Job update. Well, OK, traffic update

For all of the congratulations last week, I thank you all.

I've been ramping up my first week at work - no really solid leads through work yet (drat!). The worst headache has been the traffic.

Monday it was fine.
Tuesday it was a nightmare - suffice it to say that it took over an hour for me to get to work on a route that should take 15 minutes.
Wednesday I decided to avoid Tuesday's traffic jams and encountered no fewer than three other traffic jams.
Thursday I was late getting out of the house and was to take the T. I called a cab - and the road on the usual back route to Oak Grove was blocked off for construction.
Today I took what I decided will be my regular route and had to stop for ambulances. It seems somebody had some sort of seizure while pulling into an intersection. Otherwise it wasn't so bad.

Did I mention the traffic has been bad this week? It's the worst traffic week I've ever encountered.

TV Blogging

Not much to report right now, but I'll get to it.

Licensed By Royalty International Channel is one of the more unusual anime programs I've seen. It's a spy series - no superpowers, no magic, no demons, no aliens, tech is roughly modern-normal. The agents themselves work for the government of Ishtar, a kingdom with very strong British lines. Matter of fact, all the accents on the show are British. It's a good spy show. It's also good anime. Check it out.

Mythbusters Discovery Channel is a show which is to myths what Good Eats is to cooking. Adam and Jamie take urban legends and myths about various things, such as getting decapitated by a ceiling fan or escaping from Alcatraz, and try to recreate the event as best they can with their mighty special effects knowledge and knowledgeable staff and contacts. They sometimes will also do a recreation doing the (better than the myth could) best *they* can. It's reality TV I can watch, and that's saying a lot.

UPDATE: Drawn Together Comedy Central has some truly awful humor, but I find it appeals to the awful-humor side of me. Sort of like Married With Children or The Man Show. Yeah, it's still on the TiVo list. I watch it when everybody else is away or distracted.