Baseball is evil. What isn't evil, anyway?

So I just found out that "Prison Break", like "the OC" and "House", is pre-empted for weeks during the baseball playoffs. Sigh. How annoying! Anyway "Prison Break" was up to #40 last week in the ratings. Upward trends are good. I watched "CSI NY" last night because "Law & Order" was doing a Terri Schiavo-inspired story and I'd had enough of that. "CSI NY" was lame. Now I know why I don't watch it regularly. A women kills a friend's adopted (not biological) daughter over a 20 year old grudge of losing a guy? Ridiculous. Worst was the mobbed up meat packing cliche. Ugh. And how many times did they have to tell us the new girl is from Montana? Bad TV.

"Criminal Minds" supposedly took place here but I didn't recognize the neighborhood. It might've been a neighboring city in the county but it was probably Canada or something. The birthday subplot of precocious geek who can't get a date was lame. Mandy was ok but he needs something to really sink his teeth into. The CG birds annoyed me. I guess trained birds cost too much. Who is developing these plots, the UCLA film school? Bah. TV this season is horrible.

Hmm to Apple's new video ipod and the new iMac. It's nice to see TV shows can be downloaded but other than Housewives I don't watch those ABC-Disney network shows. $2 per show when you can't burn them is silly. You end up paying as much for these downloads as for a DVD set. Resolution is not anywhere close to DVD. Both avoid commercials though. Oh, and these downloads cannot be burned! It's not exactly a fabulous deal. Maybe if you had broadcast quality available or could burn them you'd have something.

Ordered "Batman Begins" and "Adventures of Superman" DVD set (Muz did captions for it!) which should arrive next week. George Reeves is my all time favorite Superman. Yes, these are the black-and-white episodes but they were good enough for me as a kid, I'm sure I'll enjoy them. I don't know how many (if any) later sets I'll get but I wanted to pick up this first one. It's way overdue. I'm not sure about the 1943 Batman serials coming on DVD.

I loved the 1949 serials but these from '43 have Batman & Robin as FBI agents due to regulations of the day, is often slammed for "racist" war-time elements (the villian is an asian scientist, I think) and have a different cast from the '49 serials. If I see it cheap, maybe I'll get it. Also there is more than one version. One has sanitized dialog! That purification's almost a reason worth getting the unmolested "insensitive" version.

Sleep has improved since I voted early this week. It's probably coincidence. I also reopened the bedroom window for some fresh air while sleeping.

I think Duckie is feuding with me. I'm too emotionally tired to feud.

I'm still trying to figure out if I want to goto the air show this weekend. So many outings with my nephew have simply not happened that I think it's a defensive element now. I'm like Lucy's football and Charlie Brown. I'm not playing the Lucy part. I thought back and it's been almost a fully year since one of these planned events has actually gone off. That was Thanksgiving which only required showing up at their place and eating. Before that? I just can't remember. Hell, Mother and I even got cheated on the niece's birthday cake after we were rescheduled specifically so everyone could have it together. That was only last month. Out of defensiveness: I guess I just don't give a fig. So many times working my schedule around these events, changing my hours of sleep and so forth and nothing. Bah. "Bah!," I say!

More soon. Maybe. (Grumble... typos.)