My mom’s still not feeling well, but she has a doctor’s appointment tomorrow, and my father’s been staying home to nurse her. He also picked up the dog from the kennel this afternoon, where Tucker has been since Friday evening — since dropping him off Saturday morning, before six, wasn’t an option. He’s clearly happy to be back home.
Beyond that, it was pretty much just a normal Monday. My new iPad case arrived in the mail, and I really like it so far. It’s a different kind of case than the one Apple sold me, in that it doesn’t open up, to be used while the iPad is sitting inside it. But I like the look of this case a lot more, and it seems to offer the same, if not a higher, level of protection when carrying the device around.
I sat on the couch with the dog this evening, using the iPad (I don’t think he likes it), and watching tonight’s episode of House. I’m not entirely sure what to think about House anymore. I’m growing increasingly less forgiving of the show’s faults with each passing episode, and I’m starting to wonder if maybe I should just bail on it. I thought that tonight’s episode was considerably better than the show has been in awhile, but mostly because it was nice to see Andre Braugher again and bring the focus again squarely onto House, the character, like they did in the powerful season premiere. (A premiere that, I’ve thought more than once, maybe should have been a finale.) The episode mostly discarded the elements that haven’t been working so well, or at least pushed them to the sidelines, which was a welcome relief, but also underlined why those elements are such problems. I think House is proof that a show can be acted very well, and even be written well, scene to scene, and still fall apart when it doesn’t know what to do with its characters. When it forces them into relationships that don’t make sense, into behaviors that are inconsistent with their past actions, or into scenes that exist only to keep those relationships and behaviors going.
There’s one more episode left in the season, though, so maybe they can turn this thing around yet.
