I accomplished my weekend goals by 2PM yesterday afternoon. Not that they were lofty ones. I got the chains off my tractor, which took way longer than it should have, thanks to a stubborn quick link in the inside of one wheel that took forever to get off. And I got the snow tires off the car. So if I get motivated after grocery shopping today, I can mount the new mailbox I bought weeks ago and have been waiting for decent weather to replace the old one with.

Then the reality of the end of the weekend sets in, and Sunday night will be a little sadder this week, as there is no new Shameless. I feel a real connection to Frank Gallagher – he’s definitely a kindred spirit. He’s what my life could have been like if I only had the courage to live free (plus he must’ve gotten laid a lot, based on the number of kids he’s got – though I’m not sure we can count Liam. That’s Showtime Liam, anyway, not Channel 4 Liam).

That sadness is somewhat mitigated by the fact that the new season of Nurse Jackie starts tonight. Apparently I’m drawn to alcoholics and drug addicts, though pills have never been my thing, thank goodness. I prefer organic mind-altering substances for the most part.

Another new show starts on Showtime tonight as well (though it’s on at 10pm EDT so I won’t be catching it live – though you can watch the first episode online) called “Years of Living Dangerously.” It’s about Climate Change and you might be surprised (I was) to hear that Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the Executive Producers (also James Cameron, among others). It also features “correspondents” like Harrison FOrd, Matt Damon, out old pal Tom Friedman, Don Cheadle, Chris Hayes, Olivia Munn, Lesley Stahl, and Michael C. Hall (who will hopefully be going out there and cutting climate deniers into easily manages pieces and dumping them in the ocean).

I hadn’t heard of this until the other day when somebody left a flyer (or is it flier?) in our mailbox inviting us to a “watch party” for it at the local library, with a discussion afterwards. Sounds like one of those quaint, touchy-feely MoveOn.org type ideas.

So I’ll record it and watch it and no doubt shake my head and gasp at all the appropriate places (but if they try to show me drowning polar bears or something, I’m turning it off). But the fact is, I’m already on board and don’t need convincing, though frankly I think it’s too late.

That’s what I’d like to tell all this morons that say it’s all a hoax perpetrated by Al Gore. First, it’s for real whether you believe it or not, and second, don’t worry – you idiots have won. Even if the world immediately started getting serious about this, it’s already too late to do more than mitigate some of the effects. At best, we could make things a little less shitty – but I don’t see that happening.

Hey, Al Gore’s not tricking me into cleaner air and developing energy sources that we don’t get need to import from a bunch of fanatics that hate our being in their part of the world and want to see us all dead.

Fortunately, seeing as I don’t live near the water, I’ll be dead before this has much of an impact on me. Except for shit like the winters not being cold enough to kill all the Brown Recluse spiders living in my cardboard piles.

Oh well, time to scurry off to do the weekly shopping.