The good news and the bad news

The good news is that Blogger has finally come back. Hooray! On Wednesday, there was supposed to be a one-hour downtime due to some maintenance work, but something went awry and the system was really buggy. I could post things as normal yesterday, and the only thing I struggled with was trying to get the system to save the edits I had made to the New Moon review. And for some reason, it wouldn't save it, it just eventually said "you're about to leave this page, are you sure you want to do that?" which then lead to "page not responding".

In the evening, when the Squeeze was clicking on a link on Facebook to see a blog post, it wasn't there. And on closer inspection this morning, as it turns out, Blogger had switched off the Blogger Dashboard access and reverted to a backup done before their maintenance work, which meant every post and every comment made until that time were temporarily gone. At the moment, the posts I was missing have returned, and the comments hopefully will be back at some point. Just glad it's back now. Business as usual! [More info about the downtime and its causes here]

The BAD news is that US TV network ABC have brought out their big network axe to prune their schedules. These shows have been confirmed as CANCELLED:

So it's February...

Been busy with stuff recently... and at the same time, not more than usual. Oh well.

On the Squeee front...
Couldn't help myself, so I've started on North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell... Think I'm on chapter six so far, and from sneaking a peak, I think it's in the next chapter (i.e. 7) where she first encounters dear Thornton.

I've watched Jane Eyre '73 and been ogling some spin-off books on Amazon (waiting to get a voucher to buy them). Also been reading some... I think I've read past the shoelace scene. It's somewhere around when Blanche et al are at Thornfield anyway.

Saw the Heroes and then the Heroines episodes of the documentary Reader, I Married Him yesterday, and for the first time, found myself disagreeing with Daisy Goodwin. Something she was saying about Rochester "marrying a mad woman for her money" had me exclaiming, "Oi! He was tricked into that marriage! He didn't know she was mad, and he didn't marry her for the money, his relations made the match for her money, not him!" Soo... anyway... *cough* It was followed up by Seriously Dirty Dancing with the wonderful Dawn Porter. Incidentally, Dirty Dancing was shown on Fiver last night, but I didn't see it. I do have a bit of a craving now, though. Maybe I'll get out the DVD to cheer me up, because another program on telly last night managed to get me down. Sigh.

Brothers & Sisters 4.1-2

I only found out the other day that ABC started showing series 4 of Brothers & Sisters back in the end of September, so I'm catching up now. It's a show I saw a trailer for originally and thought looked good, but never got around to watch. That is, until I found out who would guest star in series 2. So I watched those particular episodes and thought it was good and then, as British TV started showing series 2 from the beginning, I decided to watch it, and then I watched series 3... and I've still only seen the first 5 episodes of series 1!

Series 4 has been eagerly awaited by myself and my mum-in-law, who loves the show. Series 3 ended with Kitty having an affair (or did she?), Ryan being a sneaky bastard (er, literally), Robert trying to run for governor behind Kitty's back and she found out, Justin's a med student, Tommy is soul-searching in Mexico and Justecca getting engaged. At the start of series 4, there's a very effective scene which sets the picture for us, in case we forgot. It's Nora and Saul talking in her kitchen. We are told that Kevin and Scotty are same ol' same ol', Sarah's started dating, and Kitty and Robert are trying to patch things up. Brilliant, we know just where we are with everyone.