It’s over 80° today, and humid, but that’s fixin’ to change tomorrow night, as they say around here. Down to 38° then and 30° on Friday night. We expect to do lots of cooking over the next few days. I started off with a yummy ham soup. I won the bone in a drawing at work last week after our office party. It had a lot of meat on it, so it made a good broth. Had a lunch of it and then put the rest in the freezer in single-meal bags. I doubt we’ll get back to it in the coming days.
I was wrong in my suspicions of Liat on NCIS. Turns out she wasn’t the leak. I thought they did a decent job of making Leon look young for his flashbacks. I like the way a lot of the show’s lore was wrapped up. The old debt that Leon paid off back when he became director was probably for that Danish, the one under discussion just before McAllister sent Gibbs off to Paris to work with Jenny Shepherd. My favorite line of the evening came from McGee, to Ziva, who is pounding the remote on the desk: Whoa, you don’t have to Gibbs up the clicker.
Sons of Anarchy has some funny developments, but this one takes the cake. Tell me there’s more going on in the feud between Tig and Kozik than a dog. Seriously? Tig is willing to leave SAMCRO short because of “his girl.” Still, there were some surprising developments this week. SAMCRO needed Salazar alive to expose Hale, thereby keeping Charming P.D. running things. They were so worried about Alvarez killing him. Instead, they should have been worried about Jax, who executed the guy who had kidnapped his old woman. Then comes the biggest of surprise of all: Stahl killing her girlfriend. Whoa. Did not see that coming, but it made a twisted kind of sense when Stahl kept up her part of the bargain with Jax to free Gemma. Is there anything this woman won’t do? She’s stone cold. Funniest lines of the episode (other than Gemma’s R-rated description of how Lyla earns her money when talking to Opie. “I’m sensing that’s a problem for you.”): 1) Juice, defending his inability to speak or understand Spanish. “I’m a Puerto Rican from Queens. I speak better Yiddish.” 2) Bobby to Jax: “We just traveled halfway around the world to get your boy. Tara should be a walk in the park.” Kudos to Hale for acting when Jax created a diversion, though of course he milked it for all it was worth after the fact. Favorite scene: Gemma and Wayne sharing a joint and commiserations.
