Tricia Tanaka is Dead

The number 57 is my favorite number and episode 57 of 82 has to be my favorite LOST episode. And that is partly because my favorite character is Hurley and this episode is about him. The first thing we get is a flashback that shows Hurley suffers from the same fate as most our our survivors do, father issues, to wit, he leaves him and his mother at an early age. Off-island we get a bribed psychic and a meteor destroying a fast food restaurant.

While on-island Hurley, with Vincent the dog’s help, discovers an overturned VW van leftover from Dharma. The van’s mummified driver is removed, along with some flat, warm Dharma beer, and Hurley tries to start it – no go, dead battery. But with Charlie riding shotgun, he get Sawyer and Jin to push them down a steep hill to get the van started. It does, and when it does, the 8-track player does too and Three Dog Night’s Shambala blasts from the speakers.

William & Mary

We have been watching a British TV show called William & Mary. Cute little show that is about a widower with two kids that meets a single mom with two kids through a dating service. They have a complicated life full of mirth and pathos, partly because he is a mortician and she is a midwife, party because all the kids are teen aged and partly because, well that’s life.

Netflix has 3 discs available with 4 episodes on each which encompasses 2 seasons. They don’t call them seasons tough, kind of hard to when there are only 6 episodes for each one. They call them series. Trouble is the all that is available from Netflix is Series 1 and 2, not the third and final one, you can get it in England though. I could buy it and have it shipped here, but $30 seems a bit much to spend for something that I will have to rip to remove the region coding and rerecord to a DVD to watch it here. May still do it…

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Stranger in a Strange Land

Episode 9 of Season 3 is number 56 of 82 and is a Jack episode. In the off-island flash back we see him vacationing in Thailand where he meets a mysterious (is there any other kind on this show?) local woman who helps him fly a kite, has sex with him, looks into his soul and she tells him he is a leader and a great man, but this makes him lonely, frightened, and angry and he makes her tattoo Chinese characters on his arm to that effect.

On island he strikes a bargain with Ben that he will help doctor his now infected back to prevent further damage he is prevents Juliet from being executed for killing someone while helping Sawyer and Kate escape. One of he others who speaks Chinese tells Jack his tattoo means, “He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us.”

Lazy Sunday

We almost didn’t go out at all today, except for me walking into the front yard early to get the paper.

We threatened a walk in the woods…

But didn’t. The picture above is from yesterday’s running around, the photo is not the best as I only had time to take 3 shots before he hid on me and plus I was using the digital zoom to get close.

Finally around three o’clock I decided to back the Emperor out of the garage and wax him. With me out of her hair Donna got down to writing out most of the rest of the Christmas cards. When I was done waxing I put the MAZDA & MIATA badges back on the car, it was easier than having to get the wax residue out of the little holes in the bumper. In the fading daylight we took a short drive around town to naturally blow off the rest of the wax dust that had adhered to the car due to the static charge created by rubbing a cotton cloth on a metal object in low humidity air. We mailed the Christmas cards, so go ahead and wait by your mailbox.

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Creepy Nutcracker

If you have small children it may be best if you don’t let them check the mail for the next few weeks, unless of course, unlike me, you don’t think this year’s Christmas Nutcrackers Stamps are creepy.

We went out this afternoon and cleaned the rest of the leaves off the driveway and sidewalks and such. Afterward I pulled the car out of the garage and gave it a washing. It was pretty dirty from the rains of a couple weeks ago and the drenching it got last Saturday on the trip back from HHI. Maybe tomorrow I’ll pull it back out and give it a wax.

For the first time in a while we went for a bike ride today. At first we were going to ride our single bikes this afternoon, but changed it to the tandem tonight. We went out around 7 PM when it was fully dark and cruised a couple neighborhoods looking at Christmas lights.

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Thanks, I Think?

When we got home from work tonight, we noticed that someone had raked the front yard. Didn’t clean the driveway or do the small side strip on the other side of the driveway, just the front part. It is not much because about half the yard is landscaped as a natural area, but it would take a person a half hour or so to do the job. There was a nice neat pile of the raked leaves in the street. Very strange. No other yard on either side of us was clean, nor across the street either. Did someone get that far before realizing they were at the wrong house on the wrong street? Is it like those wash your windshield shakedowns at intersections, is someone going to knock on our door tomorrow and want $20?

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Flashes Before Your Eyes

(55/82) This was considered a odd departure because we get a flashback that happens during a flashback, but is it really? When Desmond turned the fail safe key and destroyed the hatch he was sent back 5 years earlier when he was dating Penny. He can remember some of the things that happened, a sort of deja vu, and he stumbles on Charlie as a street musician and remembers him from the island, but Charlie doesn’t know him.

On island in the present Desmond can see the future, not all of it and not at will, but he gets random bits at random times. Right now he can see how Charlie dies. He can prevent it, but the universe will course correct, and eventually it will happen.