Tuned in and watched the season finale for Bones last night. Major WTF??? until I realized that the episode was deliberately done as one of those kooky 'let's be weird' types. In this case, let's have a murder set in a completely imaginary setting - a nightclub called "the Lab", in this case. I'm still not sure if it was supposed to be Booth's hallucination while comatose or Brennan's literary exercise while waiting for Booth to wake up from his coma. Either way, while kinda-sorta-entertaining on its own, it proved to be extremely frustrating as a season closer as the story from last episode was only advanced by about 30 seconds worth of dialogue at the end when we learn that (1) yes, Booth survived surgery for his brain tumour, but (2) he had a bad reaction to the anesthetic, which left him in a coma for four days, and (3) the first thing he asks Brennan after he wakes up is "who're you?"
Drive a body nuts or what?
Wandering around the web looking to see what info there is for season five, apparently Fox only ordered 6 scripts for season 5. I really like this show, so fingers crossed that Fox orders 18 more so there'll be a full season 5.

Made an interesting discovery today - whatever it is that periodically plagues me with wall-to-wall... hmm, well more accurately 'bone-to-bone' joint and muscle pain is inflammation centred. In my quadrennial day of work I was running the local provincial election polling booth on Tuesday, and much to my annoyance, was having root-canal-quality pain shoulder-to-fingertips on both arms, plus hips, knees, neck, etc. You know, that niggling, gnawing, who-scraped-out-the-marrow-of my-bones-with-an-icepick-and-left-the-icepick-in feeling covered by the general term 'dull ache'.
Election day, I was tossing back fast-acting extra-strength acetaminophen like they were candies, and they might as well have been for all the pain relief I was getting. Not bloody much. Yesterday was another bout of great stiff and soreness. So switched to aspirin this morning - a hefty dose - and wow, pain magnificently reduced. Definitely down to quite bearable. I have mobility, yesssss.
Suppose the pain and inflammation means I oughta go see the quack. Which will mean stopping taking aspirin should a blood test be called for, or there won't be anything to test. On the other hand, what is a doctor going to say? It's either arthritis or it's not; not bloody much anyone can do for non-specific pain-in-joints without redness/swelling in either case. I will be reminded I need to exercise regularly and lose a lot of weight, given approval to take aspirin as long as my stomach doesn't ulcerate, and that will be about it. For that, I might as well not bother the doc.
Yes, I agree.

My new Satie CD showed up and it is lovely. Two disks worth, bliss. Possibly the most soothing music ever, right on a par with "Officium" by Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble. I've never listened to Satie played by anyone but Reinbert de Leeuw; not sure if I want to, I very much enjoy listening to Satie done his way.

At the end of this month I'll have completed twenty years on the Haida Gwaii Museum Board. And that's it; they're set to recruit someone else to be the director from Port Clements. What's strange is that it's hard to say goodbye, but I feel good about saying it. Twenty years is too long to be on any board. And I'll still be a member of the society.

A new interest for me may be helping to keep the Community Hall going here in Port Clements. I cannot understand why Council basically just shut it down and stopped all use of the facility effective January 5, 2009. It's not as if we have anything in town that we can replace it with - they're trying to suggest taking over the school gym will do, but obviously haven't thought that one through. Nothing wrong with the gym as a gym, it functions just fine. As a community hall... okay - there's only two toilets, neither one wheel-chair accessible; there's no kitchen; no downstairs storage for tables/chairs; no stage; absolutely dreadful acoustics; no sound system; no large screen for projecting movies; the floor is so fragile, kids can't even play floor hockey in there.
The Community Hall isn't marvelous, but it's adequate. It already has washrooms, including a wheelchair accessible one; there's a kitchen and a separate bar, both with big serving hatches; the floor is pretty tough; there's a stage and there's a large screen. It needs insulation and a better heating system, could do with a kitchen reno and probably a new roof, the usual sort of on-going repairs any building needs. Otherwise, it's perfectly serviceable, and I'm determined - along with several others - that it will stay in service.