I'm awake. Waiting up. For K-Bug and her new extended curfew. So tired. Must do the mom thing. CJ is up too, not sure why, but no inclined to send him to bed either.

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The Science channel and Discovery Times are my true loves. Oh, I've a weakness for History International. Maybe the occasional fling with the National Geographic channel.

My Comcast has their channels set up so that 271-276 are Discovery Times, Science, Nat'l Geographic, Military, Biography, and History International. Those channels and SciFi are why I have digital cable.

I wonder if "Hot Rocks" is showing again any time soon...

I just saw an episode earlier this week--Wednesday, maybe? I'm thinking they might be showing one ep a week.

3 out of 4 classes graded!! Can I get a whoop? I am a grading machine today, but I don't think I have it in me to do the last class.

Woot!! Did you get your book read, too?

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My Comcast has their channels set up so that 271-276 are Discovery Times, Science, Nat'l Geographic, Military, Biography, and History International. Those channels and SciFi are why I have digital cable.

Add the Speed Channel and this is me.

Except I rarely watch Military. So maybe a swap instead. Speed for Military and, yep, I'm happy.

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Woot!! Did you get your book read, too?

I got one of them read. Started Bless Me, Ultima, but barely. Still need to read that one. I'm not teaching it, but I need to at least have read it.

I gave up on doing any more work tonight and am having a vanilla vodka/diet coke. It is Yum.

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I like watching military history shows like the one on WWI, and the occasional episode on famous battles like Waterloo. Even the episode on early guns (like, 16th-18th century guns) is fascinating to me, because the weapon technology dictates military tactics, and explains exactly why (to quote Bill Cosby) "[the British] have to wear red and march in a straight line."

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I like some of the shows I catch on it but American History is just kinda not my thing. Which horrifies and embarrasses me, but it's true. I'd rather just get the Cliffs Notes on that and read the novels about the solar system and Ancient Greece and how ecosystems intertwine.

This is a problem for me when playing Trivial Pursuit.

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Pair up with me--I'll cover all the history stuff, including American!!

I've got my history books (about 10 shelf feet, which isn't much but I've been purging) organized in lots of subcategories, but my war books are chronological: American Revolution, Civil War, WWI, WWII (don't have any books solely on Vietnam or later wars, but Tuchman's March of Folly does cover the Americans in Vietnam in the last part of the book).

I'm currently giggling because I found an I, Claudius drinking game!!

For each "quaff count" below, quaff the wine like the characters do at their banquets -- a decent swig. No dainty little sips like you're afraid your wine might be poisoned or something.

1 quaff for:

Banishments in General
Executions in General
Suicide in General
Adultery in General
Orgies

2 quaffs for:

Murders & Assassinations in General
Poisonings in Particular
Incest
Omens and Sibyls

3 quaffs for:

Assassinations/Poisoning of Emperors (w/accompanying appropriate food if poisoned-- see below)
Banishment of Julia
Starvation of Livilla
Livia Becoming a Goddess
The Winner of Messalina and Sylla's Contest

Many quaffs (drain that goblet!) for:

That --uh-- thing Caligula does at the end of Episode 9 "Zeus, By Jove" (we don't want to give it away if you've never seen the series before.)
"Not my head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Eat a Fig for: Poisoning by Fig

Eat a Mushroom for: Poisoning by Mushroom

Optional:

Hum "Let's Do the Time Warp Again" at the first appearance on screen of Livilla and of Nero (Agrippinilla's son -- don't be thrown off by the many other characters who have Nero tacked onto their name somewhere) You deserve ten gold stars for knowing why.
Yell "Make it so" at Sejanus at some point.
Brandish Boiled Asparagus for: You'll know.

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Pair up with me--I'll cover all the history stuff, including American!!

Excellent. You answer yellow. I can cover green (Sci and Nature), brown (Arts and Lit) and most blue (Geo). Entertainment is kinda a crap shoot for me. Am I missing any pie pieces?

My brother and I used to be a great team cause our knowledge interlocked. But now we don't talk really, much less play board games.

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ChiKat, I've taught Bless Me, Ultima many times if you need anything for it.

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Isn't orange sports, or is that entertainment?

I think I'm pulling an all-nighter so I can go for an early-morning swim at 6:00 am, and then come home to go to bed.

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