Posts Tagged ‘television’

• 24: I’m so lost

  Date: 2010.05.25 | Category: I'm just saying, television | Response: 5

  I spent the day being sick. My sinuses are all congested and my food tastes funny. But of course, the day I’m sick is the day the cleaners come and it just felt too weird to be laying on the couch (dying) so I went up to Panera to have a cup of coffee and read my book.

  I came back around 10 am and they were gone so I took up camp on my couch for the rest of the day. I watched The Bachelorette and let me tell you, those guys are all idiots. Except for Frank, I kinda like Frank. I wasn’t too impressed with Ali either, but then again she was given a few zingers that I probably wouldn’t have even known how to respond to.

  Then I watched some of the 24 finale. I’m so lost. It seems that I’ve been falling asleep over the last five or six weeks of 24 and my plan was that I’d figure it out next week. Yeah, that plan is not working out too well. If it weren’t for the fact that it’s the very last episode ever I’d probably just delete it from my DVR and call it wrap. But, I’ve still got 40 minutes left to suffer through.

  I read my book, The Forgotten Garden, watched a little of the French Open (that’s tennis folks, one of the grand slams), took a nap, read a little more, took another nap, and then I finally sat up and plowed through the last 200 pages of the book. It was a really good story. I’d absolutely recommend it.

  Do you know what would make being sick on the couch so much better? An iPad. I’m just saying.

• I <3 AT&T U-Verse

  Date: 2010.03.21 | Category: I'm just saying, television | Response: 4

  That’s right, I heart AT&T U-Verse. It took a few days, and a lot of phone calls, but I can finally say that I love it and that I’m happy that I switched from Time Warner Cable.

  The problem was that for some reason I was set up on a 1 HD / 3 SD profile (that’s 1 high definition and 3 standard definition profile). I don’t know why. I’m not sure what the reason was. But you can bet that I raised a lot of hell until the situation was fixed. Go on, shake your head, you know I made AT&T’s life miserable until my profile was 2 HD/ 2 SD.

  I called on Monday while I was crying over Phoebe dying and my husband was all: IS THIS REALLY THAT IMPORTANT TO YOU? And I was all: RIGHT NOW IT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO ME. AT&T told me that I was too far from the main box in my neighborhood to get the 2 HD channels at once.

  I called on Tuesday and was told that by the time I got home from work the problem would be resolved, all I had to do was reboot the U-Verse box.

  I called on Wednesday and was told that if I downgraded my internet speed then maybe I’d be able to upgrade the high definition streaming. I have no idea if that worked or not because the AT&T agent never called me back on Wednesday morning like she said she was going to.

  I called on Thursday morning and the agent said that while he was sure I could get 2 HD streaming, he doubted that the reception would be good enough. This is when I got pissed off and the next thing I knew there was a repair technician calling to see if I could meet her at my house so she could check all of my wiring and signal strength. Oh yeah, I was home in 15 minutes flat to let her in. It turns out that my wiring was excellent and my signal strength was impressive (of course it was). She called her manager and then it was a done deal. I would have 2 HD within hours or I could call the repair tech’s mobile phone and she’d come over and take care of it.

  And someone in the billing department gave me a $50 credit on next month’s bill.

  If I couldn’t have gotten 2 HD channels I would have definitely gone back to Time Warner Cable — sure I could watch TV in standard definition, but on an HD TV why would I want to?

• Starbuck

  Date: 2010.01.31 | Category: television | Response: 0

  ***Spoiler Alert*** don’t read if you don’t want to know about BSG.

  I’m almost done with the Battlestar Galactica series. I’m on disk 2 of season 4.5. Will I finish this weekend? Perhaps. My husband is sick, so we aren’t doing much.

  If I were a cylon which one would I be? Maybe a 3. Deanna is pretty fiesty. She doesn’t put up with much. Then again my brother says he’d peg me for a 1. John? The guy from that time jumping show? He is pretty funny in a sarcastic sort of way. Maybe.

  Anyhow. I don’t know what the deal is with Starbuck yet. The 12 have been revealed, but why did she find herself on Earth? What’s up with that?

• I HEART BSG

  Date: 2010.01.04 | Category: Daily Life, movies | Response: 2

  This weekend was jam packed with so much! Where do I begin?

  The Detox. It went well actually. Friday night was probably the most difficult. My yoga book said that as the toxins were flushing out of my system I’d feel a lot of aches and pains, and did I ever! Especially in my shoulders. It was awful. But by morning I was fine.

  The new movies. We went to see two movies this weekend: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel, and Avatar. Alvin was cute, it worked, not as good as the first movie but the kid liked it. Avatar was amazing! We all loved it!

  The old movies. Through Netflix I watched: 1. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard: hilarious; 2. Dan In Real Life: totally enjoyable; 3. Back to the Future: Part 3: Zoe wants to know if we’ll have flying cars in five years.

  The BSG. Yes, BSG. As in Battlestar Galactica. That stupid TV series that I’ve avoided like the plague every Friday night. My husband kept saying that he thought I’d like it, and then my brother got the entire series on Blu-Ray, and then I had nothing to do for three days while I laid around and detoxed, so I watched season 1. And I loved it! What I want to know is this: WHEN WILL STARBUCK AND APOLLO KISS?? SHHhhhhh! Zip-it!!! Don’t actually tell me though. I’m starting season 2 tonight.

  It’s season 2 episode 1, right?

  And Boomer? Pg? I totally called that when she gagged after smelling the peanut butter.