OK, I really don’t want you to have a Wyattastic day. Or maybe I do. I guess it depends on what the definition of “is” is. Wyattastic, for those of you not in the know, is a newly coined word. Here is the Urban Dictionary definition of Wyattastic:

1. When an episode of 24 turns out to have no action, just a bunch of filler. This usually occurs early in the season when useless subplots are being hashed out, as if anyone cares.

2. Based on the fact that when a certain contributor at a site called blogs4bauer participates in a liveblog of an episode of 24, the episode usually sucks…bad.
“Wow, tonight’s episode was Wyattastic!”

“Dana Walsh is a moron and this episode is so Wyattastic”
“Looks like we have another Wyattastic episode, unless Jack Bauer pulls another knife out of his belly”

The inspiration for this linguistic gem is blogs.4bauer.com contributor and Support Your Local Gunfighter blogger Wyatt Earp. He has a long and well documented history of liveblogging only the most sucktastic episodes of 24. However, sucktastic only takes you so far. Wyattastic episodes are several factors worse.

Of course the meaning of a word depends heavily on the context. In one instance you may be talking about how unbelievably bad something is: The President and Democrats are trying to shove the wyattastic health care bill down our throats. In another instance you may be using the milder definition that merely indicates something boring and uneventful: Things were so busy at work this week. I hope my weekend is wyattastic.

Your assignments for today:

1. Use Wyattastic in a sentence (in the comments).
2. If you’re a blogger, use Wyattastic in a blog post.

Time for me to wrap up this wyattastic post and get ready for a wyattastic day at work.

After my out of touch week, I am about through playing catch up. I’ve waded through pages of email, spam, and a very full feed reader, performed maintenance on my various blogs (including all the spam registrations at The Regiment), watched some football, hockey, and three out of the first four hours of 24.

I have to watch the fourth hour before hour five tonight. And speaking of hour five, be sure that you join the crew at the best 24 site anywhere — Blogs.4Bauer.com. Make sure that you remember to join us for the Season 8: 8 pm to 9 pm liveblogging event.

One of the other things I missed were two episodes of bRight@Night. I’ll take care of that immediately following Jack. More on that later.

Now, on with the show.

I know, most of you probably didn’t realize I wasn’t around. After all, when you’re just looking for pictures of Cote de Pablo, Liv Tyler, and Gabriel Anwar you may just miss the fact that I haven’t posted anything in a week. Well to keep you folks happy:

For the rest of you, a brief explanation. I will freely admit that it started with a mistake on my part. A mix-up with due dates and payments made and I didn’t pay Brighthouse on time. I really didn’t realize we were behind. Beyond that, we missed, or didn’t get, any notice that the bill was due. That’s where I stop taking the blame.

I was given the impression that I needed to go into their office. The problem was I was at work on Friday and couldn’t get off in time to get in there before they closed, besides which they decided to shut everything off mid morning. No Phone, no television, no internet. Still thinking, erroneously it turns out, that I needed to go into the office I went the weekend without being able to get online, missing my bRight@Night show, and missing the weekends playoff games. The cruelest cut was not seeing the premier of 24 season 8.

Of course it doesn’t end there. Monday was Martin Luther King day — another day for their office to be closed. And another two hours missed of the latest Jack. As you can imagine I was there first thing Tuesday morning. That’s where it get really good.

I was told two things that really got my blood pressure elevated. One, I never needed to go into the office (despite what we were first told). I could have taken care of things online or over the phone. Of course the facts that I couldn’t get online or use the home phone were just cruel irony. The second thing I learned was that the earliest they could get out to cut the service back on was Wednesday. Now understand that cutting service back on involved the complicated process of opening a box on the side of the house and reattaching a coaxial cable. When they finally did that (the good part is coming next) the procedure took a hot minute. So now you can add to the list of things missed the Massachusettes Massachusetts election returns. I didn’t find out about Brown’s great win until Wednesday morning when I got to work.

I was told that they were going to make sure that someone would hook things back up by 8pm. Around seven, with nothing going yet, I got on my cell and gave them a call. After listening to the same 60 bars of hold music over and over I was told that the note to come out on Wednesday never made it to dispatch and that there was no way anyone would be out that night.

I made it very clear that that was unacceptable. They made it very clear that there was nothing I could do about it. Turns out they were right.

Well, yesterday morning before noon they fixed things. In less than 60 seconds.

So, I’m back. I spend last night catching up on, well, everything. I watched the first three out of four episodes of 24 (I still have to catch up with the Blogs4Bauer liveblogging), read (and deleted) a ton of email, and tried to catch up on the items in my feed reader.

Thanks for listening to my rant. And for the Rule 5 rest of you:

We’re getting close to Christmas and close to 24 Season 8. With those things in mind, this is genius.

This also gives me the opportunity to test the new automatic embed feature of 2.9 and pimp the best 24 site in the universe — Blogs.4Bauer.com

WordPress version 2.9 has been released, which means I’ve been busy getting my publishing empire upgraded.

• bRight & Early — Done
• FloridImagine.com — Done
• Floridimagine.com/blog — Done
• Blog News Coop — Done
• Reclaim Conservatism — Done
• Blogs4Bauer — Done

That should do it for now. I’m going to bed.

And I’m up again. Meant to add the links last night. I’ve done so now.

Season 8 of 24 starts in just a bit over a month. That means the deranged crew at Blogs.4Bauer.com is gearing up to bring you the best coverage of all things Bauer once again.

Of course we all know that means 24 hotties as well. Wyatt has found the show has hired a contractor.

This Contractor:

Read the post at B4B to see what Nanzeen Contractor will be doing.

Personally, I’m looking for some more agent Red Hot.

Sure looks like a good season to me.

Yes, bRight & Early is where I do the majority of my writing, but it’s not the only place. Consider this a PSA for the other sites I work on. They need a variety of things, but mostly more eyes.

Reclaim Conservatism — http://reclaimconservatism.com/blog is a group effort with the aim of reclaiming conservative values. We are looking for bloggers (frequent or not so much) to contribute on that theme. You can follow @ReclaimCons on Twitter.

Blog News Co-op — http://blognewscoop.com/blog/ is a great idea that needs a push. I’m looking for original reporting by bloggers to use in a shared setting. That’s why our tag line is “by bloggers, for bloggers.” I’m looking for bloggers who want to contribute stories that other bloggers can use and link to. The only criteria is that it has to be original reporting rather than commenting on the writings of someone else. It doesn’t have to be a big national story. Coverage of a local council race or regional news story, interviews with local politicians or celebrities, and even your personal coverage of local events are all the type of stories I’m looking for. You can follow @BlogNewsCoop on Twitter.

FloridImagine.com — http://floridimagine.com/blog/ is my business site for web hosting and design, specializing in setting up WordPress blogs for others. Of course I do other sites as well. It is also a site for Florida news and information. I am looking for people who would like to write on Florida sports, events, news, people, and attractions. If you are a writer from here in the Sunshine State please let me know if you are interested in contributing. And if you are a blogger ready to move to your own domain or someone looking for a web site, please get in contact. On Twitter you can follow @FloridImagine.

Last, and far from least, is a blog I didn’t start but I am proud to be a part of — Blogs4Bauer — http://blogs.4bauer.com As you probably know, this is a site for all of you 24 fans. Season eight will be starting in January, and Blogs4Bauer will once again be the most irreverent fan site out there. The unique combination of snark and dedication is always a lot of fun. And while the real fun starts when the clock starts ticking on yet another long day in Jack Bauer’s life, we don’t rest during the “off season.” Casting news and other tidbits are up all year long. Check us out.

Well, that’s the roundup. Check out those other sites and see what’s going on there. Hopefully you’ll find something interesting, or even somewhere that you can contribute.

100 Post Marathon #52

With all that is going on I missed the season finale of 24. I’m watching it online right now.

100 Post Marathon #16

We already had the head butt. What did Jack do to come to such a peaceful outcome?

Kiefer Sutherland and the fashion designer he’s accused of head-butting at a Manhattan night club said Friday they resolved their differences, clearing the way for the charges to be dropped. Sutherland and Jack McCollough issued a brief joint statement Friday to The Associated Press through Sutherland’s attorney.

“I am sorry about what happened that night and sincerely regret that Mr. McCollough was injured,” Sutherland said in the statement.

It must be the Mad Cow!

If you can…

To learn more about the 100 Post Marathon read here and especially here.

Just so you know, I haven’t been a total slacker since hitting 200,000 visits.

Spent most of the weekend working on a new web site: Spot-Trot.com and on Spot’s Blog. If you happen to need a dog walking service in the Central Florida area between Tampa and Orlando, check them out.

I also spent some time under the hood at other sites I help out with. Web sites are like your lawn, there’s always something that needs to be done. And there are getting to be quite a few of them.

• FloridImagine.com — This is the site I am using for web design and hosting. The only visible part right now, because I need to do a lot more work behind the scenes, is the blog. If you are ready to make the move from blogger, or some other free service to your own site, or need some blog tweaking, I’m your guy. Just ask Wyatt or Dana.
• Blogs.4Bauer.com — The best 24 fan site on the web is like the women in Jack’s life (other than Red Hot) – needing constant attention. Be sure to be there for tonight’s Liveblog.
• Reclaim Conservatism — A site I really want to spend more time on is being kept active by Stix. Thank you! If you would like to be a contributor there, we are looking for people who would like to post on (or near) the topic of, what else, reclaiming conservatism. Register, and shoot me an email [lakelandjim at gmail dot com] so I can make you an author. [TMH/Pomalom I'm talking to you, too.]
• Blog News Co-op — Yes it needs lots of attention, and it’s nowhere near where I’d like it to be by now, but I’m convinced that it’s a good idea. Check it out an give me your thoughts. Please.

All of these site could use your link love. I can’t give them all the attention.

Join the unique crew at Blogs.4Bauer.com as we liveblog hour 15.

Don’t forget to visit Blogs.4Bauer.com as we Liveblog hour 9. Also, there’s still time to get your guess in for this weeks B.4B Kill Counter.