Ok, I guess it isn’t really the middle of the television season, per se. But really with how things seem to run these days, how could one truly pin down a mid-point? Some shows started their season as early as September while others started in January – still others seem to be coming back in March. So who knows. The bottom line is that I feel like reviewing the shows that I watch in summary. So here I go: Read more “Mid-season Status Report”
Month: February 2009
If Only I Had Insomnia
Tonight is the fifth night that I have been awake until 3:00 AM or later and it is catching up with me. I wish that I could say that I’ve been up doing something fun. I wish that I could say that I’ve been up doing something productive and worthwhile. I would even be content to be able to say that I’ve been up because I wasn’t tired and couldn’t get to sleep or because my kids have kept me up. No, unfortunately this series of late nights have been work-related and the majority of that work has been waiting and monitoring. Read more “If Only I Had Insomnia”
Fool Moon
After defeating a demon and a powerful sorcerer in the process of investigating some bizarre murders in Storm Front, Jim Butcher charges into book 2 at full throttle. In Fool Moon, Dresden finds himself up against another type of supernatural creature – this time it is werewolves. And where the first book saw a slow schism forming between Dresden and his friend in the police force, this book slowly brings them back together. Read more “Fool Moon”
Back to Normal – OW!
The good news is that after 6 days, my wife is finally home from the hospital. The lesion on her knee is shrinking and she is slowly regaining normal mobility. The bad news is that I now have a small lesion on my arm. I can’t exactly sit here and blame her – in hindsight I was likely the carrier to begin with. I had already had a couple such lesions that I dealt with and moved on. Maybe it is something that I inherited from my father, but it didn’t really occur to me to seek medical attention over the matter. I was acutely aware of the wounds (they seemed like nasty boils) and I would monitor them, treat them as it seemed appropriate, and at times when I considered that I might need to actually see someone about it, I’d decide to wait another day to see if it got better. And gradually it did. Read more “Back to Normal – OW!”
Mr. Mom
I apologize to those few readers I have for my sporadic and infrequent posting as of late. For much of my recent absence, the issue has mostly been that I’ve been busy with work and too drained at the end of the day to sit and write something. But for the past week I’ve had a more serious excuse for my lack of presence – My wife was checked into the hospital on Tuesday for a bad staph infection in her knee that turned out to be MRSA. Read more “Mr. Mom”