Meme Lemming: 30 Days of TV - 01

I thought I'd do this 30 Days of TV meme that's been floating around. I'm sure I'll date my television watching habits by my answers, but I figure I will expand your TV horizons, too.

And as with any meme, I plan on playing fast and loose with the rules. The first rule out the window is to post one a day. I know that won't happen because I'm already planning on being gone to Convergence over the 4th of July weekend. I'll do all 30 days, just not consecutively.

Day 01 - Show that was canceled too soon.

Two, for the sake of not following the rules already.

1) Dresden Files. Totally loved the show. Can't really get into the books. It turns out that the things I really loved about the show, were things that they changed from the book. I still have the books, so I'm going to try to read them again. Anyhow. I really, really wish they could have given us two or three more seasons of the show.

2) Stingray. I waxed eloquent on Stingray back here and here. A show that missed it's audience in part due to NBC not knowing what to do with it and in part because, as my second post says, it didn't follow any set rules television making. I really would have liked some more of the show. It had legs, if only it would have been allowed to run.

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Apathetic Parenting

Myr has been painting on her wall mural all week. She's put in an average of 14 hours of painting a day (with lunch and supper and breaks and critiquing of the work in progress put in there). The goal was to have the murals finished by Friday (as in yesterday). Only two of the 8 muralists finished. The rumor was if you didn't finish the mural would be painted over. Myr knew this wasn't true, but irrational fear can't be rationalized away and she was stressed yesterday. They were told that they could have today and next week to continue if they needed too. Yay!

I dropped her off this morning at 8 am. She's sure that she will be done around 1 pm today. They only have until 3 pm for painting today. And I'm thinking she may use all the time for details and touch ups. As she got out of the car, she told me that she really liked the little texts that WIl has been sending her every day. Little encouraging notes and telling how great she is for doing this and how this will be forever -- you know, standard Dad stuff. I told her that he was really proud of her. As was Papa (my dad) and Granny and, well, everyone. That is was really cool and she was putting in so much hard work and....

She goes, "I know. Everyone says that. I keep telling them its not that great. But they walk by and go 'Wow, that's terrific!' But it's... arrgggh."

Heh.

So I go: "Well, just so you know: I don't care. I'm dropping you off, but I really don't think it's all that awesome. Don't fear, I'll be your one apathetic parent."

She grinned. "Thanks."

So I sent her a text: "I don't care how you're doing. Just FYI." And an hour later: "Still don't care about your painting. Not thinking of you at all. LOVE."

I hope that conveys the true level of my not caring.

I will post pictures of the completed project later, just to prove that I don't care and to show how indifferent I am to the whole thing.

Meme Lemming: 30 Days of TV - 02

Day 02 - A show you wish more people were watching

I'm not sure about this. Mostly because I have no idea what the ratings are for shows that I watch. I will say that I think that everyone should watch Castle. It's light and fun and full of great characters. But then I could say the same thing for Leverage and White Collar. So watch them, too. Of the three, I think that Castle is the one with the "most likely to be canceled" tag on it, if only because it's on a major network.

I know that Chuck has low ratings and that stresses people out. Mind, I don’t really watch it, but more people should because it would make people I like happy. And, yes, I recognize the irony of me saying more people should watch a show that I really don't watch.