Television

Is it sad that our television dictates which shows we get into. No, seriously. Make sure that you're sitting down before you read this next part. See, we don't have cable. Nope. Nothing. No digital viewing. No Tivo. No digital recording device. Nothing high DEF in this house. No dish (although there is one on our roof. Not hooked up). No surround sound (although it's wired, just not in use). No cable box. How do we do it? Rabbit ears, baby. Pure old school. No tin foil involved, although one side of the rabbit ears broke of when my dad shut the door on it. . . but that is just one of the hazards of having my dad come to visit (ask anyone). I think we were the last ones on the block to get a DVD player too for that matter.

So how does our TV dictate our viewing? When we lived in CA, we had NBC crystal clear. We had other stuff at various levels of clarity depending on the night. So, we really got into Law and Order. The original. SVU. Not Criminal Intent because we think that main guy is way too know-it-all and his female partner is just worthless to the team. I really don't remember what else we watched, but it was for the most part NBC. Maybe ER for a while. Now we're in a different time zone with different stations coming in. Of course we get all the upper stuff great, PBS, a few spanish channels, Ion, the WB, etc. That's good for late night reruns of Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Seinfeld, spanish soccer games, you know what I mean. But NBC is probably our worst channel. Unusally it comes in black and white with a little bit of snow. Fox comes in color, but not real clear regardless of antennae placement. But CBS and ABC are good to go. That means we're all over all the CSI's. CSI original. CSI miami (we like to analyze why Horatio rarely looks directly at people and always has his head tilted). CSI New York (mediocre). Grays Anatomy (until everyone everyone was sleeping with everyone). Numbers. Criminal Intent. The Unit. We even got into Lost this past year. But we won't give o House or 24 or anything like a chance that because Fox is too difficult to watch for too long. We even will look at the TV guide and instantly rule out anything on Fox or NBC.

It hasn't been too bad since NBC has kind of gone down hill on the shows we want anyways. They haven't had as much sports Chad wants to watch either. Sorry, we're not NASCAR fans. BUT I was very sad to realize that the summer Olympics are going to be on NBC. Don't know what we're going to do about that one. And don't even bring up 2009 and the HDTV business.