Stories from an ordinary life

Rainy day ruminations

It's been raining like a mofo all day here. Jazzie thinks God turned on a giant faucet just for her, so despite being cold and wet she refuses to come inside. I was pretty miserable getting up in the dark for work this morning, but if the weather is like this tomorrow I'll be pretty happy since I get to lay in bed until after 1 p.m. Yay for Fridays! When high school football is over I might actually miss the late nights because I'll lose my late mornings. Oh well, at least I'll be back on a regular schedule.

Anyway, today was further proof that things are typically what they seem and there are few exceptions to the rule. In general, if you are at the scene of a suspicious death, then you probably killed the person. Period. We get the stories every day -- man claims he found his step-daughter stabbed to death, two weeks later he's charged; woman claims she tripped, dropped her husband's gun and it shot him in the back of the head, a few weeks later she's charged with murder. It's too predictable; I call it every time. The amount of denial people close to them will go through is also amazing. This guy's family is standing by the daughter-in-law, even though her story is preposterous. The guy was a police officer, wouldn't his gun have the safety on? And why would he have left it lying around, loaded no less, with two small children in the house? It's like the Laci Peterson case; her parents stood by Scott for weeks until they found out about the affair. Come on people! If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck!

I think another sign of the obvious popped up on "Alias" tonight. They've changed the opening. It used to be all pictures of Sydney in her many disguises. Now suddenly she gets just a few slides in the beginning and all the rest of the cast takes up most of the sequence. I think it's a sign that now she is considered replaceable, she's no longer the big star of the show. I'm pretty sure it means that this is her last season, and of course Michael Vartan, a.k.a. Vaughn, wasn't even in the credits. That's bad news -- maybe his character really is dead for good -- or at least the producers want us to think so. So without J. Gar and Vartan I think I too will be retiring my spy days and start watching something else on Thursday nights next year. Then again, the new male APO officer is pretty cute. We'll see if he grows on me.

posted by This one time . . . @ 11:18 PM