Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, well fine

There are a couple of new thirtysomething episodes up at YouTube. Post-Op, which is not one of my favorites, and Happy New Year, which totally IS. And as a bonus, it features Louis DiMucci as Peter Montefiore (singing, no less). A really excellent episode all around, really, with tons going on with each character. The perfect combination of grown-ups and kids, quiet and loud, happy and sad. With a little James Joyce thrown in for good measure. It is really strange, watching it again, how familiar it is, how I can recite so many of the lines. I have really spent an inordinate number of hours in my life watching thirtysomething. And my life has been all the better for it! I swear.

American Experience: New Orleans airs Monday night on PBS. Check your local listings for times. I've never seen an American Experience I didn't like, and I have high hopes for this one.

I enjoyed reading Pajiba's take on the best tearjerking moments of recent years. I think I've seen all of the ones they list. I'll have to think about my own favorite tearjerking moments. I was glad to see In America mentioned because I loved that movie, but when watching the scene again, I was reminded that I didn't really get the last line. I still don't.

Anyway. I don't really know what else to say. It looks like I have a leak in my plumbing line, probably somewhere underneath my driveway. Next week the estimates from plumbers will begin. I don't want to blow all my savings on it. It can't be cheap to rip out a plumbing line and put in a new one and re-pave a driveway JESUS CHRIST. My sister advised me to get a zero interest credit card and pay for it with that rather than wipe out my savings. She is a financial guru so I tend to heed her advice on such matters. I am choosing not to think about it until the weekend is over.

Now I must prepare to eat lots of bread and garlic spread.