Good things

[susandennis]

My LJ friends are the best. I'm in such denial about these pills that it never occurred to me they could be causing the cough plus I can't even remember what they are.

I did write it all down on my doctor's card that I stuck in my wallet next to my insurance card. BUT, I promptly forgot the information the minute that was done. One tiny pink pill, two small pink pills and one rocket sized tablet big enough to hold your grocery list. My denial prevents me from knowing their names. I'm glad that the people who read this journal and leave comments have so much more sense than I do. Thank you.

Also on my list of good things today is the tomato sandwich I had for lunch. Thick tomato slices. Sweet meaty tomato. Man oh Man, that was good.

Now it's time to see if the Mariners can continue the really not-very-nice humiliation of the Red Sox. We suck and the Red Sox don't and yet, we've won the last two games. It's kind of nice to not have to hear their fans yelling 'Yankees Suck' after the games, but that's just me being petty. (The Yankees do suck and we beat them, too, but Red Sox fans have very little sense of propriety when they visit your town and that's just not nice.)

TiVo is recording 10,000 Black Men Named George off the BET network. This is something TiVo figured out on its own that I would like. I'm watching the opening credits before I change to the ballgame. Looks like it could be interesting. Sometimes TiVo makes very good choices.

Comments

[mtnkodiak.livejournal.com]

re: tivo... do you do a lot of thumb-up/thumb-down? Just wondering because our tivo is recommending some really crappy stuff. I think it's because we keep forgetting to thumb-up the good stuff and thumb-down the bad. (?)

[susandennis]

You know, I do. They say you don't really need to thumbs up your season pass stuff but I do anyway. Particularly, though, periodically, I go through the recommendations and thumbs down the crap and thumbs up the interesting. And, (again 'they say' it's not necessary really) I also rate shows -

3 up - Do NOT Miss This one
2 up - This is a good one
1 up - If you're not doing anything else, this one was good
1 down - really, desperate material
2 down - no thanks
3 down - get this crap out of here and everything like it

BUT I also am careful. I record all Mariners games but I don't want to see any other baseball so they have 3 thumbs down. I record 3 hours of news every night but that's only so I can fast forward through the boring bits. I don't want every news show in my list so the evening news shows get 3 thumbs down.

This all sounds amazingly anal. I'm amazed.

FYI - I bulk thumb. The remote I use every day doesn't do thumbs up and thumbs down easily. So, every once in a while, I dig out the original remote and have a thumbs session.

[mtnkodiak.livejournal.com]

Makes sense to me... and it seems like as a result your tivo is able to make better suggestions. I've got to make it a point to use those thumb buttons more often. Time for a "thumbs session"... :)