.

Meteor seen by lots of people on my coast. [link]

I'm looking forward to telling my son that yes indeed it was a meteor.

See how wired I am? I saw the word fireball and almost headed right to latimes.com.

Twitchy, twitchy, twitchy.

Tired. Went to an extra krav class today -- this week I'm training at my non-injured rate, plus one.

I'm not very bright.

I'm now fairly certain that Weather.com has their temperature gauge mounted inside the ice locker at the Coffee Bean.

That's where I keep my pajamas!

It's hot.

I don't smell fire. But then, I am smoking.

I am debating on taking a sleeping pill. The doctor prescribed them, because I have been awake like that girl in The Ring, and will soon emerge from a well to suck out your soul.

This morning, I woke up a little after four. The sleeping pill, she didnt so much work, except then I started to fall asleep around six when the alarm went off.

I just wanna get a good night's sleep. Bastard brain.