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The best show of 2007 finally comes back after the Strike.

Srsly, this show rocked my world.  I know that everyone went crazy for Mad Men (as did I), but Damages simple told the better story.

Catch up with the first season summary below.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Apparently, Eleven (DW) is being announced tomorrow evening in the UK.  They’re trying to keep it a surprise until it’s broadcast.

This means that I really need to watch where I surf until it’s been downloaded.  Not that it would be the end of the world if it were spoiled, but I’d love to be completely surprised.

I wonder if they’ll announce the companion too…  I’ve been loving the Jennifer Saunders and Catherine Zeta-Jones rumors.

…went down to the car.  The hood popped like *that*.

Joy.  I’m not dealing with it until tomorrow or later.

Came back today, since the Parental Units were off to Arizona to watch the Bowl Game and my brother was in Hawaii, and I’m glad to be home.  Haven’t quite unpacked everything, but I figured that I needed some time to unwind after the 12-hour ordeal.

I love the drive from Chicago to Kansas.  It’s so calming, except for the traffic on the Eisenhower when I’m returning.  It’s a great time to get my mind in order and just relax as the miles pass by.  Returning the car after I got home…  that was the aggravation.  It wasn’t a big imposition…  just drive to O’Hare, refuel the car, drop it off, and take the CTA home…  but I was just ready to get back to the apartment and watch my stories.

(Oh, RTD?  You owe me an hour of my life back after that Doctor Who Christmas Episode.  We’re getting a year off of a regular season for THAT?)

All the gifts went over well, all the gifts I received were extremely nice and well thought out, and I received a beautiful old knitted scarf from my grandparents during the now annual “Pass Out the Heirlooms and Tell a Story” portion of Christmas.

I should stay in tonight, but I don’t know if I will.  I should consider going out and being gay.  We’ll see.  Maybe I should go check the hood of my car.

From XKCD:

Gifts almost wrapped. Choir stuff will be sorted out.  Rental car ferried myself to Kansas safely, with wonderful Sirius keeping me company.

Spent the day working on computer stuff for the Parental Units, and made much progress towards the KUSA project. 

Will be spending Xmas in an internet dead zone, which means that no Doctor Who and EastEnders Xmas specials until Friday night… although I’ll have Slumdog Millionaire residing on my PC within a minute or two.

It’ll be an interesting time.

And I get my first new year’s off in over 10 years.  I think I’m throwing a party.

My car battery has problem with cold weather.  I’m used to jumping it, and it certainly leaps to attention when I do that.  I was expecting to talk to the Parental Units over the holiday to get ideas on what to do, but I expected everything to be fine before that point.

Today I went down to my car to run an errand and just let the engine warm up for a while to get ready for the long drive tomorrow.  I get the jumpstarter, I get ready to pop the hood…  I get ready to pop the hood… I get READY TO POP THE HOOD!!!

Apparently, it’s so cold here that the hood release mechanism has frozen.  If I can’t pop the hood, I can’t start the car.  If I can’t start the car, I can’t warm the engine.  If I can’t warm the engine, I can’t pop the hood.

I’m on hold with AAA (after getting a new membership) right now.  Hopefully we’ll make it work.

This can only happen to me.

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