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Old TV Series

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When I’m up late at night I tend to have the TV on to keep me company as I work on the computer or read forums.

Lately I’ve discovered that some old comedy series from the late 80’s are on in the wee hours. At the moment I’m watching “Mad About You”. Do you remember that show? Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt. In a little while Grace under fire and Married with children will come on.

Speaking of Married with Children … We’ve started watching the HBO show John from Cincinnati on Saturdays. Now that’s a strange show! Ed O’Neill who played Al Bundy on married with Children plays a fairly eccentric but serious character on John from Cincinnati. It’s interesting to be watching his Al Bundy character and then see his very different style of acting on the new show.

Do you watch any of these shows?





The TV’s on but there’s nothing to watch

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I’m so bored this week. Yes I’ve been busy getting my sites back on line and do some behind the scenes work on my websites … but you can only do so much of that kind of stuff.

I don’t watch a lot of TV shows, but when I do feel like watching TV I like to watch something enjoyable. Not reruns!

I’m so tired of reruns. Everything on TV this weeks seems to be shows I’ve seen recently. If they must show reruns why don’t they put on ones that are a little older so that you don’t remember every detail so well? At least for the shows that have a few seasons of programing anyway.

Anyone else as bored as I am this week?

That old TV show – Due South

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I was watching an old TV show yesterday morning called Due South. It’s that TV show that was on 10 or 15 years ago about a Canadian Mountie working with a Chicago detective. Do you remember it?

I never watch the show when it was on, but it comes on a channel that I watch late at night and sometimes early in the morning so I’ve found myself watching it lately.

One of the strange things that I noticed in one of the scenes on the episode that I watched yesterday was that they had a Money Mart in the background. I thought Money Marts were only in Canada? Money Marts are the same thing as payday loan shops.

Was Due South filmed in Canada? I know a lot of shows are filmed in Canada but for some reason I always thought that one was filmed in the US. If I’m right about the Money Marts though, then it was filmed here in Canada.

Anyone know?

Thinking of furnishings for our basement recreation room

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Chris and I are always talking about our home renovation projects. Yeah we’re not doing the projects so much as talking about them!

We talk about what we want to do, how we want to accomplish the reno and what we’ll do with whatever room when it’s done. I’m a full participant in our renovations – don’t be thinking Chris is a handyman … it’s me that does the planning and a good portion of the actual reno! Considering I’m sick that’s the main reason we’ve stalled on our renovations. Chris could start up on his own … but no …

Anyway. One of the big plans we have for the basement when it’s done is to make a den/ rec room out of the space. We’re going to get another HDTV for the basement and we both think it’d be cool to get home theater seating to complete the look and feel of the room.

We’ll have a regular movie night with our friends and or family. I can’t wait!

Do you have a room set up with an HDTV and home theater seating?

Stephen King on The Hour and surnames in China

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I was just watching The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC. George used to be a Much Music V-Jay, then last year he hosted a US game show or talk show (The One?) that I think failed miserably, but his show “The Hour” is actually pretty cool.

He babbles away about great topics and ends up interviewing some pretty interesting people. I’ve just watched him interview Mia Farrow and now in a minute or two he’s going to be talking with Stephen King.

Just before his Stephen King interview begins he started talking about how common certain names are in the US. Smith of course is the most common name and King is the 30th most common surname. Did you know that in China with it’s population of about a billion people that there are only 100 surnames? There’s something like 97 million Wangs, and 98 million Lee’s and so on!

Hmmm 97 million Wangs. Why doesn’t that line sound quite right? LOL

Can you imagine trying to find someone in a phone book there? George said the Chinese goverment is finally going to allow people to combine last names so their kids could end up with the surname of the mother or father or perhaps a hyphenated surname. Hopefully this will make a few new surnames come into play. They certainly need some!

Now I’m going to watch one of my favorite authors … excuse me for a moment while I hang on to his every word.

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