Month: August 2007

Using Paypal as an alternative to writing checks.

I have an employer who suffers from Mailitis. I am a fellow sufferer so we came up with a way for him to pay me using Paypal which does away with the whole mailing a letter thing. Only trouble is Paypal is going to get 12 dollars each time I get paid. 12 dollars? There has to be another way. And get this: Paypal took one dollar out of my account. For what reason? I don’t know. This worries me. This account-tweasing was done before I performed the Request Money request of my boss. The not funny thing is I think it was some sort of charge because I called customer service. Uncool.

I don’t think using Paypal as a means to get paid is good for anyone other than Paypal.

I’ve succumbed to a TV show, part two,Seasons 1 and 2

I was able to track down all the DVD s from Blockbuster and watched the 1st and 2cnd season of Grey’s Anatomy.I’m so out of it that I thought that was it.Turns out there is another season,the 3rd season…but it isn’t out to rent yet. I survived the ribbing I got for wanting to watch my stories (it is a soap, you know) not sure how gracefully my roommates will take another DVD marathon. Although I did try to watch while they were asleep, I was caught a few times by the baseball fiend.

So how was it? Well, it’s a weepy drama set in a hospital. Almost every patient admitted almost dies (drama) or if they survive – they or their family invariably have some story to tell or a solemn speech to make that teaches our interns a valuable Life Lesson(learning). The interns are close(hugging) even though from the beginning we were told they would by vying for one favored position, etc.

What did I like? I love Sandra Oh from way back,Double Happiness,Last Night and Sideways in which she was brilliant. I don’t really like Isiah Washington and their relationship was only made palatable to me because of Sandra Oh. George O’Malley bugs the hell out of me.Whatsit ? T.R. Night? From reading Grey’s Anatomy fan blogs I gathered that Washington called Night a gay slur and I guess outed him so Washington was fired…ohhhh.

I will spare you my run-down of rest of the cast and how I feel about their characters or acting styles.

The love stuff. There is a lot of love stuff. It’s a soap. Love stuff is the glue of any soap. I have no time for George or Callie.Meredith and Derek end season 2 with a bang and thank God. That gets rid of the preternaturally insipid,no chin having Chris O’ Donnell vet character… But not for one second did I believe that Meredith’s boyfriend’s wife coming back on the scene was anything other than a plot device so that we’d all be roiling with anticipation for their inevitable getting back together.

Duh.

There are the cameos by famous actors. Christina Ricci,Brooke Smith and Rosanna Arquette were the most memorable. Rosanna’s was ridiculously silly but memorable.

What Grey’s has that kept me watching was a lot of on screen chemistry and over the top dramatic plot twists.An unexploded artillery shell in a man’s chest and he doesn’t die but the shell does explode once it is out of his body… A rogue shooter who returns to finish the job and of course shoots Dr.Burke(Isiah Washington) on his way back to perform a heart transplant.

Sometimes the show made me cringe when it got too mushy or too learny-huggy but my credibility is shot because I did watch about 37 episodes in one week. I can’t really come off as someone who can take it or leave it at this point.

One last thing. Ellen Pompeo (Meredith) is very, very thin. During any scene that called for her to eat something it always looked like she was not really eating.She does not convince as an eater of food.