24

Today my back is a bit worse than it was yesterday and I am looking forward to a weekend of sitting or laying or anything else that involves little movement. Apart form meeting mates at a pub and going to an exhibition and walking Rumpole McQueen. And today is, of course, another day of ovrecast skies and coolish temperatures. I am beating myself up about not training and probably stresing about it and probably contributing to my back's dodginess. Bugger. So I'm going to the local physio on the way home to see if she can loosen me up and get me runinng sooner rather than later. A better approach than my usual one of 'I feel fine-ish, I'm off to [something bad for my back] for a while.'

Jack Bauer, who looks older than me, is able to run and jump and shoot and fight and drive a car within minutes of arriving - cuffed - in the US on a plane from China where he was in jail getting tortured and not speaking and he gets tortured a bit at home more and crashes a car and...me? I go a for a jog at the weekend, turn my ankle on a rock and tweak a leg muscle, two days later my back tweaks when jogging along a street and now I'm all 'I need a physio, my back aches, I need to sit down, blub-blub-blub.' Compared to Jack I am SO soft.

I watched 24. Twice. (And may herein spoil it for those who have not watched hours one-through-four of - I think - series 6. Consider yourself warned. Sorry about that paragraph before the warning, but that hardly gives away the plot. Anyway...) Not sure how may series I've not watched - all of them to date, 5 I think. But Mara was quite insistent this week and I weakened and watched the two hour season opener and last night's two hour special. From 06:00 to 10:00 has passed and Bauer has shot one of his mates in the neck (dead) and a nuke has gone off on the US mainland. All very murder-murder-kill-kill and formula hooks that have me at least partially hooked. Previously (read that in a manly, gruff voice as in 'previously on 24...') I have tended to avoid anything advertised as 'must see'. Seinfeld, Sex and the City, later series' of Friends and so on. I prefer to decide for myself what I 'must see' rather than get told what I 'must see' by the agents of the (typically commercial) TV channels who actually mean I 'must see' the products placed in the shows and the adverts placed in and around them. I enjoyed it enough to miss Law and Order - Criminal Intent. So it MUST be good.