Heroes comes back, etc

Hoppy Rosenmontag! A few random things:

• Heroes (the second half of season 3, i.e. the new volume 'Fugitives') begins TONIGHT on BBC2 at 10pm German time. This is a new night (MONDAYS). As before, though, the second episode will air at 11:30 on BBC3, so there's two new ones for us tonight.
  

• Did you know that all three seasons of Bionic Woman (I mean the good one from 70's, not that crap they tried to pass off as Bionic Woman last year) is available in Germany, but not in the US? Weird. Some rights issue. Here it's called "Die Sieben Millionen Dollar Frau" ('The Seven Million Dollar Woman', lol) and I'm renting them from our DVD delivery service, Videobuster.de (why they want to "bust" the videos, I don't know, but at least we get things in the top 10 on our list, unlike the now defunct Amango). Anyway, Dr Franklin's Fembots are still scary. Man, those freaked the crap out of me when I was a kid.

• Rewe has a new diet Schinken, like little tiny bacon pieces, that are excellent as bacon bits on salads. I just cook it all up, let it cool and put it in the fridge and, tada, bacon bits for a few days :-) 30g is only about 35 calories. Now if only Germany had salad dressing that didn't taste like crap. There's that bland, slightly sweet jogurt stuff and then "American" (which is like 1000 Island... funk-nasty) and some other stuff that claims to have flavor ("Garlic", "French", etc) but all just tastes like the icky jogurt stuff. In fact, do Germans realize that it's possible to put something other than runny jogurt on salad??? Runny jogurt and corn. What's with the corn on salad? You can barely buy bags of salad without corn. Freaks. Making your own salad dressing isn't that tough, but the shelf life can't compete with good old chemical-ed-up bottles of Wishbone or Kraft. And, last point, I don't think Germans have ever latched onto that salad-as-a-meal idea. Pity, pity, pity.
  

• I'm tired of it being gray and rainy, but as soon as it's sunny I'll be more depressed because I can't go anywhere due to my knee. Ugh.

• Got to think pretty soon about a balcony garden and order some seeds. I plan to write a post about PayPal & credit card friendly online seed shops. Last year I did virtually nothing on the balcony and it's going to take a LOT of work out there just to get things ready. A lot of slimy, stinky, spidery, knee-hurting work. Ugh. But it will be worth it for chile peppers, right?

• German taxes suck. Doing tax returns for two countries sucks even more.

• But having a FRIDGE that's bigger than a postage stamp freakin' RULES!!!!