TDTVS

TDTVS

That Damn TV Show Thursday we watched 2 0f the 4 episodes on disc 5. Friday night from 6 until 11:30 we watched the last 2 on #5 and all 4 episodes on disc #6. Last night we watched nearly every tidbit crammed onto disc 7.

Now that we have finished mainlining Season 1, what? They are about halfway through Season 2, should we jump in now and wait until summer to see the first 11 shows to catch up on the back story? Wait until summer and hope they run the repeats in original order? Or wait until September to rent the Season 2 DVDs and watch them forgoing Season 3 until it’s DVDs in September 2007 and so on? Or download the torrents and watch the earlier Season 2 episodes on the PC?

I can’t just join the show mid stream. We did the one season behind thing with the Sopranos, but that was easy because there was no temptation because we didn’t HBO. With Lost on ABC there will be that allure on Wednesday night to check how things are going on the island. I tried to use a couple of Bittorrent clients, but even with my high-speed connection it was going to take more than a day, then what if what you got wasn’t playable?

My vote is to wait. Donna will probably want to start watching episode 12 of season2 this Wednesday. Family crisis in the making. This may be more of a marriage stability test than doing a Time/Speed/Distance Rally in the Miata.

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4 8 15 16 23 42

4 8 15 16 23 42The Powerball Lottery is worth like a hundred eighty million bucks. I think I could quit my job with that kind of money.

Donna and I have our ticket, we bought a quick pick a couple weeks ago with 10 plays, so it is good until the 25th of this month. For the three draws we have been through since we bought the ticket, we have not had a single number match anywhere. Maybe tonight’s the night. If I stop posting here after tonight, check the Powerball site to see if the winning numbers were 1 39 40 42 47 17, that’ll explain it.

Once the jackpot climbs over a 120 million or so there is a guy at work that goes around and collects from a group of us so we can increase our odds slightly. It started out with about a half dozen folks playing, but the number has grown to nearly 30. After all, once you have played once, you can’t get back out, how would you feel if 25 of your co-workers walked in and told the boss to take his job and shove it while you had to stay behind because you wouldn’t cough up a measly buck? So I have about 30 more chances on those tickets for tonight.

Because of my current obscension with the TV show “Lost” I gave a brief thought to playing the numbers 4 8 15 16 23 42, but decided against it after what happens to Hurley when he won over a $150 million using them.

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Totally %@&#ing Lost

Totally %@&#ing LostToday was a total loss on the outdoor front. The rain started about sun up and didn’t quit until late afternoon. So the planned bike ride or hike in the woods will have to wait until next weekend.

I scanned some more images from the Big Box of Morrison Memories this morning. By show of hands, how many of you have a picture just like this from your childhood? There was no date on the photo, but from the looks of the kids, that’s Donna second from the bottom, she is thinking 1961 or 1962.

After going out for lunch and a stop at the supermarket to pick up a few of the missed items from yesterday’s major shopping expedition, we went somewhere we haven’t been for over 6 years, Blockbuster. They didn’t have what we wanted. So we doubled back and went into Movie Gallery, where we stopped going when Blockbuster came to town about 9 years ago. We grabbed the two DVD cases we wanted and went to the checkout. My name was still in their files, but that was it. Every other bit of info had to be re-entered. Once that was finished, ready to go, the clerk informed us that these were just the empty display cases, she needed the box with the DVD behind them. They weren’t on the shelf. Damn, they were already checked out. Disappointed we headed home for a dull afternoon inside the house. Part way home I made an unexpected right turn, I remembered the other Movie Gallery on the southside of town. We had never even been in this store before. At first we couldn’t even find what we wanted, but then there they were, behind the display cases were rent-able DVDs. Grinning from ear to ear, I handed the girl behind the counter my license and a credit card so I could open an account. We politely looked like we were listening to her spiel of the rules. We smiled attentive-like at her sales pitch for a rental gift card thing that could be had for $17.95 and was worth $24.95 before bolting for the door. We didn’t even feel the cool misty rain as we skipped back to the car.

Clutched in my hands were Season 1: Disc 3 & 4 of “Lost.”

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Lost 35,000 Miles From Home

On the way to dinner out tonight the Emperor notched over the the 35,000 mile mark. Donna and I meet with two other couples for a meeting of the Fine Dining Round-table, a Boolean Subset of the MMC. We reconvened after a long holiday break at the last place we met back in October, Rae’s Coastal Cafe.

While tonight’s meal was good it didn’t live up to either October’s fest or our memory of it. Donna’s twin lobster tails were large and tasty, but my Cajun flounder, off the “specials” menu, was not that great. I’m thinking that maybe Chef Papou must have had the night off. The only thing that saved it was I spread some of the hot sauce that came with John’s Jerk Chicken Meal.

About 12:30 this afternoon the postal delivery person filled our mailbox with a bunch of charitable come ons and Season 1: Disc 2 of “Lost.” We spent the next 3-1/2 hours of a beautiful sunny warm January afternoon inside on the couch riveted by the escapades of 46 individuals stranded on a uncharted Pacific isle.

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Now I’m Lost

Totally lost! One of my wife’s co-workers talked her into wanting to see “Lost.” I heard the buzz about the show last year, but I’m not into TV much anymore, so I never watched it. I added Season 1: Disc 1 to the Netflix queue and it arrived today.

So instead of watching Rachel Ray cook on “30 Minute Meals” as usual with supper, we watched part one of the pilot episode. A couple of leaps of faith were required right in the begining, besides the whole plunge from 40,000 feet and living part, but it wasn’t too bad. So we watched part two, then the next episode and the next. Before you know it we were through the whole DVD. Helps that each episode is only 40 minutes long without the commercials. So now if you look at my rental queue to the right, you will see the rest of the “Lost” discs in a row.

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