The Big DumpTruck

As you've undoubtedly heard by now, there was some kind of massive (nationwide) outage that impacted NESN and ESPN2 and therefore people who got up to start their day with a cup of coffee and the season opener could not actually see it on television.

We were among those who had to resort to listening to AM radio inside the house. Not cool, DirecTV, not cool.

Granted, we were already up at 6am, but I'm betting there were a LOT of people who set the alarm just that much earlier.

At least we won it, 10 innings later (not an easy win, and not a pretty one, but a win nonetheless).

Labels: angry, Red_Sox, television

I did not realize I forgot to post my New Year's Eve story. I apologize for making you wait so long. The shame of it all!

But seriously, Mr. Dump and Junior and I stayed home. Step-Junior went out to dinner with some friends but was home by 10-ish. We stayed up to watch the ball drop, our only snack companion some cheese and crackers, and onion dip and chips. (I think I may have out-grown onion dip. Seriously. 4 or 5 chips and I was done).

The men-folk wanted to watch some true-crime thing on the History Channel, but that is not really festive, if you ask me. We ended up watching a DVD of Will Ferrell's "greatest" SNL bits. (I have a hard time believing some of the ones chosen were the best he did in 7 years with SNL, but I did not produce the dvd.)

At about 5 minutes of midnight we put the tv back on network television so we could watch the ball drop. We watch the countdown, 5. 4. 3. *click* We're suddenly watching something on I think the Discovery Channel.

So we missed moment the ball finished dropping. We rang in the New Year with completely puzzled looks on our faces. Now we have a Tivo, and it automatically records things that we ask it to, but there is some kind of bug with ours because it's SUPPOSED to ask us if we want to cancel the pending recording and stay on what we're watching, but it only does that I'd say 30% of the time now. Often it will just unceremoniously dump you into a new program. Picture the famous "Heidi Bowl" football game from 1968 - with 64 seconds left in the game, the network cut to a showing of the movie Heidi and anyone watching on television missed a 14 point comeback. Our Tivo often "Heidi"s us, often at very inappropriate times.

So we missed the actual moment it became 2008. So did it happen?

Labels: holidays, sports, television

Do you Hanker for a Hunka Cheese? Oh my gosh, look at the production values on this puppy! And yet, five billion years later, I still have this song memorized, and sometimes it leaks out of my ears. And stuff.

I found this via Huxtabled, which I found because C. Monks of Utter Wonder has a new blog called Dadsmacker, both on offsprung.com.

Wow, that's plenty of links for you for one day.

Labels: 80s, blogs, television

We're watching one of the two Scooby Doo live action movies - you know, the ones with the CGI Scooby and Freddie Prinze Jr. I just realized this is about the fifth time I've watched this one, the Spooky Island one. And you know what? For all the crap reviews it got when it came out, it's not a bad movie. It doesn't make we want to run screaming from the room, which is a big bonus.

Plus, you get the chance to hear Sarah Michelle Gellar say "Hey, I can look at myself naked" which is nice.

So this is how I'm spending my evening. Kind of disappointing, as Mr. Dump and I were supposed to be going out with my sister and her husband and another couple for dinner and a comedy show. You don't know how disappointed I am all all this snow tonight. And I don't think they're going to reschedule the comedy show. I'm all boo-boo faced here.

So what stupid movies have YOU watched many times? On purpose?

Labels: dog, television

I actually forced myself to sit through last night's American Idol. I am hoping that the reason everyone was so lame is because they were so completely overwhelmed by being in the final 24. I'm hoping.

I'm a huge huge fan of Chris Sligh, though. Enough that for the first time since Idol debuted, I actually called in and voted in an early round. He's great, his personality is great. I want to hang around with him. Don't you think he'd be fun to take bowling?

Tonight the girls are on. I pray they are better than the guys, because if they aren't, that's 4 hours of my life I'm not going to get back. Well, 2.5 because have a Tivo.

Labels: Idol, television