Powerless

Something we have to grow accustomed to around here once the hot weather arrives, which it has, is sporadic power outages. Sometimes they are prolonged, half an hour, a couple of hours, but usually they are momentary. I’d rather the former than the latter. Twice during my writing session this morning, the power went off and came back on immediately. A second at most. My desktop computer takes nearly five minutes to go through all the startup crap to get to the point where it is actually usable, so the bites out of my time are annoying, not to mention the fact that I lose whatever edits I’ve done recently. After the second outage, at about 6:20, I gave up for the morning.

The season finale of Law & Order was decent, riffing off the recent travails of an East Coast governor who got caught with his pants down, not quite literally but almost. Though obviously inspired by real events, the writers integrated the story into their own mythos and ended on a completely different note than what happened. No tearful resignations, no beleaguered wife, and an interesting plot development that can be pursued next season.

The finale of Grey’s Anatomy was exactly what I wanted. Everyone except Alex got a boost in one way or another. The Alex plot was a little over the top, I thought, but the unintended side effect, Meredith arriving home to find blood on the floor, was brilliant. Meredith’s revelation was so obvious, but well thought out at the same time. Christine is up, Izzy has something new, George is up, almost everyone got kissed, except Bailey, who finally sees the big picture. I don’t like Lexie as much as I did when she first showed up, but she redeemed herself a tad with George. For one painful moment near the end, I thought they were going to have Derek rush off to break the news to Rose (who almost certainly wasn’t going to be surprised) only to get involved in a horrible accident or something equally cliched. I’m relieved they resisted doing that.

And did you catch the TV commercial during the episode that featured—wait for it—a guy encased in cement? Is that art imitating art?