Not LOST Related. I promise.

Maren and I are in the process of making some updates to our house to prepare it for the pitiful housing market.  We’ve had spome handy men come and make repairs to our bathroom walls where our experimentation failed terribly.  They retextured the walls and last weekend Maren primed them.  Last night she painted them and it looks much nicer.  Now, she’s gone to get some paint for the back of the house.  Amos and Fred (the artists formerly known as Dumb and Dumber) had done a number chewing up the house, so we put a rot board at the bottom and we’re repainting.  Plus, we need to paint the outside of the back door that we got about 3 or 4 years ago.  We emptied out the garage last weekend (we had to break down and get our first storage unit).  All in all, our house is beginning to look really good.  We may not move after all.

For those curious, we don’t have another house picked out quite yet, but we’re mainly looking in Clear Lake.  It puts me closer to work and the schools are still good.

A quickie

For those of you longing for the days when I posted things that weren’t LOST related, keep waiting.  Maybe something someday.

I was thoroughly pleased with last night’s episode for a multitude of reasons, but I want to draw your attention to one:  Kate.

I was tragically in love with Super Kate following Seasons 1 and 2 when she was an all-around badass, generally speaking.  While I continue to champion my beautiful Kate, I became bored with the weepy Sawyer-or-Jack Kate in Seasons 3 and 4.  But last night, in her scene with Locke, we saw Kate (while not exactly badass) return to strong form.  It was nice to see her playing the role of Mrs. Jack and refuse to cut Locke any slack.  Twice, we saw her launch personal and emotional attacks on John as her justification for not following him back to the Island.

Now, I think Kate will ultimately be proven wrong, and I suspect she will ultimately end up with Sawyer, but it was nice to see her in a stronger role last night.

Feeding that LOST addiction

Latest thoughts on LOST:

-I was so distraught over Aaron’s disappearance (and I don’t know why, because I’ve never cared about Turnip Head before) that I forgot why Ben might be bloodied, battered, bruised, and, um, delayed.  I completely forgot about “keeping his promise” to an old friend.  I have genuinely developed a crush on Penelope and hope she still ranks among the living, but I also feel it would be cheap of the writers for Ben to promise something then not deliver on it.

-I read earlier this season about people speculating that maybe the Numbers had changed.  The claim was the number 3 was appearing a bit more often than a normal number would.  From the top of my head, all the Numbers have appeared this season except for 4.  (I can’t think of an instance, at least.)  Why is this significant?  If you followed the Lost Experience in between Seasons 2 and 3, it was revealed that the Numbers were the core values to the Valenzetti Equation, an equation that predicts the demise of humanity.  The Dharma Intiative built the six stations to try to change the Numbers.  If 3 has replaced 4, then…?  [Appearances of 3:  Ben pulled the tag "342" the first time his visits Jill at the butcher shop, and the Oceanic 6 5 fly on Ajira Flight 316 much like Oceanic 815.  In both cases, "3" is paired with another Number.  I'm sure there are more instances of 3, I just can't remember any more.]

-Speaking of Ajira 316, I loved the entire sequence.  I loved Sayid’s reaction to everyone boarding the plane.  I love how each character acted as a substitute for an original 815′er.  Sayid = handcuffed Kate.  Hurley = instrument-ed Charlie.  Ben = late-boarding Hurley.  Sun = Sun wanting to rediscover her husband from whom she had been separated?  Okay, that one’s a stretch.  But what if Kate is substituting for a pregnant Claire, carrying someone of the Shepherd lineage?  And “We’re not going to Guam, are we?”

-I mentioned briefly something about Jacob and the Shepherd lineage.  My thoughts still aren’t fully formed, but they fall among these lines:  I think Jack was always destined to be leader of the Island’s indigenous people.  I think Locke is, to borrow a phrase, an accidental leader.  People think he’s the next leader because in 1954 he told Richard he was going to be leader.  I think Locke is very important to the Island somehow, just not as leader.  Meanwhile, Jack has always been the show’s hero and leader, and Locke has worked to support Jack in that role.  Plus, the introduction of Jack’s grandfather and his talk of going away and never being found has me feeling that MAYBE Christian’s been to the Island before, maybe Ray (Grandpa Shepherd) too.  It also makes me feel like Aaron being Christian’s grandson is a more relevant plot point than we might have first believed.  Like I said, my thoughts aren’t fully formed, but they’re swirling all around these things.

It’s 10:08 p.m. and I wanted to be in bed an hour and 38 39 minutes ago.  So no editing for spelling and grammar and typos.  Good night.

EDIT:  I couldn’t help it.  I proofread some and caught some stupid mistakes.  If you catch any others, let me know.

Another helping of LOST

First, something brought to my attention.  Rewatch the scene early in “This Place is Death” with Jin orienting himself on the beach.  In the background, you can hear the transmission of the Numbers.  People are speculating that the voice sounds like Hurley.  I didn’t think so at the first hearing, but the second time, especially when the voice says “23″, I could definitely make that connection.  If it’s true, I love this show even more.  What if Hurley somehow caused Rousseau’s research team to crash and Leonard’s insanity?

My thoughts are currently swirling around Jacob, Locke, and the Shepherd lineage (Claire, Jack, Christian, Aaron) and some theories are firming a little, but I don’t have time to talk about them now.  Just wanted to put that out there.

Thank you, Daily Show

And I quote:

Let me put a trillion dollars into context.  If you were to spend a million dollars the day Jesus was born and a million dollars every day since, you still would not have spent a trillion dollars.

Crunched the numbers, and he’s right.  In fact, it would take another 730 years to get to $1,000,000,000,000 at that rate.