Hot Ham Water?

We have some friends that need to watch Arrested Development. We've been meaning to watch some with them for some time, but it just hasn't happened yet. (Just like we've been meaning to do so many other things.) Anyway, Shannon and I were discussing what we could do to have an Arrested Development (hereafter "AD") themed party to enrich the watching atmosphere, but haven't come up with much. It won't be a big party, and we aren't rich, but surely there must be something we can do to bring out the AD spirit. We could make frozen bananas . . . and . . . hot ham water? Get a crane game? A sing-along to the Final Countdown? Anyone out there got any more ideas?

RTN

Our new home is equipped with many things: yard, ceiling fans, garage, garage door, etc. But we do not have cable or any sort of dish. Those things are expensive, and we decided to try going without it. (It is rather a lot of money that most people spend on something that they readily admit they waste too much time on.) We can watch some shows online, and we invite ourselves over to friends places for BYU football games. Anyway, we recently went and invested 14 bucks in a set of rabbit ears to see what sort of 'free' tv we might get. Basically we get 1 channel, unless you include the very static-y PBS station (that I think comes from Las Vegas). And what channel do we get? ABC? NBC? CBS? Fox? KBYU? Nay! None of those! We get RTN: the Retro Television Network.

Each Sunday, we get a roughly 20 page magazine of TV listings for the week in the paper. RTN isn't included, but looking up their schedule online, you can see that RTN shows the same exact schedule of shows every day of the week. So if you want to watch Nightrider or Magnum P.I. come on over. I don't get to see the A Team, as it's on when I'm at work. The same schedule day after day (it is different on the weekends) for who knows how long. No plans to change for the holidays, or anything like that. I imagine that right after Thanksgiving dinner we'd be able to get together to watch Dragnet if we wanted. (Unless your family eats Thanksgiving dinner at noon, in which case you might be done in time for Kojak.) Anyway, our TV is awesome.

(We'll be getting a digital converter box soon so we can see if any digital stations make it to our house.)

The Big Bang Theory

Shannon and I watched the first episode of "The Big Bang Theory" on CBS the other night. We enjoyed it thoroughly. It's about a pair of guys who are both nerds and geeks, who happen to have a good looking girl move in across the hall, who is thoroughly non-nerd/geek. (She's a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory!) Mostly, the show is good for Leonard and Sheldon bantering back and forth about nerdy things. You should watch it! It's great. I'm thinking I need my own board where I can do QM with string theory doodles around the edges.