Wishing I Could Be With My Wonderful Wife

Times are tough. Winter has been long and icy. While the cold isn't really that hard for me to deal with, my wife is much more susceptible to it and so it worries me a little. Ice can be fun, in small amounts and when it's under control. Driving in Utah this winter has been more like skating in cars. For some reason (probably paranoia surrounding the economy) Utah has decided to neither plow nor salt the roads. Well, the main roads get plowed like a week or two after it snows. Needless to say; my California bride is less confident driving on ice. I don't blame her at all. I just wish that the roads were getting better with time. It rained for a few days last week. At the end of it I was hopeful that the ice rink that is our parking lot would be easier to use now. Then it snowed again.

Brittany got new responsibilities at work!!! I'm so excited for her! She deserved them months ago, I say, but I'm still glad she finally got them.

Valentines Day is coming up. This is my first V-Day as a husband and I'm stoked, but a little scared that I'm going to "drop the ball." I like doing nice things for my beautiful wife, but for some reason when I do I never really feel like it's enough. When I'm not sure of myself she picks up on it and gets anxious as well. None of this is overt or even recognized but I know that I need to be confident in what I do, especially gifts. She wants these sandals that we found at the mall, but I haven't had the time to go buy them yet. I hope they still have them when I do.

Anyway - I'm just sitting here wishing I could be with my wife right now. Time to get back to work, I guess.

"Delay of Game"

Apparently it's raining... or snowing... or somthing. Heroes is not going to continue the season until the beginning of February. Looks like I'm not alone in my critique.

Here's a quote from NBC's President of Primetime Entertainment (yeah that's a long title) Bromstad:

“‘Heroes’ is very secure,” she says. “We have a great relationship with Tim Kring … what’s important is we never lose sight of being responsible in production. And television is about the characters and the writing, and we want to make sure that that show is on track. But very secure. I think that what Tim is interested in doing is getting back to the core of the show and that it’s these ordinary people with extraordinary powers and that they may have taken on too much in terms of characters and multiple storylines.”

I'd bet that their interest in "characters" and "writing" will really only extend to keeping the core TV basics: a hot teeager/model, a hot young hero, obligatory sidekicks, one attractive arch-nemesis and plenty of less-attractive villains.

Basically stated, I think their executive problem with the show is the large number of actors' salaries they were having to pay in a show whose ratings are dropping. The easy way for them to "fix" the show is to trim the "dead wood." While this is a good idea, I doubt it will help their writers to actually make the story cool again.