Year: 2008

New Year’s Eve Marathon

The Shape Of Things To Come

Something Nice Back Home

Cabin Fever

There’s No Place Like Home (Part 1)

There’s No Place Like Home (Part 2)

What the heck, just finished watching the last 5 episodes of Season 4, gonna have to twiddle our thumbs for the next three weeks until Season 5 starts. I just love the photo from Cabin Fever, looks like TDTVS and TDTVS2 had a crossover episode…

For your marathon pleasure I have once again created a Best of the Year page which includes my favorite post for each month. Some months the pickings were slim and others were chock full of picks, but I stuck with one per — Best of 2008.

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Two More

Ji Yeon

Meet Kevin Johnson

Watched two more episodes tonight, numbers 76 & 77 of 82. In the first Ji Yeon the producers got tricky on us. We see Sun giving birth to her baby off island (the show’s title is the new born daughter’s name) and we see Jin, her husband rushing around off island frantically buying a giant stuffed panda and trying to get to the hospital. We are so used to flashforwards in Season 4 that we assume these are taking place together, but in the end we find out that Sun is a member of the Oceanic 6 and is a flashforward to post rescue while Jin is really in flashback and he didn’t get rescued, Hurley, Sun and Ji Yeon visit his grave.

In the second show we find out that Kevin Johnson is in reality Michael who left the island with his son Walt at the end of Season 2. He was my least favorite character and I would have really liked to see him shoot himself, but even though he tries, it won’t happen, he can’t die yet. The “island” won’t let him, whatever that means.

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It’s All Over Now

The Constant

The Other Woman

We watched Episodes 74 & 75 of 82 tonight, so technically we’ve watched this whole week’s worth of shows already and the rate of two a night we will be through with Season 4 by Friday and Season 5 doesn’t start until almost 3 weeks after that.

Episode #74, The Constant, took place on Christmas Eve in Lost time, missed it by 5 days. When we started rewatching them from the beginning, I started on a Monday with the shows spaced so that we would finish up a couple days before the next season started, maybe I should have scheduled them to line up with island time, Season 1 started on September 22, 2004 and Season 4 ends on New Year’s Eve 2004. Maybe next year (as long as when Ben moved the island in time he just jumped exactly in years and didn’t shift days.)

It is almost a good thing because I have really wanted to stop writing the little episode synopsizes, because Season 4 is where the show got far out there (if that was even possible for this show that has been water skiing around a school of sharks looking for a ramp ever since the get go.) The season’s arc was intriguing, we find out that six people got rescued and we find out early on who five of them are (turns out we knew the sixth, but the producers were being cagey) and through out the episodes we see those 5 people scattered amongst several separate locations and circumstances and they are only brought together in the season finale. But several of the goings on leading up to the rescue are like jigsaw puzzle pieces that look like they came from a different puzzle.

We took the tandem out for a couple three miles as a sort of a shakedown cruise for it and us. Things worked well, mechanical and physical, and if the helmet mounted lamp arrives tomorrow as planned we are going to ride the bike to work on New Year’s Eve.

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Fell Off The Wagon

Confirmed Dead

The Economist

Eggtown

We just got through watching Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday’s episodes, numbers 71, 72 & 73 mainly to appease my wife who sort of graciously allowed me to watch a half dozen or so episodes of House on the USA network.

Mr. Fletcher?s Ride

The fog and drizzle of the past 3 days finally cleared and we got in a nice couple mile walk in Hitchcock Woods this morning before the light rain returned. The day was overcast and with all the leaves of the trees the woods seemed flat, no contrast, so I manipulated the image some (better? maybe?) and when the sun did poke out for a while I discovered that two layers of t-shirts and jeans was overdressed. Could have got by on one layer and shorts.

You can tell the end of the year over eating season is over by the amount of flatten your belly schemes are being advertised on TV.

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High Colonic

I used to do it every year, but have slacked off the last couple. Lazy, I guess. But today I went ahead and did it. Formatted C: and fresh installed XP. Went fairly smoothly, but after chastising a co worker who recently reformatted C: for forgetting to save his Favorites, I remembered that, but for got the more important Firefox Bookmarks file. DOH!

I did have a copy on the laptop that was fairly recent and I’ve combined it with the older Favorites files and stirred them together, so now I’m busy deleting duplicates. To prevent this in the future I have signed up for Foxmarks, an add-on for Firefox that syncs and backs up bookmarks.

I walked to the end of the driveway and got the paper this morning and Donna walked to the end of the driveway this afternoon and got the mail, other than that we haven’t left the building.

We have finished all five movies we rented and Hancock which came in a red envelope yesterday. We only watched 2 episodes of Weeds which came yesterday too, but the disc went back in the envelope with the remaining four episodes unwatched.

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Christmas Shopping

Donna and I headed out sort of early this morning to hit the stores and do some Christmas shopping — for next year.

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