I've got both eps on my DVR now. Given your description, I both very much want to see them and am tempted to delete without watching. Will probably watch. Soon. Ish.

No, no, do watch. Just pick a time solidly after you've digested one meal but just as solidly before you're hungry for the next. You really, really don't want to watch this show in even remote proximity to the consumption of food.

I hate when security questions are like "Place you met your spouse! Place you honeymooned! Your best friend at age 7! Your favorite movie/novel/color!" because I either don't have or won't remember most of those.

I do Tim's taxes, and one of the security questions is "Name of your first girlfriend/boyfriend." So I made it my name. (This was a couple of years ago.) So this year he tried to log in to check the status of his return, and for some reason had to answer the security question. And he kept trying the name of his REAL first girlfriend. I heard him muttering about the security question, and finally I asked, "Is this the security question about your first girlfriend?"

"Yeah," he said, "and I don't know if I'm spelling her name wrong, or what, but it isn't working."

"That's because *I* do your taxes," I said. "So the answer is MY NAME."

Booyah.

Is anyone watching or discussing "Hannibal" anywhere? Bryan Fuller show, with Caroline Dhavernas, Laurence Fishburne and the promise of Gina Torres at some point, and an explicit Wonderfalls shout-out about halfway through the second episode.

See, I like all of those actors, and I'm all about a Wonderfalls shoutout, but I cannot handle the creepy. No way. Plus it's on opposite Elementary, and I still watch TV in the 1970s, where the concept of recording one show while I watch another is CRAZY SCIENCE FICTION.

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You really, really don't want to watch this show in even remote proximity to the consumption of food.

Yeah, that pretty much validates my decision. Egad.

Food warning, noted.

I'm kinda concerned about disturbing images - if it's the last thing (or like, the most powerful image) I see at night, I find myself lingering on those images or even importing them into dreams. Given that, would you recommend daylight-only viewing?

Hey, people have good news! And that is wonderful!

I haven't seen Hannibal yet, but I will have to give it a whirl; I like the creepy. I knew Fuller was doing it, but I didn't realize Dhavernas and Fishburne were in it!

Oof, I am TIRED. And I feel like I have been beaten; I think I shall eat something bland and take to my bed with an old book and the hope of pain-free sleep.

The largest animal I have encountered in the free and wild was a razorback pig while hiking in Arkansas, and that is plenty for me.

Given that, would you recommend daylight-only viewing?

YES. It is absolutely nightmare fuel. I am in fact right now watching an episode of New Girl as a palate cleanser, and I'm pretty sure I'll get at least one freaked-out late night wake-up out of what I've already seen.

But I'm definitely going to rewatch (during daylight hours). It's utterly visually *stunning*, and wow the acting.

Strix, your poor abdomen/gall bladder area! It sucks that you had to go to the ER, but I'm glad you got the good drugs. And the surgery is not a huge deal. My dad had it and was home by noon.

My dad his yanked in pre-laproscopic days, and it was still, according to him, no big deal. I'm cool with getting it done, but am highly affronted that I had ANOTHER attack -- I was really, really, REALLY hoping to avoid that!

Ah, well. DH was quite the rock star, dashing home from work, letting me squeeze his hand into jelly and rubbing my back for 2 hours, and being, in his terms, my "errand horse."

I think I will wait to watch Hannibal until post-surgery. Too many parts...

meara, 4 weeks. 1 bag. (The 4 weeks prior will have an additional bag, but it will be full of clothes that will be tossed before I leave Sweden)

Kate, I'll be at hostels, so I plan to wash them a time or two a week. The 1 bag edict is the bigger issue.

Thanks, Trudy.

YES. It is absolutely nightmare fuel.

Okay, also noted.

Strix, sorry about the insult added to injury. Glad you're doing better & DH was there for fetching & carrying (& comforting).