My wife and I watched the original British version of “The Office” back in April and enjoyed it, so last month we thought we’d give the American version a try. We started with the pilot on 11/07 and finished season five on 12/12. That’s five seasons in five weeks! And now that we’re used to a season a week, we’ve caught up with a show moving at the glacially slow pace of a season per year. We don’t have tv (we’ve been watching via Netflix), so we could start watching via nbc.com or hulu.com, but the video quality isn’t that great, so I think we’ll just wait and watch the previous season each summer.

In other news, we went ice-skating last week (at the fabulous Genoveva Chavez Community Center). In my mind it seemed like a fun winter activity, but the reality didn’t quite live up to the dream. We discovered that ice is very hard, very cold, and very slippery. We hugged the walls, watched the zamboni resurface the ice, and fell. We both rather quickly decided we’d rather be swimming…

Check out the gorgeous Chavez Center pools:

Also, wildlife sightings! Twice recently, when opening our car hood, I’ve discovered a rabbit sleeping on the engine block! How crazy is that? I guess it’s a warm spot, but who knew rabbits could (and would) climb up on top of an engine block like that?

And last week we saw a weasel run past our back window carrying a mouse/rat in its mouth.