I bought a memory stick (flash drive) yesterday. $30 for 8 gigs. Eight gigs! I was able to back up my entire “My Documents” folder onto it save for my music folder, and I still have gigs to spare. I thought about getting a USB disk drive for backups—you can get those with hundreds of gigs for a coupla hundred dollars, but I don’t need that much storage, not by a long shot. Thirty bucks. Eight gigs. Amazing.
We drove 12 miles round-trip with two cars last night to take advantage of an about-to-expire coupon. The deal? Seventy cents off the price of a gallon of gas. We filled up one car, kept the nozzle out of the cradle and moved the second car into position to fill it up, too. If it had been any farther than that, I probably would have balked, but it seemed worth it to save $18-$20.
The NCIS team is back together again. The story last night felt a little derivative of an earlier season episode set on a submarine. In this case it was an aircraft carrier. It was good to see McGee stepping up to the plate with the director, taking the initiative.
The Mentalist had an unexpected outcome last night. The show is okay—not great, but I enjoy it. I liked the fake-out with the sheriff, and the interplay between the two “couples” where there is obvious sexual tension.
I posted my The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly. The book comes out in a couple of weeks. It reintroduces us to Mickey Haller, the protagonist of The Lincoln Lawyer and introduces him to his half-brother, Harry Bosch, though he doesn’t know that for most of the book (though we do).
