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CW? It’s a done deal.

On May 17, 2006

Veronica Mars renewed for a third season. (The announcement is below the Grey’s Anatomy interview.)

WOOOOOOOOOTTTT!!!!!

I was fairly confident it would be, but it’s nice to have confirmation. Sorry to any Everwood fans out there…I didn’t watch it, but I know a lot of people really loved it. Okay, now back to VM. If I weren’t at work, I’d be jumping up and down right now.

So. UPN is rerunning Season 2 over the summer, starting ~~TONIGHT at 9/8 central~~ (my bad, I was reading posts from yesterday and didn’t connect the timing). I personally don’t like starting shows in the middle, but it can be done, especially if you’re not obsessive like me. ;) Go ahead and give it a try tonight, if you want. The S1 DVDs are available, as well, if you’d rather start at the beginning. I hear Target has them on sale for $22.99 (which is about 60% off normal price, and about 40% of amazon.com’s current price), but I haven’t been able to locate a set yet. I believe the library system has them as well. And if you’re in St. Louis, I have a set of DVDs burned off TV that I can lend you (of season 1, not season 2). And S2 comes out on DVD in August, which is still a month or so before S3 will start. So there are options both for obsessives and start-in-the-middlers.

If you choose to watch the S2 reruns over the summer and want to get an overview of S1, my friend Cindy has written up a brief synopsis of the season here. Be aware, she does completely spoil the mystery in S1, but she leaves a lot of spoiler space before she does, in case you decide while reading the synopsis that you really don’t want to know. (Of course, if you watch Season 2, you’ll find out anyway.)

Note that I was mistaken about the timing of the rerun…it’s not tonight (Wednesday), it was last night. So you can start watching next week with episode two, but do note that 2×02 was one of the worst episodes of the entire series, so if you do start with that one, DO NOT JUDGE the show by it! Please! (On the other hand, if you watch it and like it, just think how awesome the rest of the show is!)

Now, if I can just keep Katharine McPhee on American Idol after tonight, this will be a completely and unbeatably great day. Yes indeed.

Is it a full moon?

By Jandy

On May 16, 2006

In Personal

Okay, today at work I have had:

A late return claim (the check was deposited in AUGUST, and banks only have like 10 days to return something…not NINE MONTHS), which was sent to us the wrong way in the first place, and the person at the other bank has no idea what to do with it…and neither do I, since I haven’t done a late return claim for like six months because they’re rare and usually the senior clerk does them, but she’s on vacation.

A check that was written for $400.00 but encoded as $4000.00, which was more than the customer had in their account, so it hit the “insufficient funds” report, which means Bookkeeping gets it, which means I get to do the adjustment instead of the normal person who handles encoding errors.

A “raw” return item, which is an item that we have to return (because our customer’s account is closed in this case, and thus we can’t pay the item), but we can’t tell which bank deposited the item, so we have to handle it through the Federal Reserve system.

Normally, I might get one of these things a month. If that. I think in the year that I’ve been doing adustments, I’ve had three raw items, four encoding errors on return items, and maybe two late return claims. All three in one day? Unprecedented. Not to mention the late return is going to be very ugly, because it was messed up before we even got it. Normally I spend maybe ten-fifteen minutes a day on return adjustments. Return adjustments are twice as confusing as normal ones. Me = not happy camper.

(Only forty minutes and I can leave…only forty minutes and I can leave…and watch American Idol…and House…TV makes everything seem better…)

Best Show on TV

By Jandy

On May 10, 2006

In Television

Okay, people I know in real life need to watch Veronica Mars. Because last night’s season finale? Amazing. And I want to talk to people about it so badly it hurts. I mean, I’m talking with online people, which is cool, and I watched it with some online-friends-turned-real-life-friends, but when I get obsessed about stuff, I want to share it with everybody I know, and I know exactly two people at church who watch it.

Mark, did you see it last night?

March Reading/Watching Recap

By Jandy

On May 6, 2006

In Books and Reading, Film, Reviews

I’m a month behind again! Hey, I’ve been putting more effort into watching and reading than writing. (No, really. I’ve been busting through my goals pretty well this year. I’m practicing for grad school, when I hear I’ll have half as much time to do twice as much work. We’ll see.)

Also, some day I’m going to write about something other than movies and books. Really. I promise.

Reactions, not reviews, blah blah blah jaffacakes.

ABC Ramps Up Internet TV

By Jandy

On May 1, 2006

In Television

Heck, yeah. Finally some TV studios are getting the point.

ABC launches free online streaming TV shows. [via Gizmodo]

Here’s ABC’s entry page for streaming episodes. Right now they’ve got Lost, Desperate Housewives, Alias, and Commander in Chief available. I flipped through a little…looks like they’ve got all the S5 Alias episodes, the last three Desperate Housewives, and just the latest Lost. I wonder if they’ll tend to move toward having them all available, or just the latest one? If it were me, my model would be to have the latest episode available for free streaming for a week, and then charge a fee to watch earlier ones…perhaps $0.99 to stream an episode and $1.99 to download it (without commercials of course). That would keep with the current iTunes/GoogleVideo price point, but also have a cheaper option for one-time viewing.