I’ve been using my Kangaroo for two weeks. Time is zipping by so fast I thought it was only one week, but when I checked back on my earlier blogs I set myself straight. The Kangaroo is a desktop adjustable height platform that lets me easily and quickly switch between sitting and standing at my computer. This morning was the first time I didn’t sit at all between arrival and gym break. Typically I stand for a couple of hours and sit for a while, switching back and forth throughout the day. Apparently standing burns between 15 and 50 more calories per hour than sitting, but that’s not my goal. It’s to keep from sitting so much because of a bad lower disk. So far it’s working out exactly the way I hoped. My legs do get a little tired after a while, but my back is perfect when I’m standing, and it doesn’t get as sore while sitting in the evening because it hasn’t been stressed so much during the daytime, when I would typically sit at my desk all day long. Money well spent.
I was sure Marty was going home on Survivor this week after he started spouting off during tribal council. Don’t they ever learn? That’s not the place to have a meltdown, especially when you’re already on the verge of being eliminated. (Probst said on his blog that Marty’s main problem is that he’s always hollering.) And NaOnka got a free pass after stealing food and supplies and getting busted for it? (Probst said he realized at this point in the game that if you treat NaOnka like a seven year old, you’d have her figured out.) I have no idea whatsoever why everyone was down on Alina. Did she really pose that great a threat? I hardly remembered her from one week to the next.
I realized that I’d forgotten to watch The Event this week. That happens to me a lot. I never watch the show live, but pick it up via OnDemand the next evening. But I forget about the show. Sometimes it’s two days after or, as this week, three days after. That’s how little impression it makes on me. Then I found out I hadn’t missed it after all because it wasn’t on this week. Ah, well.
I think Criminal Minds is going through its weakest season since I started watching it. They’re getting lazy. The cop of the week was a right bastard this week so of course it had to turn out that his ill temper was somewhat responsible for one of the perpetrators becoming a killer. And then there’s Law & Order: SVU, which this week almost turned into a soap opera. Olivia and Elliot are shot at, so they have to go see the psychiatrist and be cleared to return to active duty. I was wondering why Cragen was making such a big deal about it, but it turned out that the reason was to give Olivia a reason for jumping to a lame-brained conclusion. She meets the daughter of a rape victim from 40 years ago (Maria Bello) and immediately assumes that the same man responsible for this crime raped her own mother. So that would make the woman her half sister. Even Wong knows that’s a pretty wild stretch, a conclusion she arrived at only because she failed to go for counseling after being shot at! Yeah, right. But the soap opera similarity doesn’t end there: instead of finding a sister, she ended up with a foster child when the woman signed over her legal rights to her son to Olivia after killing the rapist and fleeing the jurisdiction. I can see it now: Olivia’s going to turn into Sanchez from The Closer, who spent a huge chunk of last season looking after a young boy, except Olivia will do it legally.
