heidi | I bet there will be spoilers in the comments!

Gacked from

aome, I took the typing test but the "paste it" code didn't manifest properly in Firefox, so here's my info:

You type 403 characters per minute
You have 80 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words

I wish someone had a typing test for the sidekick, which, as an update to my posts about the Sprint and t-mobile HTC devices, I've decided to keep (although the screen is getting a little wiggy so I may have to upgrade to the LX after the holidays). The HTC I was using is sold as the Wing by tmobile and the Mogul by Sprint and it just didn't work as well for me as the sidekick does - I think it's the sidekick keyboard that keeps me around, as well as a realisation that since I have the broadband card for my mini-laptop, I don't really need to be able to access all my documents, for example, on my handheld - good email and web browsing and IM-ing is a lot more important to me than, say, writing Excel docs. I do wish there was a facebook app for the Sidekick, rather than just the myspace one, and I'd definitely appreciate an LJ app that would allow me to load in my flist to some high skip= number, even if it was just in Mobile form, but the web browser isn't bad and I think my hands are just used to it. So yeah, sidekick stability for me.

Terrifying experience last night in the kitchen - I came down to put a bowl away, and there was a mouse in the bread bowl - that's where we keep challah and bagels in zip-lock bags. The evil thing ate through the baggie and was fully enclosed within a challah and I am so proud of myself that I didn't wake children with my screams. About 25 years ago, my mom saw a mouse run across the kitchen floor - we were upstairs with my dad and Grandma - and screamed so loudly that my grandmother shouted at my dad to go down because "they're killing her!" She thought someone had broken into the house, my mom was yelling so loudly - but of course, it was just a mouse. Yesterday I let the little guy run off, then trashed the bread and everything else in the bowl, but today, the exterminator will be called. Oh yes, he will be. Sorry, little mice - but you're not as Clever as the rat in Ratatouille.

I know I still haven't blogged about Monday's Heroes

I think this episode did lose something because of the writer's strike - it felt like they were rushing to get it written, so some things that could've been done more eloquently, or in a more streamlined way, weren't tweaked as much as they needed to be - I would've loved a smidge of *anything* of Nathan looking for Peter, and I think that's going to be something that was intended to be included, but ended up skipped. Same for more exposition on the Backstory of Victoria. But I loved Elle in the car, and the visual and emotional parallels of Claire on the beach with the ashes, everything involving Sylar, and the conversation between Mohinder and Noah, which I think totally justifies my thought last week that Bob and Mohinder planned to shoot Noah and bring him back. I'm 99% sure that Bob knew it was going to work - I'd think that the Company had tested Adam's blood over the years but didn't need to use it because they had Linderman to do healing on people who were still alive. I can see Linderman and Adam totally bonding over the Healing Thing sometime in the late 60s, and I need to go back to the graphic novels of Linderman & Petrelli Sr in Viet Nam to see some timeline - things.

So while I loved aspects of this episode - and wondered if Peter flew Adam down to texas and where the fic about *that* is - it felt, as someone else on my flist said, that there was an additional episode that could have been inserted somewhere between 10 and the upcoming 12 to get more Content in, but they were hampered by the network's schedule and insistence that they finish this arc in December, as well as by the run-up to the writer's strike. There are so many fantastic missing scenes from this entire arc, but especially since episode 9 - what's Nathan been up to, how is Angela doing in jail, where is Matt right now and is he doing any regular policing, how did The Twins + Sylar get to NYC, where is Sylar getting money (my theory is that he snagged a Winchester wallet, lalala), does he have his powers back, why won't Hiro take Ando on any of his jaunts (and yes,

sabaceanbabe, I used that word on purpose!), what do Adam and Peter talk about in the car, does Peter have Molly's powers, has Bob talked to Elle like that her whole life, and why are the Bennetts still getting out of town and will they start using their real names again? And I know there's more - so if you have any recs for "missing scenes" fics from these recent eps, please let me know!

As re the newly announce Doctor Who spoilers, I could write an essay about the whole thing, but I'd end up repeating

longtimegone, so instead I'll just say that I agree with about 99% of what she wrote here, which obviously contains spoilers for Doctor Who S4. Read At Your Own Risk. Hm, maybe next summer, I'll re-cut the vid I did for Modern Girl...

Last chance to request a vid for me to make! I'll make a poll on it tomorrow - there've been some amazing requests so far - and I'm going to add two of my own bunnies into the poll, too. My FiL is coming into town tomorrow night which means I'll have time to vid over the weekend, which I normally never do! Yay!

Meep! Long post! Off to the gym where I will treadmill to songs from Enchanted and Legally Blonde: The Musical. It's an interesting mix.