A much longer post than I'd anticipated. Now if only I'd said something meaningful...

Belated Thanksgiving sentiment: I'm thankful for my little sister, she who fixes computers. Hail, Little Sister! It works! It works right! I don't know what she did differently than I did, but whatever, things are behaving like they should again. Huzzah! Ooh, I wonder if IM will work again. Something to check, definitely. Anyway, sacrifices shall be made to the glory that is my computer-savvy sister, and I will cross my fingers and hope I don't do whatever I did that I didn't know I did in the first place. Again. Right.

And I see by my flist that LJ is eating comments again? Huh. Well, grr of course, but at least it's them and not me this time. Yay!

Watched the Greatest Canadian. ( I dunno if it's a spoiler once Peter Mansbridge says it, but I'm cutting because it amuses me to do so. Whooooo is the Greatest Canadian? Oh, the suspense! How shall I stand it? Must click! )

I still miss Mats Sundin, though. Stupid lockout.

I think I want a Sir John A. action figure. Heh. I bet that's on all the kids' wishlists this year.

So I saw the preview thingie for the extended RotK, and I just have to say, oooooooooh. Shiny. ( Contained within- maybe five sentences, with a microspoiler. Yeehaw )

"Gerard 101" update: As I doubt you remember, I've been on a quest to see as many Gerard Butler movies as possible, what with him to be playing My Guy in Beowulf and Grendel and all. But I've hit the end of local resources, alas (well, until Phantom opens, I suppose). Even more regrettable, my "Gerard 101" final exam was Dracula 2000. Um. Well. Every actor has one of these, right?

( Oy, this movie. No spoilers, just saving space )

But! It looks like all may not be lost in the realm of cheesy fun. I should probably feel guilty for always wishing I had cable for this sort of thing rather than, say, The Sopranos or The Wire, but really, I don't. Heh. And this sounds like just my sort of popcorn: The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, starring Noah Wyle (aw, puppy) as the geek what done the world-saving. Dude! No, seriously, dude! ( Spoilers? I have no idea what TNT has put in their ads, so I can't really judge. Doesn't seem spoilery to me, but I'm easy )

So, yeah, if anyone wanted to tape The Librarian for me, that would be most excellent. I'd reimburse you or bake you cookies or what you will. And if you're not quite ready to admit a taste for the cheesier things in life but just can't resist indulging, it'll give you the perfect excuse to watch it. "Watching this? Oh no, certainly not. I'm simply taping it for a friend while I... reread Swann's Way. Yeah, that's the ticket."

Speaking of favors, I have to say, I find the wishlist meme fascinating. People want such neat things! Of course, half the time I'm thinking "me too!" as I read. I wish I had anything in the way of fiction-writing, graphic-making or source-providing skills. Alas. Still, maybe something within my talents will turn up, right? All of my own wishes fall under the category of either "me too!" or icons (I have a computer full of pretty pictures and no skills), so I'm not going to bother making a list, I think. Still a fun meme, though.

And I know every one's sick of it, but baaaa. My next attempts got me "Nick Stokes," "Emma Peel," and "bees," none of which I'd deny, but my first try netted:

( 'Paul/Alva is love' (I'm sure you know what they look like by now) )

Heh. Indeed. Love and angst and PAIN! and really bad communication skills and apocalypses and (presumably, hopefully, eventually) very hot sex. Oh, ouch, struck by a terrible Miracles craving! Well, hm. It's a been a while since I've watched it, and I do have twelve more episodes to talk about, which I really, really want to do. But I just got S7 of Stargate, which I've never seen, plus there are still seasons 4-6 to rewatch (or just plain watch, in the case of 98% of S6), plus I know I'm getting S5 of Xena for Chanukah (yaaaaay! Even though it's my least fave season, yaaaay!), plus the SEs of Mulan and The Iron Giant... aiiiee, drowned in DVD backlog! Do I squoosh Miracles in there or leave it until January or so? Hmmm... Methinks I'll not be deciding tonight.

Non-spoilery NCIS comments

Ducky is adorable and awesome beyond all measure. I'd pounce on him in a minute flat (David McCallum's lack of youth notwithstanding- he's still David McCallum, after all). Even if I weren't so horribly fond of the show, I'd have to watch it for Ducky's sake.

And also for Tony and Abby. So cute! So much cuteness in the lab! Doesn't matter how much I sometimes want to smack him (which isn't as often as Gibbs and Kate actually do, oddly enough), I love Tony madly. I wish I'd been taping the show right along so I could wrangle my Tony thoughts and suspicions into some sort of shape. Oh well (psst! Hey, DVD gods!). And Abby can do no wrong in my eyes. I sometimes wonder about the dress code at NCIS, but then again, it is Abby. They'd probably bend the rules for her. I would.

If you'd told me last season that NCIS would have moved from "fun diversion" to "can't miss" show? I would not have believed you. Go figure.