It rained here Friday night. We have been without cable since Saturday morning. I suspect these two things are related. At 10:00 Saturday, we were promised resumption of service in 2-4 hours. By 9:00 pm, we had been upgraded from an “interruption” to an “outage” and were promised service within 24 hours. [I thought I felt a disturbance in the Force. That must have been when the interruption became an outage. I’m glad the cable company explained it or we might not have noticed a difference between one type of non-service and another type of non-service.] It is now Sunday morning and no cable.
No cable Chez Nous means no DVR, no high-definition digital TV, and no internet. I am composing this post Sunday morning, but who knows when I’ll be able to post it. This means we could not watch the Wahoos beat the Turtle last night in football. The Washington Post headline was something like “Turtle loses by a whisker” but it could have said “Wahoos win by a whisker” (“Wahoos crush overrated inferior local favorite”; “Wahoos show Turtle that ability to read translates to victory on gridiron”; “Even sucky Wahoos overwhelm commuter-college Turtle”). You can see what we Wahoos are dealing with up here inside the Beltway.
Also, no cable means The Man had to watch baseball over the rabbit ears on the 13-inch TV I bought in law school for about $100. We are looking at the same with today’s Redskins and baseball games. The Man is not happy.
So what does a TV addict do when cable goes out? Why, she watches DVDs! Duh. Bunny and The Man are trying to catch up with Heroes Season 1 from Netflix before we watch the season 2 episodes we have stored on the DVR. We love this show. You have your bad-asses, your sad-sacks, your evil villains, your gangsters, your smarmy politicians, your consplosions, your sloppily predictable plot developments, and your implausibly stupid geneticists who are hanging out with the bad guy and are inexplicably unable to read all of his creepy clues to figure out that he’s the bad guy. Duh.
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Mohinder is the dumbest brilliant scientist to be shown in recent years on TV. If I were Indian, I'd be outraged that American TV chose to spotlight this character.
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