Greetings,
We have lost internet access at our home so for now my Random Thoughts are on hold. Please try to carry on if you can.
Jon
Monday, October 5, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Blog Number 443
Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
We did manage to break into disk 2 of season 1 of The Muppet Show. Now I have seen tons of muppet show reruns but I am beginning to realize why season 1 was not part of the normal syndicated shows. While it is interesting to watch the beginning, there is not much to laugh about. The Kermit / Piggy relationship is still working out the kinks and characters like Gonzo are not prevalent enough while other reoccurring characters are overused. Then there are the guest hosts. While tonight's episode did have a guest that I actually had heard of, the most famous host from the first 6 episodes was Jim Nabors. Also, the hosts don't really do that much comedy. This episode had the song "So Happy Together" with Florence Henderson and 6 or so monsters. Nothing real funny, just an odd setting. Even the wise cracking old codgers don't have the sting they did in later seasons. I already have season 2 purchased so I hope the kids don't give up on it before we get there.
The wife and I watched the season 2 premier of The Mentalist which is one of our favorite TV shows. The have not tried to change the formula that made the first season great and all the characters are back without any big changes. I just hope the rest of our shows can continue on in this way.
We filled out our calendar for the month of October yesterday. We put in placeholders for our Date Night, Panera Saturday, and Family Night Out as is our custom however since it is getting colder I decided to to swap out the Ice Cream Social for something new. I am calling it Breakfast With Daddy / Lunch With Mommy. My plan is to take the daughter out for breakfast on some school day. We will just leave early to head to school and stop at a greasy spoon for a cheap breakfast. There is a restaurant called The Breakfast House here in town that advertises a $1.99 breakfast consisting of 2 eggs, sausage or bacon and a side of toast or biscuits and gravy. I figure we can get out pretty cheap. The son can have lunch with his mother at Taco Bell (which is the best gluten free restaurant in his opinion). The kids are looking forward to it and I am a little sad now that I planned it for the 4th week of the month as now we have to wait.
I am finishing up the latest John Grisham novel. My son was asking me what I liked about the book and in describing it I told him that I had read all his books. When we counted them up, there was something like 20 Grisham books so far. This impressed the son (who does not like to read books). He was not impressed that the same author had written 20 books but that I had read that many (total for my life!). I got this one from the library and it was on the Hot Picks shelf so I can only have it out for 2 weeks. I did not finish the last book that I started before it was due and I had 4 weeks for that one. I made it about 95% of the way through but could not bring myself to finish it. The first 2/3 of the book was rather good but then it was like the author ran out of ideas or could not figure out how to end it so she did something drastic out of left field. I plodded on but didn't even consider renewing the book for another 4 weeks to finish it. Oh well, as I said in an entry about 400 blogs ago, life is too short to finish a book just because you started it. I am keeping that mindset even now 400 blogs later.
Well I better head back to the bedroom and get at finishing the Grisham book since it is due in 2 days.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
We did manage to break into disk 2 of season 1 of The Muppet Show. Now I have seen tons of muppet show reruns but I am beginning to realize why season 1 was not part of the normal syndicated shows. While it is interesting to watch the beginning, there is not much to laugh about. The Kermit / Piggy relationship is still working out the kinks and characters like Gonzo are not prevalent enough while other reoccurring characters are overused. Then there are the guest hosts. While tonight's episode did have a guest that I actually had heard of, the most famous host from the first 6 episodes was Jim Nabors. Also, the hosts don't really do that much comedy. This episode had the song "So Happy Together" with Florence Henderson and 6 or so monsters. Nothing real funny, just an odd setting. Even the wise cracking old codgers don't have the sting they did in later seasons. I already have season 2 purchased so I hope the kids don't give up on it before we get there.
The wife and I watched the season 2 premier of The Mentalist which is one of our favorite TV shows. The have not tried to change the formula that made the first season great and all the characters are back without any big changes. I just hope the rest of our shows can continue on in this way.
We filled out our calendar for the month of October yesterday. We put in placeholders for our Date Night, Panera Saturday, and Family Night Out as is our custom however since it is getting colder I decided to to swap out the Ice Cream Social for something new. I am calling it Breakfast With Daddy / Lunch With Mommy. My plan is to take the daughter out for breakfast on some school day. We will just leave early to head to school and stop at a greasy spoon for a cheap breakfast. There is a restaurant called The Breakfast House here in town that advertises a $1.99 breakfast consisting of 2 eggs, sausage or bacon and a side of toast or biscuits and gravy. I figure we can get out pretty cheap. The son can have lunch with his mother at Taco Bell (which is the best gluten free restaurant in his opinion). The kids are looking forward to it and I am a little sad now that I planned it for the 4th week of the month as now we have to wait.
I am finishing up the latest John Grisham novel. My son was asking me what I liked about the book and in describing it I told him that I had read all his books. When we counted them up, there was something like 20 Grisham books so far. This impressed the son (who does not like to read books). He was not impressed that the same author had written 20 books but that I had read that many (total for my life!). I got this one from the library and it was on the Hot Picks shelf so I can only have it out for 2 weeks. I did not finish the last book that I started before it was due and I had 4 weeks for that one. I made it about 95% of the way through but could not bring myself to finish it. The first 2/3 of the book was rather good but then it was like the author ran out of ideas or could not figure out how to end it so she did something drastic out of left field. I plodded on but didn't even consider renewing the book for another 4 weeks to finish it. Oh well, as I said in an entry about 400 blogs ago, life is too short to finish a book just because you started it. I am keeping that mindset even now 400 blogs later.
Well I better head back to the bedroom and get at finishing the Grisham book since it is due in 2 days.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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