I gladly say Welcome Back to television. 24 is in it’s new season (and is so much better to watch via DVR than with commercials!) and is already as good as I want it to be. Rome has returned as well – I didn’t expect a second season, because I thought it was a mini-series, not a series – and it’s welcomed as well. Both are living up to my expectations. Especially now that football is “over” for me this seasons… pitchers and catchers don’t report for at least a month. By the time Rome is over, the Sopranos will kick off their last season.

I’m going to Vegas in the Spring – that’s almost more of a “welcome home” than a “welcome back” – and the All Star Game is returning to Yankee Stadium in 2008 for the first time in I can’t remember when… and it’s certainly the last time it will be welcomed to that home before the old stadium is retired – the new stadium is slated to open in 2009.

Wonder if Hallmark has a card for all of that in one that I could send to myself…