Canaries

I've heard that in the old mining days, they used to take a bird with them (I think a canary) down into the mine. Then, if the bird died, they'd know that the air was bad and they needed to turn around or get out or something. I'm not a miner, but I'm pretty sure that's the basic idea.

So, since the fly situation started, there have been some dead flies, largely because I believe they're too stupid to do much. They are a very strange fly, and they just fly around really slowly and then die, I guess. Anyway, yesterday when I got home from work, ALL the flies were dead. Little fly bodies everywhere. No living flies.

Uhh....

Home of the Flies

There are flies in my apartment. A lot of flies. When I first saw them, it was like 11 of them on the front blinds. I don't ever leave the door open, and all of the windows have screens. Did someone leave the door open when they were showing the unit to people?

Whatever it is, it's gross and annoying. They are everywhere. I wish they weren't.

Veggies

Why are vegetables so expensive? I was at the store today buying some veggies, and they were so expensive!! I feel bad for people who truly can't afford to buy those things. It's much cheaper to eat boxed convenience food, but that food is so bad for you.

How will anyone ever eat healthier? It's so much quicker, cheaper, and easier to eat bad food...

Matt is My Hero...And Danny Thinks Moliere Was Italian

It's the week of upfronts, which is when all of the big networks announce their fall schedules. (Clearly, it's problematic that my schedule includes monitoring of this, but nonetheless, it is upfront week.)

So, today was NBC's day, and they revealed their new schedule...however, they didn't pick up one of my favorite shows for another year: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is officially canceled. They'll burn off the episodes that they have already done and then it'll be over.

Studio 60 was funny and smart, and I think that's why it got canceled. People didn't really know what to make of it: comedy, drama, who knows what. But I'm not sure that something has to be super definable to be good. It was witty, sharp, and just thoroughly enjoyable.

Why is there no network willing to put on smart shows? Why must we all watch shows like Deal or No Deal? Not only is it not a smart show, but I'm pretty sure that it is actually making people dumber.

From now on, I'm not watching anything on TV until it has been going a few years. Then I'll rent the DVDs. That way, I get to skip the commercials and the heartache. (Yes, I have TV heartache. See my recent post if there is any doubt.)

Re-evaluation

Is it bad that all of my best friends and funny moments are on my TV? I probably should get out more...I just love my TV. It entertains me and asks for nothing in return. That's probably a bad sign. I may need to re-evaluate my life.

I'll do it later though--I'm in the middle of a great show.

More Bacon Explanation

I thought I'd do a quick blog history for those who are joining later in the game.

Once, when whining to my mother about everything, I'm sure, I was complaining how my sister lived so far away and that it was bad because she lives on Eastern time zone, and the only good times for me to call her are at night, but it's too late for her, so when would I ever talk to her, etc. My mom suggested that I could call her from work on a break (which I do) and that we could still email, and that I should start a blog and that then we'd be able to keep up with each other's lives. (Incidentally, when I finally did get around to starting the blog, I'm pretty sure that my mother didn't remember it was her idea. I should have taken all the credit. She would never have known.)

So, for a long time, the idea was mulling around that I needed to start a blog. Last November, I went to see a Barenaked Ladies concert with my brother and his wife, who was pregnant at the time (maybe like 5 months? Trying to do the math in my head...maybe 6 months...) Anyway, the opening band was this WEIRD guy. Not only could we hardly understand a word he said, but we were also pretty sure that it wouldn't have mattered anyway. The good part about his set was actually this STRANGE little song where he played like a synthesizer and all of these different sounds and words, and he was totally grooving to it. It was quite unusual. But one of the things the synthesizer would say was the sound of a young kid saying "More Bacon Than the Pan Can Handle."

We thought it was hilarious. We had NO idea what it was supposed to mean (although on occasion I have come up with different meanings for it in my mind) but we just thought it was the funniest thing. So it became a joke that when JJ was born, those would be his first words.

Not too long after that was when I decided to start my blog, and I needed a name, and that one just stuck.

So that's what Jenn was referencing, LL. You're not old at all. It's not a song that anyone would know, I imagine, and it probably never would be. But it was funny. You would have laughed.

Unexplainable

My roommate moved out, so now I'm living alone (except for a few strange things she left behind...)

Anyway, yesterday I got home from church, cooked dinner (puff pancake), and bummed around the house for a while. Then I went out to ward prayer, and when I came back, my apartment smelled distinctly of fish. Um, I didn't make fish. I don't even have fish in the house, except for one thing in the freezer. And no one else could have made the fish because I am the only one who lives there.

How did that happen?

Still a bit fishy this morning...

Unreliable Friend

Sometimes, friends let you down. It's such a heartbreaker when you think you know someone and they turn out to be someone else altogether. I hate it when I rely so desperately on someone, and then at the critical moment, they flake out.

Case in point: my TiVo. I know, it doesn't seem like a TiVo is a friend, but for me, it is my friend. My best friend, probably. Pathetic? Maybe. But I don't care. We understand each other's needs (it needs to be plugged in, I need television to entertain me...), we respect each other, and we share many memorable experiences.

Tonight, in the middle of watching a show, my TiVo remote stopped working. I was trying to fast forward a commercial and it wouldn't do anything but bring up the time bar. Then, it wouldn't even do that. I tried taking the batteries out of the remote and putting them back in to see if that would help, but nothing. Then, without warning, the TiVo turned itself off. It turned back on and said that it was powering up. Then it said it was installing a service update, and then it rebooted itself again. Now, it says that it is preparing the service update, and that it may take up to an hour, possibly longer. Um, hello?!?!? What's up with that? There are PLENTY of times during a day when it would be okay for it to do this--right now is not one of them!

I was just a few minutes away from the end of a show. Now I have to wait until tomorrow to find out what happens.

I feel so betrayed.

Back to School

WHY?!?!?!? WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

School starts again today. I was reading through the content on my web class, and at one part, the teacher wrote "I hope you have a profitable learning experience this semester." Um...

I might have a bad attitude, but especially with the classes I'm taking this semester, I'm not really excited about learning any of it. I just want it to be over.

I'm not sure I've ever been counting down to the end of the semester on the first day before.