Ed Icionsub

Friday night TV is never any good on the networks. But this is the one night of the week that most of the family is usually at home and hoping for entertainment. Thank goodness there are 100 cable channels to surf through and find something worth watching. Unfortunately we did not have a lot to pick from tonight. We ended up watching a Disney movie, called The Game Plan. It was a cute comedy starring Dwayne Johnson, the former pro wrestler called, The Rock.

Ssturdays are my busiest days. Its the day that all the errands need to be run and all the work at the house needs to be tackled. We wake up early, hit the ground running, and don’t stop until the late night news comes on at 10:00 pm.

Some nights, I am so exhausted that i cannot stay awake long enough to enjoy watching Saturday Night Live. I still love that show – I love a good comedy and the writers at SNL are always topical and hysterically funny. The bands that they feature are almost always the top tier or fast rising acts, and the guest host is always someone that is newsworthy and fun to see if they have a sense of humor as they participate in outrageous skits for an hour.

Wow – just saw a commercial with Eric Clapton for a cell phone. I think the phone is a T-Mobile exclusive, which actually is making me consider switching from AT&T so I can get this phone. It has a special design on the case and in the commercial, it shows Eric Clapton strumming what looks like guitar struts on the phone display. I wonder if that is a special application that lets you play the phone like a guitar? How would that even work? Not that it matter so much to me – I can’t play the guitar anyway. I just like the case design and the thought that it has a variety of cool apps that you can get for it. Plus, I’m a huge Clapton fan – from way back.

What a great Super Bowl. The game was actually better than the commercials for a change. Really glad to see the underdogs win this one. Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints on a well deserved win!

There’s a lot of money on the table today as the Saints play the Colts for the NFL championship. I would not be surprised if there were bets on which team would win the coin toss, bets on how many sacks will take down Manning, how many touchdowns will be in each quarter, and all kinds of other nonsense. Office pools have been passing around sign up sheets and collecting small dollar bets for days. I can’t wait to see who cashes in the biggest on this game.

My head says to pick the Colts but my heart says to pick the Saints. This will be a good game, either way.

Watched the Grammy Awards Show tonight. There were a lot of performers getting a few moments of the spotlight. Nashville was well represented in the winners circle. One of my favorite moments was the show by Pink. That woman is HOT!

I think the show was wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too long. I could have done without a lot of the lame jokes and boring stiff commentary. Some of the awards could have been mentioned in shorter moments that didn’t hog air time.And why were those actors brought into this show? Aren’t there plenty of musicians who would have done a great job on stage reading cues?

It got really boring at the end when they started bringing out rap and hip hop people who I have no idea who they are. Would it kill the show producers to run a little scrolling line at the bottom of the screen with the names of the people on stage? I have no idea who most the blacks were, but to be honest, I don’t even care enough to try to look up any of them either. I don’t like rap and hip hop music – it is disrespectful to women and encourages our young people to do drugs, commit crimes and live an irresponsible life. That should not even be allowed on the radio – it is just wrong to have our young people influenced by this crap.

Today I decided to take a long lunch and drive over to Metrocenter to the cable company office so I could exchange my remote control. They didn’t seem to have a problem with it at all. They gave me a new remote control and it even has a pair of fresh batteries with it. I can’t wait to get home and try it on my TV in the living room. I hope the new remote will turn on the TV and end the problem. If the new remote doesn’t work, then I’m facing a few weeks of no TV until I can get some money together and buy a new TV to replace it.

Although I don’t watch many shows on TNT, I did watch a series preview for a show called “Men of a Certain Age,” on my bedroom TV. I guess I won’t be watching the good TV in my living room for a few days until I can get by the cable company office and exchange my remote control.

This TNT series started several weeks ago and I hadn’t paid much attention, but while surfing channels tonight I came across the show just as it was about to start. So I gave it look.

Here the storyline from the internet listing:

Daddy issues plague both Joe (Ray Romano) and Owen (Andre Braugher), as Joe pays a visit to his curmudgeonly retired father (Robert Loggia) and Owen’s dad produces an auto-dealership commercial that suggests Owen isn’t his son and leads the viewers to believe that Owen’s coworker is the son. Elsewhere, Terry (Scott Bakula) is rejected for a youth-mentoring program, sending him on an obsessive quest to find out why he was denied.

For some strange reason, when we hooked up my TV to the digital cable box, we did something that has caused the TV to not turn on and off by the TV’s push button or switch. The only way to turn on the TV is to use the remote control that came with the cable box. And tonight the remote quit working. I tried new batteries and nothing seems to make the TV come on.

I thought that it might be worth a shot to borrow the cable remote from a neighbor and see if the remote is the problem or perhaps the TV is no longer working. It’s one thing to replace a remote and quite another to replace the TV.

My neighbor to the south was home, as I saw her car in the driveway. I dashed over to her house in between the snow flakes and knocked on her door. When she came to the door, I asked if I could borrow her cable remote. It was at that moment that I realized she does not have cable. She has a satellite TV dish in her yard. DUH!

Since I was already over there, I talked with her for a few moments about her satellite TV service. She told me that she loves it and that if I am interested in becoming a subscriber, I should check for DIRECT TV Offers to see  if there are any DIRECT TV Specials that I can use to save money.

Turns out that you can get online and easily check for DIRECTV Specials for different packages and free offers for new subscribers.  When you have the opportunity present itself to rethink your service, it might be the chance to save a little money or perhaps get more bang for your buck, like the DIRECTTV Specials I found online tonight.

I cannot believe that I have spent the entire day driving around town running errands. I’ve been on the go since 8:00 this morning and am just now getting home. I have been to all kinds of stores and gone through over $400 in small purchases here and there. Boy, they really add up!

I’m looking forward to a quiet evening with a nice dinner and a movie, and tomorrow will be hockey followed by two NFL playoff games.