Let me run down for you a “schedule,” if you will, of my typical Monday night.

I generally get home between 5:30 and 6 and get started on dinner. After everyone’s eaten, me and the wife spend 45 minutes or so playing with the daughter before it’s time for her bath/getting ready for bed/reading a book to her/her going to sleep. After that (now around 8:30) I spend 30 minutes or so with the wife talking (because we really don’t see each other much) before turning my attention to homework for 3 or 4 hours before I pass out from exhaustion.

That doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for television viewing.

Thankfully, I’ve got one of those nifty DVR’s (I love you Time Warner!) for all my television recording needs. Monday is an especially important night because I’m a big supporter of all things Heroes (the wife really likes Journeyman, which is pretty solid and it’s set in my adopted hometown of San Francisco, so I’m compelled to watch) .

Last night, I was supposed to be writing a paper. Forces conspired to make this impossible. Forces, in this case, referring to my wife being forced to work late for some “budget related” reasons that necessitated in me picking up the daughter from day care (day care, mind you, in Lake Forest, and I work in Hemet…). But that, as you might guess (or, might not, whatever) meant that the wife and I had to switch cars, since her car has the kid’s car seat in it. Well, in all the hustle and/or assorted bustle of juggling the kid and whatnot, I forgot my books and laptop in my car. After getting some dinner with the kid, she fell asleep on the ride home, and once we were home she was just coherent enough to let me changer her diaper, put on her pajamas, and drink a bottle while half asleep on the couch before completely passing out.

What does any of this have to do with Heroes, right? Well, I now had one fully asleep 15 month-old, no accessible school material, no wife at home, and a few hours to kill. So, lucky for me, I was able to get caught up with my favorite group of broadcast, live-action, comic booky characters.

Spoiler Alert!

I have to say that Kensai turning out to be Adam Munroe, in hindsight, was pretty obvious. And I did catch on before it was revealed at the end of Monday’s episode. But nevertheless, it’s a plot twist I really like.

As an aside, I wonder if David Anders is always going to play a villain? I mean, yeah, he’s good at it, but can’t someone give the guy something else to do?

Anyway, this season is, I think, just as solid as what I saw from last year (which, admittedly, I had class on Monday last year, and no DVR, so I only saw about half of it) and at least this “chapter” will be resolved before they run out of scripts.