Hooray for the internets in Your House, Sara!!

The internet is a big part of feeling in the right place, even if it is dialup.

I have a sudden and strong craving for oatmeal cookies. Too lazy to bake, and too cheap to buy, though. That'll larn me.

Yeah, it was kinda lonely the first night when first my parents weren't answering and then my brother and Boise friend was travelling and I had no internet. Luckily, I was able to reach msbelle.

And then everyone started calling and I learned I do indeed now have call waiting and I don't know how to use it.

Honestly, were I to do it again (please no,) I would have had someone over to keep me company until bedtime. I was keyed up and needed distraction from all the damned boxes.

AC is in the house. On the living room floor. I am DEFINITELY going to have someone help haul the 65 lb units up the stairs and install them. The 45 lb one I might be able to manage, but....just getting them from my car up the front steps about killed me. And I need extension cords. The Despot didn't have the lengths I needed. I guess I might have to daisychain them.

Other updates: most of the clothes unpacked. Daily use and favorite shoes out. Closets aren't too bad (I'm going to return one garment rack, and the other might eventually move into the laundry,) but I need shelves. Or I could just wait for the antique washtable mom wants me to have. I think she *really* is planning on shipping out the furniture from their house this summer. I can walk through the front room without dodging boxes. Furniture isn't in its final location, but is taking shape. Basement is a disaster of stuff lying on the floor in boxes and filthy cleaning rags.

Is it wrong that on Chuck, I started tearing up when the force recon showed up? That doesn't seem quite right.

I feel like it would be scary alone in a house, at the beginning -- it's creepy enough in a new apartment, with everything all unfamiliar and boxes and everything. But yay! Home.

No, that's not wrong at all. I have much luck for Chuck right now. I don't understand how it can be threatened with cancellation...even though I know quite a few people who I think would love it who are not watching it.

DH just subcontracted me to design a billing statement for his employer. What do you guys like to see in an insurance statement?

Alan Sepinwall's review mentions salad shooters! but his conclusion kind of broke my heart:

This is my 13th season as a professional TV critic. The very first pilot I ever watched on the job was CBS' "EZ Streets." It blew me away. It was essentially canceled after two episodes aired. I learned an early, painful lesson: this job will break your heart if you let it. I gave in and got hurt a few more times in those early years, but by the time "Freaks and Geeks" rolled around, I had trained myself to spot the heartbreakers early, and to create enough professional distance so that, when the inevitable cancellation came, I could shrug and say, "Well, I'm glad I got to see as much of it as I did."

With "Chuck," though, I'm having a hard time doing that. Even in this splintered TV universe, even in that suicidal timeslot, it just doesn't make sense to me that "Chuck" hasn't done better than it has, and that it's future should be so precarious at this point. "Chuck" should be a hit. Maybe it could still be a hit. But in today's narrowcasting landscape, at Ben Silverman's NBC (where product integration seems at least as important as ratings), maybe that doesn't matter. It was a good show in its first season. It's become quite a bit more than that this year. And these last few episodes have taken the series into new creative stratosphere.

Distance be damned, I'm not ready to say goodbye to "Chuck" yet. I wrote the open letter. I took my family to Subway tonight. I'm going to keep a good thought between now and next Monday. And if I hear anything concrete before then, I'll let you know. And until then, I imagine I'm going to be watching the

scene a lot.

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that link is spoilery for the finale.

Augh, they're killing me! (I'm just finishing the episode now.)

Cash, clear explanations of what the insider jargon covers. One of my big frustrations when I was getting quotes was they didn't use a standardized set of terms from company to company and I didn't know what they meant so it was hard to compare. Line by line itemization.

But I'm anal and like being given all the info up front.