Zibblog

This last fall and winter were pretty busy for us. My parents completed the sale of the family business and their house, so they came out here for a month and a half starting around thanksgiving. Over thanksgiving week, Leslie and I went to Costa Rica, which was a lot of fun and included me on a zip line. At some point, I’ll get some of those photos up on Flickr.

After we returned, my dad and I spent a bunch of time on the 3rd stage of home renovations. For this one, we took the existing shelves out of the laundry area, painted and replaced the lights in there, and put up ikea cabinets. Some of the other projects included shelving in the garage, some improvements in the home office including changing the baseboard, new crown molding in the office and bedroom, and a few other odds and ends. At this point, we are done with pretty much everything except for the kitchen, which will require a major remodeling sometime later this year after we recover from the wedding expenses.

After reading a post about TV watching by Nate, I felt like writing up what I’m currently watching (as an aside, I have to agree with Michelle that the whole household has to take responsibility for what is on the tivo). This probably doesn’t cover everything, but it’s what I could remember.

Weeknights

• Poker After Dark: 6 man winner take all texas holdum games with 5 hours of tv per game.

Sunday

• Battlestar Galactica: kind of waiting for Universal HD to catch up with SciFi Channel

Monday

• Prison Break
• 24: best season yet
• Heroes: absolutely love it
• Studio 60: it’s no Sports Night

Tuesday

• NCIS: it’s no JAG (take that however you want)
• The Unit: if you haven’t seen this one, season one is available on Netflix. :)
• Veronica Mars: this has been my least favorite season, but I’m still hoping it isn’t the last.
• House

Wednesday

• Friday Night Lights
• Jericho: favorite show of the new season (except maybe for Heroes)
• Lost

Thursday

• Smallville: I’m still watching but please let it end so that I can finally see the final scene of Clark putting on the suit
• CSI
• Grey’s Anatomy: I’m unashamed that this is probably my favorite show on TV (Writers’ Blog)
• Shark: I felt like this one started great, but I haven’t been that into it lately.

Friday

• Las Vegas: this hasn’t been the best season, but I can’t pass up Vanessa Marcil and Nikki Cox in HD.
• Monk: another show that I used to like a lot more

Stuff on at various times or currently on hiatus

• Stargate
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Don’t miss this one! Season 1 is available from Netflix or you can catch it on one of the Nickelodeon channels.
• Eureka
• Dead Zone

I’ve been watching the Bears for over 20 years and virtually every one of those years has been pretty rocky.  Somewhere along the way, we became where old quarterbacks came to die or where young quarterbacks came to get all their career interceptions out of their systems.  However, during last night’s game, a lot of commentators were talking about the fact that it looks like the bears are for real this year.  Somehow, they’ve emerged as the only undefeated team in the NFC, but I’m just hoping that they don’t choke too bad between now and January.  This article on ESPN.com pretty well sums up what I’m thinking currently.