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Pokemon Go serves the same function - creating a game out of movement/exercise. It's not just the calorie counting - Fitbits think I'm running a gd marathon when I knit. The accuracy of the "steps" is dodgy at best. Might as well go into Habitica and create tasks to get you moving to win prizes and play with other friends.

Alton Brown always reminded us to "wash those chickeny hands!". You'd think Amy would have taken that board-flipping moment as a teachable moment to explain why she was doing that. I mean, at home I'd never think of flipping over a cutting board and putting a chicken-goo'ed surface face down on my countertop, but I did appreciate learning to use separate boards for pre-cooked/veggies and raw meats.

Oh, Max, you sweet summer child. Guess you caught the Idiot Ball this week.....

I decided to try reading the books again because I'm binge-watching the series and liking it. The end of chapter 6 sums up why I hate Clary and SImon. Mostly because "I'mma totally ignore your life-long expertise on a subject I know jack shit about and do what I want" is their goddamn motto every time they are involved in any decision. I mean, I'm watching 2x14 right now and those two chuckleheads are "Durr, durr, bringin' Simon along to the Seelie! Suck it up, Jace!" WTF? Have these two never read fairy tales? Seriously, I'm surprised that Simon didn't become a vampire because Jace insisted they wear garlic necklaces on a mission and Simon and Clary show up with basil tied around their neck because 'garlic is so stinky! You can still make spaghetti sauce with this though, so it's just as good!" Redhead is a terrible actress, and saddling her with that character and her idiocy does Not Help. Simon's actor does slightly better, but it's some crap writing to work with.

Or a fire exit? Or a big window he could throw some dumbbells through? That place was a fortress. That's where you want to hole up for the zombie apocalypse.

It would be more interesting if they rotated groups of artists, so a different set of shops would alternate and then merge when the field got small enough at the end. That way everyone gets more rest and everyone is in for the same length of time. Or what if there were a small pool of artists and when you won a challenge, you got sent to the back of the pool to chill until you were up again and it would get backfilled by the next artist from the pool. Although I guess that wears down the crappy artists faster, while giving already successful artists more rest....

OTOH, if Michigan Ave is closed down again because some asshat leaves their mystery bag leaning up against a light pole, the sheer negative karma and death vibes sent from everyone would probably cause them to lose the Race. :)

Yeah, that was my take too. Friendly fan ball-breaking kinda thing. It's not like he said "Cubs suck!" or something. That would be rude.

She also kept a eye across the street to see if any of the other teams had shown up with their dogs. :) Holy crap, you're right. There's no way they should have been able to pick up a cab from the cab line at O'Hare and go to Joliet. Isn't it actually illegal or something? (I was actually wondering where the "Chicagoland Speedway" was because I only know of the "Joliet speedway" and didn't realize it was the same thing until someone here said something, so maybe that's why I never caught the cab issue.)

I'm guessing they couldn't use cabs, otherwise there's no way in hell Brooke would have run 25 city blocks when you can't swing a dead city rat for hitting cabs in the Loop. See my previous post about how that leg was played, geographically. Scott & Brooke also took the red line to the Tower.

I was kinda hoping they'd be given Divvy bike fobs to ride around the Loop. :) Way too much map information time! The three-landmark part of the leg decided everything. Run the most efficiently, it's still 20+ city blocks. (CTA map - got the clue at the Red Line Monroe stop) Scott - Tower-Bridge-Fountain LoLo - Bridge-Fountain-Tower Tara&Joey - Fountain-the Wuh-BAHSH St Bridge-Temple!-Tower Scott&Brooke got on the Red Line, took it up to the Chicago stop and the Tower, and then it's (mostly) straight down Michigan to the bridge and then the Fountain, which puts you back in the heart of the Loop where the next stop most likely is (and City Hall indeed was). I have no idea WTF LoLo were doing. "Let's go up to the middle, then back down to where we were, then up to the top! Then all the way back down to the middle of the Loop." And T&J just... temple? Tara literally reads the "147 feet" aloud and Joey's all nah, nah, this is the place. Actually, I'm impressed about the Wabash St Bridge because Michigan Ave around the riverfront is two levels with like, GAPS, so if you don't cut over to Wabash by Ohio (from Water Tower), you end up on a street that ends abruptly, looking down on the (same) street you want to be on, all "How the fuck do I get over there?" (On the map, look at Michigan and Hubbard. You have to go down a level to reach Hubbard to get to over Wabash and then back up a level. Easy if you know to run down the pathway between the Wrigley Building halves (on the left of the pic), possibly confusing as fuck if you don't (plaza on the right overlooking Hubbard St. why is the road down there?)

This isn't what we meant when we said "Free Casey". Although the sweet, sweet release of death may be his only option at this point, if he's apologizing to Gabby for not being on board with Drunken Asshole Daddy's behavior.

Yeah, what was the point of that call? Also, I thought his tongue had turned septic, which is why it was black. By the time it got that bad, he'd be in much worse shape, if coherent at all. How long did he just sit around the house as it festered rather than just call an ambulance?

Everyone got the opportunity to see the entire thing, over the same period of time. So instead of seeing steps 1-10, Brooke might see steps 5-10 and then 1-5. The only real disadvantage would be that she couldn't watch a little, work along a little as she goes - she'd have to wait at least until 1-5 came around. Then again, she'd already know what 5-10 would be, so she could work ahead, knowing how these steps will turn out later on.

GOD, I hate this defense lawyer. Did he learn that "Chicago accent" by studying SNL skits?

Oh, god, I love absolutely every actor on ths show except the woman playing the horrible, horrible overbearing helicopter mom who ruins everything she touches. She has no boundaries and never shuts up and she's HORRIBLE. I don't know if I can even hate-watch this thing.

Yeah, when Shay died, that just killed me. I was kinda hoping he'd be Shay's babydaddy and they'd settle down as co-parenting roommates. 'Cause Kelly deserves all the love.

*cough* Tony DiNozzo, NCIS *cough*

"Hey, we need to cool down the reactor that's turning us all into jerky! Let's use the insta-freeze fertilizer to freeze some dirt that we could have shoveled out by the time we did the freezing! Oh, it's at least still big chunks of ice? Let's use that ice to melt into water to form mud to spackle some vents!" This show is increasingly making the new MacGuyver look like true rocket science. Also, WTF magic material were those dome walls made of that they couldn't cut a hole in it but instead had to blow up a reinforced airlock by making homemade explosive putty and... ok, I have no idea how the flames got through the airlock seal?

So no one wondered if Kira was the real target, given that she should have been the one in the dress? And what's the timeline here? Nella fires Giancarlo either at the show or shortly before - because Kira didn't know he'd been fired and no one in Nella's employ stops him from being backstage to tamper with the dress and talk to Kira. So Giancarlo manages to scare up some absorbent arsenic between then and mid-show and spray the dress. Unless he just keeps some around in his man purse for funsies. Kira goes on as the first look of the show. Giancarlo catches Kira right after she gets off the runway and FIRES her. "On Nella's behalf". Kira (who must not be very bright) believes that Nella would fire the brand new face of her brand through a proxy in the middle of a show for no discernible reason. In response, Kira flees without confronting Nella, causing Nella to be the only Kira-sized human in a room full of models that can fit the final dress. Nella drops dead.

But on a team of 5, how likely is it that all of them have Auntie-Mame parents who like to show up at work and disrupt their busy children's lives with ridiculous bullshit? It's not just an "aging parents" issue, it's that all the parents are practically cookie-cutter types that we're supposed to be charmed by when they are actually hideously inappropriate and/or abusive. Don't get me started on Senior and the crap everyone regularly put Tony through for not embracing his abuser. (Which is part of the Auntie Mame theme - they're full of life and sassy and it's all about them 24x7! Why aren't you letting them into your lives and hearts, you ungrateful kids?!?) It's just a little sad when I'm this relieved that Quinn's mom has dementia and her behavior is excusable. And won't have everyone telling Quinn to lighten up, her mother's delightful! [And even though I haaaaaaate that this is a go-to NCIS storyline, Mercedes Ruhl was delightful and played it just right, imho.] Of course, then there was the crabby admiral willing to INFECT AN ENTIRE GOVERNMENT OFFICE with a machine-killing virus because 'Amurrika don't back down, dammit!' Please tell me they quietly retired his ass. To the same old-folks' home Mercedes Ruhl will be in soon.

Ugh, it's the next one in the long line of annoying-as-hell geriatric parents making drama for the agents. What's with the writers' obsession with crusty old people who are supposedly charming and quirky but really are embarrassing and difficult and belong in a home? I thought CBS had been getting away from their Old Fart Channel reputation.

You know, the company can still provide private security services, lady. Gideon just doesn't want to make the institution of law enforcement pay to play.

I liked that they brought her to Molly's but then the clown car that is Molly's Management put on a show in the bar and made her flee.

But kind of cute. Nice to see him being an alderman without it being Draaaahmah! I like Severide with this girl; this is the steady Kelly that I can actually see being a Lieutenant. (Just like Casey's generally level-headed and cool when not dealing with Gabby.)