Getting back to "it"

Maria is very excited about Rachel Ray' new daily show on CBS.  It starts next week Monday the eighteenth at 9 a.m.  I for one will not be watching.  Not because I don't like Rachel Ray but because it is on when I am at work.  Rachel is fun to watch.  She has loads of energy.  I saw her on Oprah once and was amazed at how Rachel's energy overwhelmed Oprah's.  I don't enjoy cooking shows but I have heard that the $40 a day show is very good.

Bittersweet time September is.  Summer is ending but here come the new shows.  I am looking forward to seeing what happens on Lost.  I think less than 5 new episodes of Lost are scheduled to air in the fall.  The bulk of the third season will air after the new year.  I realize that Lost is a cliffhanger and the producers want to keep its viewers hanging on for the next episode; tv's version of return customers.  But, Lost does have some sense of denoument (resolution) in each episode.  By using flashbacks the show allows us insight into its characters.  So even though questions like; why is the hatch on the island? what is up with those numbers? where did that smoke monster get off to? who are the 'others' and why do they take the children? and what happened to the polar bears? are never answered, we do get answers to why Jack needs to take care of everybody or why John Locke needs to believe in the supernatural or why Hugo is afraid of good fortune.  By the way Hugo is my favorite character for many reasons.  If you are not watching the show can I suggest renting season 1 on DVD next time you can't decide on a movie at Blockbuster.  Watching three episodes is far more satisfying than one lackluster film like "The Inside Man". 

I see that my last entry was on August 5.  I took a vacation in mid August.  Maria and I went to Maui after which I spent a week doing nothing.  Maui was great.  Would like to work it into a blog without gloating over it or trying to analyze how a place could it exist with the sole function of maintaining its beauty to keep people visiting it (shouldn't every place be like that?)  The last two weeks I have suffered from post-vacation depression.  I found it hard to get back to work and back to the normal routines. 

Well, I sincerely hope everyone is ready for Autumn which begins at 4 a.m. September 23.  Funny thing, I guess it is that I have gotten older, but I have become sensitive to how daylight is different in September than in August.  It is a slight change but there nonetheless.  Our temperatures may still hit the nineties but the way the day looks we can still assure ourselves the season is almost over. 

Take care.