TDTVS

Forsaking All Others

I’m not sure exactly where the phrase “forsaking all others” is from, might have been part of my wedding vows or the oath I took when I joined the U.S. Navy or maybe it is from my college fraternity pledge, but I have been hearing it in my head a lot recently.

When I came home from work on Friday I had with me the borrowed DVD of the movie Lucky # Slevin to watch (thanks Mark.) Also on Friday, in the mail there was a red envelope with Notes on a Scandal inside. Here it is Sunday night and neither movie has found its way into the DVD player.

Not because we weren’t in front of the TV any this weekend, we were, for a good bit of it, but because we watching more of Season 3 of TDTVS.

Ben: Bring me the man from Tallahassee.
Man leaves, and Locke and Alex exit the closet.
Locke: Is that some kind of code.
Ben: No Locke, we don’t have a code for ‘There’s a man in the closet with a gun to my daughter’s head.’ Although there clearly should be.

P.S. I do know that it came from my wedding vows…

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Lost in Hitchcock Woods

Polar Bear PitAs a recent graduate of the John Locke School of Survival I feel right at home in the woods. But when Donna and I somehow got off our mapped trail this afternoon and stumbled on this trail, I have to admit that I became a little uneasy.

For the first time in about three weeks we finally escaped the high gravity couch and took a walk in the woods. The last time we took a hike, on that same day, we watched a couple of episodes of Season 1, Disc 5 of TDTVS. Today, along with the walk, we also watched a couple episodes of Season 3, Disc 2 of TDTVS.

Papa got a new pair of shoes!

We finished the evening off with dinner out with friends. We went to our least favorite Italian restaurant, Roma Pizza. We got the polar opposite of last visit’s service, if anything our waiter was too attentive. We decided to get something besides pizza this visit, I had spaghetti with sausage and Donna had the veal parmigiana. the food was good, but not great, we’ll be sticking to the pizza from now on.

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4 8 15 16 23 42 Part III

Super Bowl 4: Kansas City Chiefs 23 – Minnesota Vikings 7
Super Bowl 8: Miami Dolphins 24 – Minnesota Vikings 7
Super Bowl 15: Oakland Raiders 27 – Philadelphia Eagles 10
Super Bowl 16: San Francisco 49ers 26 – Cincinnati Bengals 21
Super Bowl 23: San Francisco 49ers 20 – Cincinnati Bengals 16
Super Bowl 42: New York Giants 17 – New England Patriots 14

Oh, and I bought the shirt.

Washed the car this afternoon and I’m embarrassed to say that with the temperature in the low seventies, when I was done, I just drove it back in to the garage.

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Now I’ve Gone & Done It

Because I’ve pretty much stopped watching network television all together I was blissfully ignorant of the phenomenon. When the first season came out on DVD and after hearing people at work talk a bit about it, we opted to give it try. Dumped disc one in the Netflix queue. Oh. Man.

I resisted trying to join Season two in mid stride. Donna attempted to watch S2E12, but couldn’t pull it off because of the commercials. We bided our time. Seven months later Season 2 DVDs arrived and we spent a weekend gorging ourselves, watching it all.

When Season 3 hit the airwaves we just ignored it, vowing to only watch the show on DVD. When they did arrive in stores, we went to the local video store, rented and then watched the whole season in one fell swoop, two days, a Friday and Saturday.

I think that is when the banana peel slipped out from under us. We bought Season 1 on DVD to rewatch. When we finished that, we bought Season 2 and watched it again. Season 3 is in the mail to us right now. I’ve created a separate post category for it. There is now even a link category in the sidebar.

But tonight I did something I vowed not to do, I watched it as it was broadcast on ABC. I wonder if there is a support group at Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute for people like me?

The only thing I have going for me right now is I still haven’t bought a shirt.

But my resolve is weakening…

That Damn TeleVision Show

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This Is Awful…

…trying to watch Lost on regular TV.

ABC is showing the third season ender right now, I guess in an effort to get everyone excited for tomorrow’s Episode 1 of Season 4. The commercial blocks are annoying as all get out and to make matters worse they are crawling extra information at the bottom of the screen to explain what is going on to newbies.

To further indoctrinate newcomers, ABC will breakdown the whole first 3 seasons in a clip show that will be shown at 8 PM, just in front of the 9 PM premiere of season four.

Like before, I got tired of failure on eBay bidding for Season 3, so last night I broke down and bought it new. Found it on Buy.com for $28.98 ($38.98 minus $10 for first time Google Checkout buyers.)

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What Did One Snowman Say To The Other?

“Smells like carrots.”

Finished up Season Two of TDTVS this morning. After watching Season 3 just a month ago, it is amazing how much we have forgotten. Is Mr. Eko dead? I don’t remember him in Season 3. I know Locke is alive because I remember him. How did Desmond come back? I guess I should have paid attention. Or maybe I’ll just go here and read about them…or maybe go here and watch them.

In spite of the afternoon being sunny and in the upper 60’s we opted for the comfort of the couch once again. We watched Season 1 Disc 2 of Boston Legal which came from Netflix on Saturday. If it weren’t for the US Figure Skating Nationals on NBC, which Donna is watching, we might have watched the original 1959 3:10 To Yuma which also came in a red envelope on Saturday.

We did get the top down for the trip to Hardee’s and the weekly grocery trip between TV DVDs. At the store I was looking for something different for my morning snack. Last week was fat free fig newtons, the week before was ginger snaps. When I spotted something called Dipping Delights I was intrigued. Cheesecake flavored, hmmmm. They are shown on the package being dipped in a glass of milk, probably why they got there name. I was sure they would taste OK dry, so I picked up the the bag and checked the nutritional info. 90 calories, 6% of your daily value of total fat, 8% of saturated, 0% trans & cholesterol (naturally) per serving. Not bad, until you look at what the serving size is, 1 cookie! I’m sure the other customers in the store thought we had lost our minds we laughed so loud.

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5 Down, 1 To Go

Watched Lost Season 2 pretty much all day, discs 3, 4 & 5 or about 8-1/2 hours worth. Saving number six for tomorrow though. We have decided that seeing as we watched all of Season 3 just a month ago, we probably won’t buy that set, right now. Plan is to wait until they are getting ready to release Season 4 on DVD and buy #3 then. So end of this year, early next year we will start over again and watch Seasons 1, 2, then 3 followed right up by 4. After that I think we’ll have to go out and buy a new couch, because we will have worn the covers off this one.

The polls have closed here in SC and everyone is saying that Obama is the big winner, but Donna and I already knew that around 6 o’clock this evening. That is when the phone stopped ringing with those automated campaign messages, today’s tally at the Bogardus household, Barack Obama 6, Hillary Clinton 3. There were 3 “undecideds”, i.e. no message left. We had planned to get out and vote, but were afraid The Others might kidnap us, so we stayed inside.

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