Labor Day Half Marathon

Good Lord, not the running-outside kind. Haven't hit real pavement since finishing the 5K two Sundays ago; I'm not sure where I should start at in the running regimen before looking ahead to the more-or-less 8K on Thanksgiving.

No, with Eleanor working all afternoon and the Mets running away with another loss, I was inspired by a few things and resumed watching The Newsroom. I'd been roughly current through the third episode, but the New Years Eve one just lost me when I first started watching. It magnified the biggest problem I'd had since the premiere: Sorkin spending too much time on the inside interpersonals and not enough on these guys working and making the point.

Slowly, though, it came around for me:

( Are week-four spoilers still spoilers? )

So now I'm halfway, with Number 6 locked and loaded and the rest comfortably on the way. I've heard a September 25th date for DVD release (careful- there's a 2004 movie called The Newsroom which is not what you'd want), and I'd love to see the behind-scenery of this one.

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In unrelated news, comment spam has returned with a vengeance over the past several days. Nothing patently offensive- yet- but long strings of gibberish surrounding the money-shot link they're trying to increase pagerank on. It's hitting new entries and a bunch of random old ones, and it's getting me thinking about a move again. Not that anyone not named Louis V****** is going to care at this point.