I've been watching the News, well not local News but those popular News/Weather channels on cable. I've decided they are getting on my last nerve.......
You sit in your favorite chair, turn on the one eyed monster, the News blips on and what happens?
Reporter 1” Welcome to tonight's local live weather report in down town Detroit. In just a few I will tell you about record snow”
BAM the screen flips
Reporter 2 “I'm about to show you what 20 inches of snow in Charleston can do as soon as we return”
BAM the screen flips
Anchor” Yes that's right, we have snow, snow and more snow to talk about soon as we return”
BAM the screen flips showing you highlights of weather stats and 3 seconds of flip shots of different weathers in different states. To keep you glued to your seat.
Commercial breaks, after you get sick of the volume being raised on those bad boys the show returns and give you these short MTV type reports with the shake-o-cam and flip and triple split the screen so you really don't know where to point your attention to. A good 3 minutes of that and BAM back to commercial/s, the volume pops up for those once again and a return of previews of the news to come.
I'm thinking they have sucked themselves in the all-day dramas such as shootings or the latest Lohan gossip or heaven forbid we don't hear about the rare occurrence of snow (shocker) up north. Maybe they have forgotten how to sit down and actually give a good in-depth report about a newsworthy subject. My favorite "Lets all be quiet and listen to the celebration" No, how about we get up and get out there and get a report? Maybe chat it up with the locals.
Are we really that much of an ADHD society that we need this much brain stimulation while wanting to get the latest weather or news report? That we need the dancing bears and screen scrolls and tri-split screens to keep our attention.
To add to this in this day and age of "new technologies" we can send a man to the moon but can't get a clear video or voice across the world?
Well I guess the one option is to flip the channels or just go back to the newspaper......
Wednesday, February 9
Sunday, February 6
Ah excitement about this weekend!
We have the Superbowl and then we have G who decided at four thirty this morning to start having chest pains. Nothing bad really, the doctors are thinking its her gall bladder. No more surgeries please!! In fact, they aren't going to do one until she recovers from this last one in spite of the infection she cant seem to rid of right now. Shes at home resting well.
I'm excited about the Superbowl not because of the teams in fact we really don't care about the teams. Julie and Luke and their bunch came in early Friday, not for the games but are helping in a wedding that's next weekend and wanting to spend a little time with my mom a bit.
I get to spend a little time with the monkeys, Kyle is showing off his new cast he received on his left arm this week. Julie said she saw him jumping on the chairs and told him to get off or a time out would be coming his way. He did jump off and right back on to fall on his arm. He has one of those cool colorful casts, we didn't have that kinds of casts when I was younger. If they did, I'm sure I would have broken more things to wear them. His is decorated with stickers from friends at his school. Camen insists that it is possibly the coolest in the world and wants one as well, I think she likes the stickers the most.
The twins are full blown football hounds running around in diapers and Jerseys. Screaming “Tuff down” and raising their arms in the air with a little dance. Luke taught them those moves for the game.
Lori wants to bring her latest victim....boyfriend to the house to watch the game. Shes such the queen right now and threatens all of us to be nice “or else”. I guess off with our heads. Shes doing great in school at the moment but started off with a rocky start in skipping. That was nixed after she was cold busted by my Pops, mom would have been bad but Pops caught her. I've never seen the house and yard and garage so clean in my whole life. I don't get spammed with stupid emails either...odd
Jacks is here as well, God I've missed him. I've been in need of some entertainment these last few weeks and hes the right one to fill it. He drove down here to see us, also he and Pops are going to knock heads this weekend hopefully in a good way. Jacks says its time to straighten matters up so that he can go on with stuff in his life peacefully. Whatever.........
Trace and Michelle, who is looking more lovely in her present condition are coming. Trace has cut down singing at the pub and spends most his time with her or at work at the garage. They bought a house and I plan on landscaping it for them as a baby present. Hey, what else could I do?
Last night we set out a barrel full of steaks to be grilled out and plan on making pizzas with chips and dip and bucket fulls of liquid libations. Luke, Jacks and I made tray fulls of jello shooters and going to boil some shrimp. All this is going down at my house, with countless numbers of friends I'm sure this will be an epic weekend and a start of great year.
I'm excited about the Superbowl not because of the teams in fact we really don't care about the teams. Julie and Luke and their bunch came in early Friday, not for the games but are helping in a wedding that's next weekend and wanting to spend a little time with my mom a bit.
I get to spend a little time with the monkeys, Kyle is showing off his new cast he received on his left arm this week. Julie said she saw him jumping on the chairs and told him to get off or a time out would be coming his way. He did jump off and right back on to fall on his arm. He has one of those cool colorful casts, we didn't have that kinds of casts when I was younger. If they did, I'm sure I would have broken more things to wear them. His is decorated with stickers from friends at his school. Camen insists that it is possibly the coolest in the world and wants one as well, I think she likes the stickers the most.
The twins are full blown football hounds running around in diapers and Jerseys. Screaming “Tuff down” and raising their arms in the air with a little dance. Luke taught them those moves for the game.
Lori wants to bring her latest victim....boyfriend to the house to watch the game. Shes such the queen right now and threatens all of us to be nice “or else”. I guess off with our heads. Shes doing great in school at the moment but started off with a rocky start in skipping. That was nixed after she was cold busted by my Pops, mom would have been bad but Pops caught her. I've never seen the house and yard and garage so clean in my whole life. I don't get spammed with stupid emails either...odd
Jacks is here as well, God I've missed him. I've been in need of some entertainment these last few weeks and hes the right one to fill it. He drove down here to see us, also he and Pops are going to knock heads this weekend hopefully in a good way. Jacks says its time to straighten matters up so that he can go on with stuff in his life peacefully. Whatever.........
Trace and Michelle, who is looking more lovely in her present condition are coming. Trace has cut down singing at the pub and spends most his time with her or at work at the garage. They bought a house and I plan on landscaping it for them as a baby present. Hey, what else could I do?
Last night we set out a barrel full of steaks to be grilled out and plan on making pizzas with chips and dip and bucket fulls of liquid libations. Luke, Jacks and I made tray fulls of jello shooters and going to boil some shrimp. All this is going down at my house, with countless numbers of friends I'm sure this will be an epic weekend and a start of great year.
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