…and it was glorious.

Beyond trying to keep the house at a reasonable level of clean and doing the usual Saturday morning shopping, did relatively little that wasn’t recreation-related. Checked out a neat little kebob place in the city and played a few hands of Munchkin, but little in the way of the large, single-use Responsibilities™ that have been dominating the last couple of weeks.

It was a welcome change.

Also, thanks to the magic of Netflix instant watch, I watched a bunch of episodes of Leverage, a neat little basic cable show I wasn’t really aware of until I heard mention of it off-hand as something I might enjoy. And I did. It’s a basic “adventure/heist of the week” show in the classic Cannell mode, about a group of misfit criminals-with-hearts-of-gold who “pick up with where the law leaves off” by helping, via questionably legal means, various innocent victims of the week.

Honestly, it sometimes feels like it completely rips off old A-Team script outlines, and adheres vigilantly to the formula, though does so in an endearing, geeky, snarky way, which makes me kind of love it.

It’s the little things, like the way most all of the cover identities used are Doctor Who-derived, the wedging in of matter-of-fact (and explanation free!) jokes about things like bittorrent and MMORPGs that acutally make sense, and the near ubiquitous use of “genre” character actors, like Amin Shimmerman, Danny Strong and Mark Sheppard, rather than the usual plug-ins from network cop/doctor/lawyer procedurals, that make it feel like “my people” are at least a little involved in the production; and of course, I like fanservice as much as the next geek does.

And, most of the actual tech and technique at least tries to make sense, though the use of the “visible laser security matrix” (and subsequent means of defeating it) was really stretching it. It’s a good thing that the characters (particularly the one who does the laser defeating, gymnastics and all) are so damned endearing.