Disappointed...

Just finished watching Knight Rider... and I must say, I'm disappointed. Not quite as bad as Bionic Woman, but the premiere didn't leave me longing for more. Maybe (hopefully) it'll get better. I much preferred the original (then again, maybe it was as bad, and I just didn't realize it because I was young at the time). And, of course, KITT is supposed to be a Trans Am... it would have been a great opportunity for GM to get some more publicity of the forthcoming (possible) Camaro platform (assuming they also build a Firebird/Trans Am variant).

And even TiVo let me down this time - there was a sweepstakes on the Knight Rider show, where you have a chance to win a Mustang or one of several other Ford vehicles. I went to sign up for it, watching the show tonight, and the sweepstakes was only for the time that the show was on - I missed it! If anybody wants to offer me a new Mustang GT to go along with my 67, I'd gladly accept it. For example, the forthcoming 2008 Mustang Bullitt. Yeah, I could accept one of those from my readers... along with one of those Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 phones.

You know (actually, you probably don't, but will momentarily), there is this guy at work who is incredibly intelligent. He's the smartest guy I know, I think; even smarter than yours truly (and I still don't understand why that's a synonym for "I" or "me"). And his handwriting is horrible - I mean, barely legible at all. So, I have a theory: handwriting legibility must be inversely proportional to intelligence (mine's pretty lousy, but then again, maybe it's my own perception of intelligence...). No offense intended if you have lovely handwriting.

A note to anyone doing math: DO IT IN PENCIL! My daughter is always doing her math in pen, and I'm always getting very upset by it. People should always do math in pencil. If I were a math teacher, I'd mark any work done in pen wrong, zero credit. Math should be done in pencil. Good thing I'm not my daughter's math teacher...

A new pet peeve: the MySpace IM doesn't support "<ctrl>+<backspace>" to delete the previous word. That (<ctrl>+<backspace>) is one of my favorite keyboard shortcuts these days, especially since my typing's often not so good (plenty quick, but often the wrong word or words or letters). And I also frequently find that I end up adding an extra "e" to words, but I do that more often when writing in my print/cursive mix that I call handwriting. Don't know why, I just do, usually to words that end in a single consonant, if I recall correctly. Weird.

Enough of this post... it's really rambling now...

What's on?

When it comes to TV, I can't say that I watch a lot of it. What I do watch is usually not live, either - it's TiVoed. That being said, here are the things I watch on a regular basis:

• Survivor - started watching this back when Rupert was first on the show, when they dumped the "survivors" the day before they expected it. Rupert's stealing of the other team's sneakers was classic, one of the "great moments in Survivor" - in fact, Rupert is my all-time favorite survivor (he was also one of only two non-winners invited to the "Survivor All-Stars"). This season's survivor, despite the exceptionally physical challenges, isn't living up to the past few seasons, however.
• Chuck - this is an entertaining new show, if somewhat out-of-reality. Maybe that's what makes it entertaining. Parental discretion is advised, but it's usually not too bad.
• Heroes - last season (the first season) was much better, although it was not as "kid-friendly" as this season (we did not allow our younger children to watch last season's episodes; we are, with discretion, allowing them to watch it this season). This season's storyline isn't as good, and the "powers" are going beyond what I think they should have allowed into the story (my opinion, of course). That being said, it's still entertaining. Parental discretion definitely advised.
  

Things I watch sometimes:

• Deal or No Deal - this can be quite funny at times.
• Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader - again, quite amusing.
• Various re-run sitcoms (but not Friends; don't really care for it that much)
• Football - college - go Alabama!, NFL - go Redskins!, although I rarely get to see a whole game; secondary "favorites" are FSU (brother is an alumni) and the Atlanta Falcons (silly Michael Vick); the one time the Falcons made it to the superbowl I was stuck in the airport in Atlanta and managed to watch portions of the game on the airport TVs - that was a rough trip - over 12 hours to get from the Huntsville airport to the airport in Michigan or Ohio or wherever it was I was going, and it was still a two-hour drive from the airport the the hotel after arrival.
• Various PBS shows, like Nova and Stargazer (or sometimes Arthur or Fetch with Ruff Ruffman - mainly when the kids are watching those)
  

Shows I miss:

• Brother's Keeper
• Yes, Dear!

Shows my wife watches regularly that I occasionally watch with her:

• ER - this is probably her favorite - it's "save until I delete" on the season pass on our TiVo
  
• NCIS

Shows I don't care for:

• Bionic Woman - ok, this one's really stupid. Poor storyline, poorly written, poor acting. Watched the first episode, and the more I thought about it over the following week, the more I realized I had no desire to see the remainder of the season. A real let-down after all the build-up around the show.

So, there you go - a run-down of my TV watching habits. As mentioned in a previous post, we don't have cable (or satellite or DirecTV), so we're limited to the broadcast shows. However, our TiVo is confused about one of our local stations - channel 15 is listed as channel 14. Meaning it won't pick up the shows from channel 15 (thinks they're on 14, and "doesn't know" what's on 15). I've complained to TiVo several times about this, but they still haven't fixed it (according to them, in an e-mail, channel 15 is listed as channel 15; I think perhaps it has something to do w/ the HD version, since while most HD channels seem to be X.1 (e.g., channel 19's HD channel is 19.1), channel 15's HD channel is 14.1).

Of course, not watching TV so much allows more time for things like my "music career" and this infernal blogging. Bet you wish I watched more TV, eh?

So, what's on at your house?