I don't like the rain.

I'm back from my business trip. Which, by the way, was to Atlanta. Sorry I forgot to mention that little detail in my last post. The trip was fantastic. We had a really great, productive meeting, and I felt totally on the ball. I had answers to all the questions and we were able to really collaborate and brainstorm. The meeting ran completely on schedule and I got a lot of really useful feedback to start doing Round 2 of this website. And I got the sense that the clients really liked me.

Also, on Wednesday night I totally watched Moment of Truth, because I knew Torsten would never agree to watch it so it was my only opportunity to see it. And all these bloggy people kept telling me that even though it looked like a terrible show, I had to watch it, just once.

So, I watched it. Just once. And never again. Honestly, I just didn't like it. Not because it gave me that weird squirmy feeling that shows like that can give. I didn't even like it as a guilty pleasure. I just thought it was dull. First of all, the secrets just aren't that interesting. Okay, the guy has a gambling problem and hit on his girlfriend's friend once right after they started dating. Fine, the beauty queen thinks she's prettier than her sister (which is true). Juicy.

The other thing that I can't deal with is how incredibly slowly the show moves. It is just so dragged out. It's not just those ridiculous long pauses while you wait to hear if the answer is true or false. It's the whole rigmarole about asking whether the person really wants to continue and risk facing more and more questions. On and on and on just to learn a bunch of boring secrets about random people.

And this is what I really don't get. The people act all shocked and horrified whenever they hear a question. And when they're deciding if they're going to keep going they act all anxious, like they're afraid of what questions they're going to be asked.

But the whole premise of the show is that they took the polygraph test ahead of time. So they KNOW what the questions are going to be. I mean, yeah, there were 50 questions on the polygraph and only 21 of them will be asked on the show, but still, they know what the possibilities are. They therefore have fair warning if there's a horrible question that they won't want to answer on national television. And if there were such a question, they can pretty much bet that it will be asked on the show. It's not like the producers are going to let slide the opportunity to, for example, force a guy to tell his wife he cheated on her.

So, the show pretty much sucked. And I don't see the appeal. Can someone please explain it to me?

Anyway, this feels like a very short week, mostly because of the business trip. It's already Friday and the Super Bowl is on Sunday. I like watching football but I'm not really supporting either side. What I'm looking forward to is a good game, great commercials, and the little Super Bowl gathering that we're having with a few friends. That will be the best part.