Ok, I'm trying to write a blog since Monday, but I didn't get too far... So I'll try to keep it short, so that I'll finish it 
On Tuesday the week before we had our topping out ceremony, which was a great party. But on Wednesday a had a bad hangover, even though I thought that I hadn't drunk that much... I still had the hangover on Thursday and on Friday and on Saturday, ... So it seems it was no hangover after all, but some kind of virus 
On this Wednesday I had a few important meetings which didn't went as good as I wanted with me not be to concentrate or articulate a whole sentence SO before I knew it, I was set for a business trip to Russia the whole next week. But instead of seeing an airport, a hotel and a company, I won't even see that much, because our meeting will take place in the hotel, great... Oh and I was chosen to present some products I have never heard about, so this will be one wasted week... It also meant that I had to prepare the trip and the presentations for this meeting over the last couple of days (of course in addition to normal work... I have to learn to say 'no' to my bosses once in a while ) which is the reason I haven't written a blog in that time.
I also met with my electrician to perform all the planning for the house, and after we were nearly done, he mentioned that it seems that I forgot two important things in my plans - Computer network and TV! Yes, I know, as a member of tv.com, these should be the first things to think about, not the ones I completely forget
Nevertheless, I managed to finally read noahcrash's Serial part 4! Great, wicked, freaky stuff!
Oh, and I somehow managed to get to a new level for the first time in a long while So I should re-start submitting to finally get to my favourite level, #22...
Oh, and I watched some TV, as always. Here a few tidbits:
Moonlight (Pilot):
Worst opening exposition ever! It was obviously tagged on after the episode was already finished and it was so sloppy, it even managed to ruin scenes half an hour later. The rest of the episode was some standard nothing out of the ordinary vampire PI stuff. Oh, and hello writers, if you do a murder mystery, please include more then 3 guest stars, it keeps the who done it rather easy to guess...
Still: 4/10
Life:
A police officer who was incarcerated for 10 years for a murder he didn't commit, gets a big settlement, including him being promoted to Detective. He is just a bit off, what makes this kind of a different procedural, a bit like Raines was last year. Add to that an ongoing storyline about him trying to figure out what really happened 10 years ago, some great actors (Damian Lewis, Adam Arkin, Robin Weigert) and you have quite an interesting series.
7.5/10, will keep watching, witch means another procedural has to go... buy-buy Numb3rs.
The second episodes of Reaper and Chuck both did not live up to their pilots, with Reaper still being better than the similar Chuck.
I liked the second episode of Journeyman, even though the connections of his time travels to the desired end effect is very far fetched...
Stargate Atlantis started its 4th season, without anything spectacular. I don't see how Samantha Carter will fit into this, SGA already has 2 geniuses with Rodney and Zelenka...
What if:
Life: A friend/colleague of yours was in prison for a long time for murder (and you were convinced he did it). Now he is released and his name cleared. How do you react towards him?
This happened today in the past: 1985: The Achille Lauro was hijacked by terrorists and 1000 people held hostage.
Comments
I just needed to rant a bit 
because I think I'm the wrong guy for this particular trip and that nothing will come out of it...Watch those pilots already, it helps dropping shows and clearing the schedule
The second episode of Moonlight is marginally better even though it included something I hadn't expected this early in the series
I also thought the second Journeyman episode was OK, I really like that his wife believes him.Not sure about the 'what if' ...
Moonlight is gone for me, Journeyman is a keeper
(until it's cancellation in 5 weeks anyway...)
Waiting for S3 I've been watching reruns of S1, and the pilot is barmstorming; I'd completely forgotten Charlie cycling through the rain to meet Larry in an arcade. But all the grittiness is thrown away next ep, and the maths slowly disintergrates - Cheryl should invite me to write an ep, I'd put the "lie" back into LIE algebra, and the "killing" into Killing Vector.
(Notice, too, how lies are related to killing, even in the abstract world of mathematics.
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I think Numb3rs lost a lot of steam when Larry went to 24, aehm, to the ISS. And I didn't like the end of S3/beginning of S4, so I probably will drop the show, even though I like the Eppes family...So, you mean if Levi-Civita is lie-ing, it will be a killing field?
I've been hearing good things about Reaper - will have to put it on my Tivo.
As for the 'what if' - depends on how well I think I know them. Not all the guilty go to jail and some go to jail that don't deserve to. I would probably avoid them if I thought they were guilty even though they've been released. If I believed they were innocent I will try to do what I can to help them get back into society.
jim, who learned the hard way
Jim: Yeah, that's what I figured after the guy mentioned it.
Better to pay a thousand bucks or so now, instead of triple the amount (not to mention all the mess of opening the walls up again) later.
You need to start submitting just so you get to 1000 subs!
If Moonlight is worse than Blood Ties then it must be bad!
Never even heard of Life...
As for your 'what if', it depends on how set I am on the fact they did it and how many facts I had. If I only thought they did it but didn't have any hard evidence then I'd be ok if they were cleared and freed.
It's the ceremony you do when all the brickwork and roof carpentry of a house is finished, to celebrate this important step Typically, the foreman is doing a toast and nails a small tree on top of the house, then throws a glass from top and if it shatters, the party can start 
Moonlight is just bad, the writers obviously weren't thinking anything...
'Life' is worth checking out, if you like cop shows with a twist...
Nailing small trees to roofs? Cuckoo... I'll check out Life if it ever comes to UK shores and I notice it's on.
LMH68