More television

I'm going through my Digiguide listings to see if there's anything interesting coming up that I might want to watch over the next month or so, and also to remove flags from programmes that I tried and which turned out to be dire. For example, I've watched as much of Spooks: Code 90210 as anyone with a brain can take.

New things coming now that summer's over:
- Season 3 of Heroes at the end of September on the BBC. I hope this is a vast improvement on Season 2, which was generally pants
- Burn Notice starting on FX in October. I've seen a few clips with Michael Shanks in them but they didn't inspire me to watch the programme - the main guy looked incredibly bland, very much the boring American cardboard cutout. Still, I'll give it a shot. Might end up just watching the MS eps when they turn up here sometime in 2010
- Megasnake! Oh yes, it's finally arrived on SciFi in the UK. I think it deserves watching while in an alcoholic haze
- A new US thing called Breaking Bad. Anyone seen this? Is it any good?
- Another new US thing called Eli Stone. Again, any opinions?
- The new series of Medium
- ReGenesis appearing on FX, which makes me think we may, one day, actually be able to move past series 2. Not this year, though. SciFi are reshowing series 2 yet again in the middle of the night
- New series of Medium, which I still like, even as it's got weirder

Anything else anyone's spotted that might be worth a look?

Also waiting for me on my DVD shelf: SG: Continuum, the rest of ST: Voyager, Miss Potter, A Dog's Breakfast, Polar Express, and my new box of the first 3 Star Wars films sadly 'improved' by all the new nonsense (but you can't get the originals these days so I finally caved).

Ah, pets

It would be so nice if I could explain to my cats thusly: "Yes, I know it's stinky stuff and you really don't like it, and I know you can see me coming a mile off with the horrid stinky stuff, and I know you'll hate me forever (or at least for half an hour), but that was a flea so you need the flea treatment." Ho hum. Trauma over now, so it can't have been that bad.

Sewing is hard

So far I've managed to measure and cut the material for 4 curtains, and pin three hems on each of them. My knees hurt (I have a hard wood floor) and my back hurts from all the bending over the material. This sewing thing is hard but not in the way anyone mentioned previously. At least I know I can cut in straight lines. Haven't worked my way up to turning the machine on yet. Maybe tomorrow. Or next week.

Writing less successful today. I'll give it another go after dinner.