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Oct. 17th, 2006 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
listersgirlMy cable disappeared for good at some point last night. I only discovered it when I went to watch Entourage at 10, and discovered that CityTV was all static, unlike Global and CBC, which I had been watching earlier. And it took me a few minutes to remember that I'd actually asked for this, since that was in July.
So, with the cable line still in, I have perfectly clear TVO, Global, OMNI, CBC, and Sun. Everything else is a whiteout. Not what I was expecting. I kind of thought it'd be fuzzy CBC, Global, CTV and City. Maybe with the cable out?
The round-up of what is still watchable from all the TV I've gotten myself sucked into:
Doctor Who, CBC, yes
Prison Break, Global, yes
Heroes, Global, yes
Entourage, City, no (but not a big loss because it's on DVD already)
Rick Mercer, CBC, yes
Intelligence, CBC, yes (and let me just take a moment to say how much I'm loving this -- I read a review that said it was for people who love The Wire and MI-5, which, HI. It's set in Vancouver, about a guy who runs an enormous drug operation and the police department who is trying to stop him. But he becomes sort of an informant for them instead, because the director is highly ambitious and is using him to get herself into a position of power in CSIS. It's all very dark and low-key and about the power of knowledge.)
America's Next Top Model, City, no (SADNESS)
Lost, CTV, no (which would be EVIL, except that I've been watching it with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sarcasma and sanity_clause every week anyway, so I'm good as long as they keep letting me in the house)
Ugly Betty, City, no (it's fun, but I'll live)
CSI, CTV, no (wow - I've been watching this since the beginning. No more Warrick and Greg!)
The Hour, CBC, yes
And the most evil of all: Studio 60, CTV, NO. My Sorkin! Gone forever!
I'll definitely have to see what happens when I unplug the cable.
1. I am getting SO MUCH e-mail that's for other people with my name. It's getting a little ridiculous. Receipts, course handbooks, party invitations. And they're not even all for the *same* person with my name.
2. On Thanksgiving Sunday I got a bad sunburn from being outside for most of the day in sandals and a tank-top (so warm!). Later that week it snowed. OH TORONTO.
3. Heroes really has the best show ending moments of anything ever. Other shows should pay attention.
4. I am finding the internet stressful and depressing. Not LJ, but other blogs that I read and other news feeds that I follow. This is because everyone seems to either a) hate the organization I work for, b) think the organization I work for sucks mightily, c) think the organization I work for is completely irrelevant, or d) predict that the organization I work for is going to disappear completely. I am full of angst! And there's nothing I can do about it, because I am not in a position to decide policy of any type. So I am trying to avoid reading things.
5. My mom's operation went just fine. She had Frankenstein stitches around her eyes for a week (just a little too early for Hallowe'en), and now she can open her eyes all the way. She's very excited.
Those of you who live far away from your parents - do you find that you get information in an oddly out-of-proportion way? In the weekly phone calls with the parents, I get lots of detail about what plays and operas they've seen, who came into the store, who said hi, what's being made for dinner, but major things often get left out or brought up really casually. And I don't think it's deliberate - in fact, I think I do the same thing. I guess we all just forget that we haven't mentioned things before. It's odd.
So, with the cable line still in, I have perfectly clear TVO, Global, OMNI, CBC, and Sun. Everything else is a whiteout. Not what I was expecting. I kind of thought it'd be fuzzy CBC, Global, CTV and City. Maybe with the cable out?
The round-up of what is still watchable from all the TV I've gotten myself sucked into:
Doctor Who, CBC, yes
Prison Break, Global, yes
Heroes, Global, yes
Entourage, City, no (but not a big loss because it's on DVD already)
Rick Mercer, CBC, yes
Intelligence, CBC, yes (and let me just take a moment to say how much I'm loving this -- I read a review that said it was for people who love The Wire and MI-5, which, HI. It's set in Vancouver, about a guy who runs an enormous drug operation and the police department who is trying to stop him. But he becomes sort of an informant for them instead, because the director is highly ambitious and is using him to get herself into a position of power in CSIS. It's all very dark and low-key and about the power of knowledge.)
America's Next Top Model, City, no (SADNESS)
Lost, CTV, no (which would be EVIL, except that I've been watching it with
sarcasma and sanity_clause every week anyway, so I'm good as long as they keep letting me in the house)Ugly Betty, City, no (it's fun, but I'll live)
CSI, CTV, no (wow - I've been watching this since the beginning. No more Warrick and Greg!)
The Hour, CBC, yes
And the most evil of all: Studio 60, CTV, NO. My Sorkin! Gone forever!
I'll definitely have to see what happens when I unplug the cable.
1. I am getting SO MUCH e-mail that's for other people with my name. It's getting a little ridiculous. Receipts, course handbooks, party invitations. And they're not even all for the *same* person with my name.
2. On Thanksgiving Sunday I got a bad sunburn from being outside for most of the day in sandals and a tank-top (so warm!). Later that week it snowed. OH TORONTO.
3. Heroes really has the best show ending moments of anything ever. Other shows should pay attention.
4. I am finding the internet stressful and depressing. Not LJ, but other blogs that I read and other news feeds that I follow. This is because everyone seems to either a) hate the organization I work for, b) think the organization I work for sucks mightily, c) think the organization I work for is completely irrelevant, or d) predict that the organization I work for is going to disappear completely. I am full of angst! And there's nothing I can do about it, because I am not in a position to decide policy of any type. So I am trying to avoid reading things.
5. My mom's operation went just fine. She had Frankenstein stitches around her eyes for a week (just a little too early for Hallowe'en), and now she can open her eyes all the way. She's very excited.
Those of you who live far away from your parents - do you find that you get information in an oddly out-of-proportion way? In the weekly phone calls with the parents, I get lots of detail about what plays and operas they've seen, who came into the store, who said hi, what's being made for dinner, but major things often get left out or brought up really casually. And I don't think it's deliberate - in fact, I think I do the same thing. I guess we all just forget that we haven't mentioned things before. It's odd.
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Date: 2006-10-17 03:58 pm (UTC)I'm going to check what happens without the cable line in when I get home, and then I'll probably go for the antenna.
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Date: 2006-10-17 04:03 pm (UTC)Seriously, lunch, tomorrow? :) Get you set up in time for ANTM?
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Date: 2006-10-17 04:06 pm (UTC)Let me check what's up tonight when I get home.
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Date: 2006-10-17 04:10 pm (UTC)Take the offer of company while it's good, for reals.
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Date: 2006-10-17 04:25 pm (UTC)But yes, experiments tonight, electronics tomorrow. That's almost the best kind of 24-hour plan.
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Date: 2006-10-17 04:46 pm (UTC)