A Lazy Saturday Afternoon

Feeling a bit under the weather (or the spring pollens) I settled in to a lazy afternoon. So how better to spend an afternoon of non-activity than in front of the TV. I think this is the first such day since we left Durango in September.

Only with 30 channels at our disposal, only 3 are in English. CNN gets pretty boring pretty fast. The Halmark Channel caught our attention for a bit until the afternoon special was a twisted version of Snow White where the “dwarfs” ranged from 3’6” to 6’3”, were colored in rainbow order and named after the days of the week. So we moved on to the Discovery Channel. A version of Rides was on with the story of Jay Leno and his Deisenberg. That was pretty good. Then came Brainiacs-which was anything but. At first it looked like a British version of MythBusters, a favorite back home. After watching a bit, it was like MythBusters, only with less science and a more demented. One ongoing segment was a floating office set up, when the “flood warning” goes off, the worker must grab an office item and jump into the pool and see if they’d float through the flood. Another segment could have easily been labeled “Hooters Girls Detonate Dynamite”. MythBusters has nothing to worry about, the competition doesn’t come close!

So we watch a documentary on salt mines while spring rains fall and hopefully clean whatever pollens are attacking my sinuses out of the air.

~sjt