Good morning everybody,
Been a tough few days. I never mentioned how the other day how my internet went out over the weekend. Killed my browsing and of course my blogging capabilities, so it’s been a little while. Everything looks like it is back to normal, so here we go. We are right in the midst of the of the holiday season, so everything is about that right now. Chanukah is almost over for us right now and it has been a lot of fun. For the eight nights, we have given smaller gifts each of the nights and save the big gifts for the last night. One of those include a slurpee machine so we’re hoping the kids will be ecstatic since they ask for them all the time. Actually, my kids wake up in the morning asking for their gifts and we don’t give them out until night time, so it’s a little bit of leverage we have for during the day. I know it’s terrible of us but whatever works for three kids to behave is justified.
This is my favorite time of the year overall. Starting with Halloween time since I like the countdown to Thanksgiving and then the December holidays. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, period. It is a national holiday for America, no matter what religion you are, you get to celebrate the country you live in. Just a warm feeling of family and loved ones. Then the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas time is fantastic. It just feels like there is a change in the air the countdown begins. Seeing the lights and decorations go up, hearing the holiday music on the radio, the hustle and bustle of people shopping and everybody being friendly to each other. (Obviously not at stores, where everybody is nuts trying to get their gifts). My kids happen to be off from school for the next two days and I am actually looking forward to that. It will be nice to do things with them during the day and enjoy the holiday. We taped several holiday specials and we will have a mini-marathon tomorrow. Make some popcorn and use their new slurpee machine. I can’t wait.
Hope you all enjoy your holiday season as well,
Jonathan
Good Morning everyone,
It is an absolutely dreary day here in south Florida. The sky is dark and grey and it is pouring. To top that off, my wife is home sick today. Now, I would normally love it if my wife was home to help take care of the baby but not when she is home sick so I have to take care of her as well. Doesn’t she realize that I have enough to do without having to take care of her also? Relax, just kidding. She has caught what everyone else around here has had. From my kids to my parents and now my wife. I told you yesterday that the jinx is a very powerful tool. I am just waiting for my 2 kids in school to come down with something tonight so I will have to take care of the 4 of them tomorrow. Sigh, a house dad’s work is never done.
Had been planning to do some more holiday shopping today, I like doing it during the week when most people are working, but it seems like that is now out of the question. So, I figured that in between times of taking care of everybody, I’d catch up on my tv shows and try to reduce the tivo hours being stored. I am debating starting a second blog just for television, we will see. I’ll keep you all posted. Anyway, my daily ritual is to watch Letterman from the night before followed by Craig Ferguson. Can’t watch them at night since it is on too late and I have to get up early to take care of the little one. I’ve said it before but I will reiterate, I know that Leno and Conan are more popular than these two but in no way better. Letterman cracks me up day after day. Today he had on Regis who is a great interview period. I did find a little fault with Letterman as he had kid scientists on last night and I guess his humor is acerbic sometimes and I thought for sure he was going to make the two boys cry. As for Ferguson, I enjoyed him on the Drew Carey Show, but you never saw his real persona. I find the guy charming, engaging and witty. I think Conan has good routines but many times his interviewing style seems forced and stilted whereas Ferguson seems to talk easily and conversationally. As for Leno, what can I say? I am a big Letterman fan from way back and I used to enjoy Leno. I know it’s silly, but I guess I hold it against Leno for the “taking” of the Tonight Show away from Letterman. I guess I took sides but I do think Leno’s funny and quick-witted but also can be a kiss-up to celebrities. I think I just find Letterman’s style funnier. To each his own.
Now, one last thing before I go. I know regular readers are familiar with my weekly LOST rants. I am sorry but I was watching DAYBREAK just now and they always show a clip of the upcoming season of LOST during the commercials and it reminded me again, How could they take LOST off the air until February? It still makes no sense and it killed me with last night’s teaser how the flight attendant was in on it. (Something that I had guessed previously). The show has to get back on now! By the way, I am enjoying DAYBREAK also. I also find it gripping to see the plot twists, although I do have one problem(other than the possibility of the show being cancelled before the answers are revealed). I am the type who likes to read the various message boards to look for clues in things and ABC has not put one up for DAYBREAK. First of all, that is a very bad sign to me about the long term viability of the program, and two, I like to speculate about the plot along with other fans. It is part of the fun for me. Television has changed now, it is much more interactive and ABC is not giving a forum to do that. I hope things change but I am not hopeful. One more by the way, I think Kate is in it with the Others on LOST.
Until Later,
Jonathan
I won’t start on LOST being gone last night, I still haven’t watched DAYBREAK yet either, since we tivoed it. My wife and I tivo so many things that we have approximately 220 hours on various tivos around the house that we haven’t gotten to yet. You see, I have shows that are for me and we have some that are “us” shows. She doesn’t really have her shows since at night she is so tired that she falls asleep while watching. That is why we are only getting to the season premiers right now when shows are halfway through their season. It is tough to avoid hearing details from other people when they discuss the latest plot twists in shows. I hear about them since I follow everything in Tv on various television websites and I try to keep it from her but it doesn’t always work. Getting back to last night, didn’t see it yet (of course) but I was glad King of Queens was finally back. I don’t understand how this show has been continually treated poorly by CBS. I may be alone on this, but I find it to be consistently one of the funniest shows on television. I don’t just mean a few chuckles, I mean out loud laughter. I was disappointed to see that they’re only putting on 13 episodes now for this season and that this season is probably the last. I know that shows don’t go on forever but I am truly upset with this one. It is one of my comfort shows that I know I will be entertained with. I hoped that maybe there would be some sort of reprieve and the show would get another season but seeing as how they are burning off two episodes a night per week with little fanfare, it doesn’t look good.
Later,
Jonathan
The chips are falling fast. Schmidt signed with the Dodgers and still no word on the Mets. I have been reading some other posts and am glad to see some others agreeing with me(at least from what I’ve read) The Mets like to do things on the cheap. I don’t care what you did last year, sign somebody good to pitch. They just never get that good pitcher and it is frustrating. If this Harden thing doesn’t pan out I am going to be extremely frustrated once again with my Mets. We shall see.
Jonathan
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