"24"

I think I'm going to stop saying that I stay up too late, and admit that I've changed my body clock. I'm like the 3 month old who has it's days and nights mixed up! Changing back will be Job 1 for the rest of the week.
But, you'll be glad to know, the world is safe, or at least California is, once again, safe from nuclear threat. True, we stayed up too late and slept in this morning. And, true, Jack has lost the girl (again) and has had to go into hiding. But Tony and Michelle are together again, Chloe has earned a little respect and Kim and Chase are, well, where are they? Yeah, we're a couple of seasons behind, but we've been enjoying catching up.
We aren't huge TV watchers, usually picking a couple shows to watch and leaving the rest for someone else. In the past it's been ER, Law and Order and The Love Boat (we were very young!) But, as it happens, and, thankfully, in the case of The Love Boat, we moved on to others. Right now the frontrunners are The Unit and Criminal Minds. But there's this doggone writers' strike and we're tired of reruns. So the nice people at Netflix have been sending up DVDs. They really are nice, those people at Netflix. If you've been thinking about it, take the plunge.
We had been hearing about 24 for years, of course. At first, I thought the premise was kind of silly; follow a guy around for every minute of 24 hours. That's a season? But I wasted, er, watched a season of "I love her, she loves someone else, he loves me" on ER. Then I found out Jack never goes to the bathroom, picks his nose, or eats, some of which I'd rather not see. (He may pick, or cut off, someone else's nose, though. Just a warning.) So we decided to give it a try. Being advised that 1) it'd be best to watch from Season 1 and 2) it's a pain to wait for the next episode each week, we decided it'd be best to get the seasons on DVD and watch them one by one. We figured, one episode a night. We started at about 10pm one night late in December 2005. We went to bed at 3am. It was too gripping to toddle off to bed after one episode. It's kind of been that way since. We have to make solemn promises to each other to cut each other off if we want to stay watching too late. It was worse when the kids watched with us, as they did until Season 3. MSP lost interest midway through that one. EP lost interest midway through this last one, Season 4. He missed out on Jack almost being sent to Chinese prison, although he didn't mind missing the Tony/Michelle kissy face. We didn't miss out on grumpy kids the next morning.
And Kiefer has his own issues, but they're beyond the scope of this blog.