ratings news for Friday series:

More second-week slippage in the ratings on Friday night: CBS’ A Gifted Man, CSI: NY, Blue Bloods, and Fox’s Fringe fell from their fall schedule debuts last week, while other shows held steady.

CBS won the night with freshman drama Gifted (8.1 million viewers, 1.2 adults 18-49 rating) down 14 percent. CSI: NY (10 million, 1.6) and Bloods (11.1 million, 1.8) were both down around 10 percent.

Fox had Kitchen Nightmares (4 million, 1.6) and Fringe (3.1 million, 1.2), the latter off 20 percent, while The CW’s Nikita (1.8 million, 0.6) and Supernatual (1.8 million, 0.7) remained flat.

Also airing on Friday: NBC’s Dateline (6.2 million, 1.6) and ABC’s 20/20 (4 million, 1.2).

Did a little misc cleaning and shredded or filed All The Paper. I should go drop stuff off at Goodwill next.

Ooh, shredding and filing All the Paper is a good project. <flylady likes carrots>And in line with October's "deal with paper clutter" focus!</flylady>

I am disappoint. Two of my students are getting baptized today and I was supposed to drive up to see it. But it is raining like the blazes (wait, do the blazes rain? Probably not.) and so we can't go. Not only are our dirt roads already holding water, but the one path to the church has a deep wash that was flooding last week, with much less rain than this. So. We're sending a note, and we'll bring them gifts when we see them at school (hopefully tomorrow, although rain is predicted all this week).

However, that does mean I have the day to do stuff! And the house is mostly clean from Friday's guests since we were both out of the house the entire day yesterday. Although I have failed pizza detritus that I couldn't deal with yesterday. But a rainy Sunday is a perfect puttering around the house day! Kettle's on already! And the birds are fed and the rain barrels dealt with, so there shouldn't need to be any more flapping around in the cold rain today.

And in line with October's "deal with paper clutter" focus!

Woo hoo!

Oh, that's too bad about the rain, Liese.

Sunday is my one day a week where I get to sleep until I wake up. I slepy till 8:45. Heaven.

Now I am fully fed and sunblocked and am off to do battle with the front yard, which has been invaded by lutherans weeds galore.

We were talking about well dressed Goths, so of course you came up.

Awww!

This vacation with Drew and Kristin has been EXACTLY what I needed. Going home is going to be weird.

We cleaned the house yesterday because we had friends over for dinner and now I'm enjoying hanging out in my clean house! I love that. We seriously need to have people over more often.

We slept super late and went for a short bike ride. It is cold like fall out there! And grey. But it's nice cuppa tea weather. Now Bob is getting ready to leave for a week in Bloomington/Normal (and then coming back here thursday night and going back out there next Sunday through Wednesday night). Meh. I'll catch up on my stories but I'll miss him.

This vacation with Drew and Kristin has been EXACTLY what I needed.

Going home is going to be weird.

Is this where I mention the lobbying from Certain People to get us to move to L.A.? I feel like it is.

(Which I have to admit, is a much more tempting idea then I would have first thought.)

Except The Orb lives in L.A. I didn't think you got along with The Orb.