My New Discovery

I got my keyboard working again. First thing after I put the boys on the bus this morning, Dolly and I came in the house, grabbed my keys and ran to K-mart. I got a new keyboard for $11 and change, came home and plugged it in without even fully unwrapping it, got a signal from it, plugged the new one out and the old one in and it worked. Go figure. It looked like there was something on the plug that I cleared away so maybe that was the problem from the beginning. I don’t know and I don’t care. I’ll keep the new one here, just in case, but if the old one still works by Thursday, I’m returning the new one for a refund. As long as I’ve got a keyboard, that’s all that matters, right? Right.

So, I did something exciting today. I know; I can’t believe it myself. I bet you can’t wait to find out what it was. Well, after I made sure my keyboard was working I was on the phone (no big surprise there) and watching the movie “Hair” (again, not a big surprise). After the movie was over I went on the imdb.com to research the movie and read the trivia, goofs, and some of the actors’ acting histories. I’m just curious and like to learn new things all the time, regardless of how meaningless they may be to me. Anyway, one of the actors had played a part in the drama “Third Watch” that I used to watch faithfully. That reminded me to look up a couple of the actors from that show to see if they were in anything new that I might be interested in since CBS cancelled my two favorite shows when they ended this past season.

Lo and behold, I found that Eddie Cibrian is now on “CSI: Miami” which I don’t really watch, and Jason Wiles is on a relatively new show called “Persons Unknown.” Since I’d never heard of it I decided to check out OnDemand to see if the TV show is being replayed there. It was but there were only four episodes listed. Turns out it was the pilot that started June 7 and each of the subsequent episodes up through last night. How cool is that; a brand new show that I can actually watch from the beginning? When I started watching the pilot I didn’t realize that the show was soap-opera-like, where the story continues every week. It’s about seven people who are abducted from their lives and held captive in a deserted hotel with cameras watching their every move. It was actually pretty interesting and I watched all four episodes today; AND I wrote it down on my calendar so I won’t forget to watch it next Monday night at 7:00CST (or is this CDT?); regardless, I’ll be watching it next week when it’s on. If the kids are bugging me I’ll be able to watch it again on OnDemand. BONUS!!

Life is just great, isn’t it? You think you have nothing at all to do: the house is cleaned, the laundry is, almost, caught up, the bills are paid, and you have no packing to do because you’re not moving. All you have to do is sit and stare at the TV all day long because the book you have to read takes some concentration and with Dolly constantly in and out of the house, there is no time to concentrate. So, TV it is. Nothing really exciting, just whatever decent movies I can find to view. Then, suddenly, out of the blue, WHAMMO!! A brand new TV show appears to take the place of the two old ones I can no longer watch. Just when I thought life was turning on me I get hit with this tremendous gift. I have to thank the Universe for this splendid turn of events.

This is not an everlasting gift, mind you; the show is only on once a week. It’s not like a new soap opera that will be on the same time every day with the same story lines being run for the next 40 or more years. I’ll have to settle for just seeing the show on Mondays, but, at least, I have something to look forward to each and every week. When I’m sitting on my ass tomorrow, staring at some movie I’ve already seen umpteen times, and beginning to get bored and frustrated, I’ll close my eyes and imagine how great life will be next Monday evening when “Persons Unknown” starts at 7:00. Aaaahhhh, the joy of it all. The excitement and anticipation just make me quiver; I can’t help it.

I’m sure you can all sense my sarcasm here, and, if you can’t, you need to go back and re-read from paragraph two of the post. I did find the show accidentally, and I did watch all four episodes, and I did find it interesting enough to continue watching it every week. Yes, all of that is true. The obvious sarcasm comes in when I speak of how excited I am and how the Universe is shining down on me again and all the rest of that bullshit. It’s a TV show, folks. I don’t really get that excited over television programs. I may have a favorite or two that I like to watch, and I may get annoyed with people who interrupt me while I’m watching a program, but the shows aren’t the end all, be all of existence.

I have to say that this is actually pretty sad. The boys are at summer school, Dolly is outside playing with friends, and I’m sitting in the house watching TV. Next week, when the boys finish school on July 9th, they’ll be outside playing too and I’ll still be doing the same thing. Part of last summer, and all of the summer before that, I had my next-door neighbor to talk to. Her two kids and my three all played together, as well as with the other kids in the neighborhood. She and I would sit on our stoops from morning until night, only coming in long enough to get our kids to eat. We’d sit and talk all day long. I don’t have that anymore because she moved – to North Carolina!! That was just recent, but how fucked up is that? She and her re-husband and kids moved into a house last summer and out of State a couple of weeks ago, just like they wanted; and I’m still stuck here with no friends, no life, and nothing to do but watch TV. I really am pathetic aren’t I?

Well, in all fairness, this is the first summer I’ve had in a long time where I don’t have anything to do. I just finished school last June; and I knew this summer was going to be boring, I just never imagined it would be this bad. I’m complaining again, aren’t I? I make no apologies so deal with it. If you choose not to deal with it, stop reading. I don’t have any grownups to talk to in person, not very often anyway. If I do happen to capture one, I sometimes have to force myself to stop talking when I see their eyes glaze over after a while. Otherwise I just have Ellen and Joe to talk to on the phone and Joe doesn’t even call me anymore, the fucker. Ellen and I talk all the time, but even we run out of things to say. We do have lives outside of the phone, ya know.

In any case, I just wanted to fill you all in on the super exciting day I had today with the discovery of the new TV show. You may like it too, just tune in next Monday on NBC according to your time zone. I know I’ll be watching, even if it is just to see Jason Wiles, the babe that he is. Yea, yea – laugh it up, go ahead. I’ve gotta have something to dream about since all of my realistic dreams keep getting shot out of the air. Maybe next week I’ll have a different dream; for now I’m sticking with Jason.

Until next time…peace to all.