i'm not proud of what i did this weekend, but at least i did not commit a crime.

what i did this weekend, beginning at 10:30 friday night, ending at 6:00 on sunday afternoon, and interrupted only for a mid-saturday walk/hoops watching, a cats game saturday night, some phone time, and some sleep: watched 24. (note: there was not a shower in there.) the entire first season. borrowed from a co-worker friday night, and planned to be returned sometime in the next two weeks, and i couldn't be stopped. it's pretty incredible television.

got quality, quality phone time in with the sister on friday night, minutes into the beginning of my dvd binge. she sounded well, and was quite silly. i can't remember any of her jokes, but i think she was fairly on top of her game.

also had the joy of receiving a phone call from brysi, who is now officially friend number five to be engaged. the gbs crew begins their weddings in november (kevin), and brysi's is now scheduled for april of 2007. (that's 26 months, far more than the 14-month nemo plan, although nemo's took, what, 32 years to happen.)

speaking of nemo, i heard him do the first 10 or so minutes of emu-wmu women's hoops, and i'm proud to call myself the only internet listener without a family connection to the game (i'd imagine). nemo's quite impressive. very conversational. solid variation on his descriptive verbs. he had a great verb for "point guard does nothing," "scans the scene," or something. he's very very natural, and very good. jcf, meanwhile, is far more atuned to the stats monitor than i would've expected, given his experience level. while nemo's had the stats monitor for 100% of his broadcasting career, jcf's number is probably closer to 1%. Cool that the curmudgeon has adjusted, though. my connection got choppy at about the 10 minute point, so i gave up to watch the fairly disappointing cats.

saw pieces of the grammys tonight. happy for kanye winning rap album of the year, although i certainly think he - or anybody - should have won album of the year instead of the ray charles thing. but, of course, the grammys are pretty disposable, as we all know. i mean, the last steely dan album won album of the year...sigh. i was beyond happy to see loretta lynn win country album of the year, bucking the 'guy performs and is immediately given an award' trend (tim mcgraw seemed destined to win, and his 'live like you're dying' song is the most contrived, cliched, and awful song i've ever heard, even by country standards.). loretta lynn was outstanding on her acceptance speech, doing a wonderful job (with the help of jack white) on the bossy grandma persona.

and the 'choral performance' of 'across the universe' was beyond awful. and steven tyler got a major verse on it. and they ended it by singing 'something's gonna change the world.' (a tsunami benefit, of course.) the highlight was brian wilson - confused as always - getting a one-bar solo. the lowlight was the rest.

update, 11:35 monday night: my god, i forgot to mention how bad the opening act sucked. franz and maroon 5 and black eyed peas and los lonely boys just sort of yelling their choruses. ugh.