Back on the treadmill today: 40 minutes 23 seconds, 2.41 miles, 311 calories burned. Would have gone longer, but we were in the middle of a thunderstorm and I thought it best to get off the electric equipment.

Alias was great last night. I am sick of Hayden Chase and she needs either an attitude adjustment, or reassignment. Maybe she can get a job on "24". Bring back Kendall! One interesting thing about something Irina and Jack said last night - Jack told Irina that Nadia was really an exceptional girl. And Irina responded, "I wonder where she gets that from" with a strange look to Jack. I wonder if Sloane ever did a dna test on Nadia. Could Nadia, in fact, be Jack's daughter??? I don't remember if a dna test was done. I may have to watch some of the old episodes. On the evil message board, some idiot actually said they should kill off Sydney, Jack and Vaughn - well the show is about Sydney so people either need to suck it up and like the fact that it's all about her, or they need to watch something else. That's like saying "Let's have Baywatch, without the beach. Or Airwolf without the helicopter. Or Andromeda without the ship." Some of these people are just stupid. And someone else on the evil message board asked "Doesn't anyone ever stay dead on this show?" This was in response to Irina coming back after Jack had 'killed' her. Well, Danny is still dead. Dixon's wife is still dead. Francie is still dead. Emily is still dead. I will say that Lauren is still dead, but I'm not certain that she will stay dead. Irina would have stayed dead if it wasn't for the fact that a miracle happened and Lena Olin agreed to come back for another episode or two. As for Sloane, is he a bad guy or isn't he? I think he is a bad guy without the evil intentions. I think he really does want to use the Muller device to cleanse the world, but to make the world a better place. Elena just wants death and destruction. Remembering back to season 1, Sloane said that when he left the CIA for the Alliance it was because he had become disillusioned with the CIA and what the world had become. I think he felt that the CIA was just an exercise in futility, that evil was still there no matter how many missions they had and how many people they put away.