VM is showing in a timely fashion in Delray Beach. Pop on down and watch with me. We don't delay important stuff for stinky sports.

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At least that is copacetic with my desire to record Lost and Bones this week. Curses to whoever decreed that all three should be on at the same time!

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I'll be right there, Laura.

At least that is copacetic with my desire to record Lost and Bones this week. Curses to whoever decreed that all three should be on at the same time!

I decided to let Bones go. It's going to be one of those shows I catch if I'm around and nothing else is on. Scott and I will not be home on Wednesdays, and for the last month, TiVo has been having trouble changing our cable channels correctly. Just catching one show is going to be stressful, never mind three.

We use the serial cable hook up between TiVo and cable, not the IR thingie to change channels. I think our cable box is just going, because not all of the functions seem to work manually, either. Every time we've called cable though, they make us test this, that or the other thing, reboot the box, and then they say they're going to send a "stronger signal" but it can take up to an hour to work, and blah blah blah. I've never actually gotten to the point where I can say, "Yeah, did all that, now send out a guy with a new box."

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Ben was watching Sports Desk this morning before church. They simulated a play-off game between the Pats and the Steelers, and the Pats would have won, 15-7. He took it hard. Football losses don't sting me the way baseball losses do.

I was hoping that if the Bears couldn't win, the Pats would. Chicago is actually a football town too, although I do think the generation-to-generation fandom is more apparent among baseball fans.

I was thinking of you the other day. Ben and I were talking about baseball. This fall, he met one of Scott's great uncles, who played for the Cubbies yonks ago, and was a scout for a good long time, too. We never told him though about the cousin (not a first cousin) who played for the White Sox in the 90s.

That's so cool for Ben to have relatives like that.

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I've never met the cousin. I do know the great uncle, though. I don't know who was more enthralled, him or Benjamin, when they sat and talked baseball at my in-laws' anniversary party. At one point, I started to say something, and the uncle (very cutely) said, "Excuse me, but the boy and I are talking baseball."

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At one point, I started to say something, and the uncle (very cutely) said, "Excuse me, but the boy and I are talking baseball."

That's so perfect. I had a great uncle who would ignore any adult if a child wanted to or was talking with him. It's so great for the child to have that kind of attention from someone. And it's great for the the older adult too.

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The opening scene for this Wednesday's episode. Hmmmm.... I offer no comment, except to say that it feels like forever since we've had a new episode and I can't wait for it to come back.

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Yay!

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Oh my.

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hi ho.

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