Since going to college I have basically stopped watching TV with the major exception being Football. As a result I have missed out on a lot of really great shows over the course of that time and am probably still missing out on a ton. However, this is something I have slowly been trying to rectify by picking up seasons of shows on DVD, Blu-Ray, Amazon Instant Video and watching through Netflix.
Breaking Bad is currently my favorite show on TV and is probably going to go down as #1 on my all time list of best shows ever put out. It is amazingly well done, well acted and is full of pure awesome and win. Last night I finished watching Season 4 (received the package from Amazon on Saturday) and once again I was highly impressed and left wanting more after each episode. Watching the changes to the characters that have been happening since season 1 has been one hell of a ride and I am stoked that Season 5 (but sad that this is going to be the last season) starts up here in July. I now have to make a decision to either get a DVR or spend a few bucks a week to download the latest episodes from Amazon.com. After finishing up Season 4 I don’t think it’s possible for me to actually have to wait until this time next year for Season 5 to come out on Blu-Ray to finish the saga. I love this show and it will be sorely missed.
The season ended so great that I was elated to see things actually kinda sorta work out for once but knowing that there are still a ton of questions to be asked at the beginning of the new season.
For instance we are left knowing (but maybe forgetting because of the awesome finish) that Mike is still alive and had 100% loyalty to Gustavo. He was left on an operating table in Mexico (isn’t that how all Mexican vacations end?) and should figure to be a huge factor into the final season. So much more but I’m going to hold off my excitement until the new (final) season begins.
Next up is my #2 show which is The Walking Dead. This has the potential to become #1 and out of everything I have watched recently is probably the only show that I can say that about. It’s going to depend on how much I love Season 2 (I have the Blu-Ray pre-ordered from amazon) and Season 3 (which I will follow in real time as well instead of waiting for it to come out on disc). The Walking Dead also has the distinction of being the only show recently that has actually brought me to tears. No matter how much I love the drama in Breaking Bad, I still watch the emotional scenes with distance and no hard core feelings - but for The Walking Dead I was hit really hard several times. Kind of weird, but whatever.
Third is the only other show that I’ll probably be watching in real time (week to week) and that is the newest season of Doctor Who. Yes - we’ve finally made it to a show that doesn’t take itself so seriously. It’s still got some drama in it but mostly it’s a lot of goofy fun. While David Tennant was great I really love Matt Smith and his two seasons have gotten me into the show more than anything. In fact I feel that the last season might be one of the best scripted seasons of any show I have ever watched. I’m currently going through it again and there is so much that I missed the first two times through it. References that just went over my head, or references that I didn’t even know where references until after watching the full season and then coming back to watch the old episodes again. Brilliant, f’n brilliant.
However, my viewing pleasure does not end there. There are some shows I want to watch but just haven’t gotten around to. There are some shows that I’ve started watching but have to catch up on and there are some shows that cause people to look at me like “you ain’t seen that yet? you retarded or something?”
Older Shows that I’ve somehow managed to skip (either mostly or entirely) and really want to watch. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel start off this long list of awesome. Supernatural and Smallville also fall heavily into the rotation. Those 4 series will last me a good long time but I’m waiting for some good sales before buying any of them (or I just renew my netflix and do it that way I guess. Are any of them on netflix?)
I have only watched about 2 seasons worth of Dexter which is an awesome show but I’ve never had HBO or Showtime or whatever channel it’s on and just haven’t found cheap seasons when I’ve been looking. On a similar note I have never watched any of the Soprano’s and I really want to watch that show. I also need to catch up on Damages - and with that in mind I am horribly disappointed that the company that puts it out only released Season 1 on Blu-Ray and the rest as DVD only. WTF? Seriously?
Some new shows that I will be watching soon thanks to Best Buy offering a 100% trade in bonus on video games recently. Game of Thrones season 1, Hell on Wheels season 1 and Boardwalk Empire season 1. They are all waiting for me, patiently I might add. Now that I’ve finished Breaking Bad I have to figure out which one of these shows I’m going to jump into next.
I'm sure there are a lot of great programs out there that I've been missing, it's just that no one has pointed me in the right direction. So, if you all have recommendations just let me know and I'll probably test drive a few.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Ahhhh Sunday - I'm not sure if I hate you more than Monday or not but I'll finger that out eventually.
To re-cap - I haven't really slept much in the past two nights because of the 85+ degree's that this piece of shit apartment keeps when the AC decides it wants to retire.
Today is cooler currently but it's not even 9 am yet so I'm sure that's going to change.
I have a home poker game that I'm heading out to that I think starts at noon so that ought to be a few hours of fun.
For Comic Books I read up through Issue #35 of Deadpool's current run (and I bought all of those when they were on a big sale last month) and have started working on the entire run of 28 Days Later (which I also bought as a bundle with a deep discount), I'm liking 28 Days Later so far but it really makes me want to start reading through The Walking Dead again.
Paperwork for the House gets mailed out on Monday. I finally have all the documents and supporting evidence that I need and am looking forward to this whole process ending.
Spoke to a lady on Friday and she told me that once they get the paperwork and send it to an underwriter it typically takes 30-45 days. Being that i was at work at the time this conversation happened (and on the floor helping customers) I didn't get to ask too many questions so I'll have to do that this coming week.
The story on that:
Thursday I called the moment I got out of work which was around 2:30. The recorded message told me that the current hold time was "Greater than 3 hours" and if I wanted to I could leave my phone number and they would get back to me when it was my turn. So, obviously I chose that option. I received no call back.
I call again in the morning when I figure they are open and once again "The current hold time is GREATER than 3 hours" and once again I choose to receive a call back.
After entering in my phone number I am told that I am already in the system and my current wait time is between 1:15 - 1:45, more acceptable I guess.
3 hours later I call in again and am told that my current position is 7-13 minutes out.
1 hour later I finally receive a phone call, after an 18 hour wait from the first time.
This phone call came while I'm on the floor having a conversation with a manager and an employee in Flooring.
A customer is asking for help, in Flooring mind you, and the manager tells me to go take care of it even though it's not my area. As I'm getting info from the customer my phone rings and I know it's the call back and I look at the customer and tell her "Sorry, I'm a horrible employee but this is important and I've been waiting for this call for a long bloody time....."
I take the call, while chatting I help the customer and everyone goes on their happy ways.
So, it is my hope (theory, whatever) that if the package makes it to the underwriter that means that I am approved and it just takes time for everything to go through. I'm hoping that once they get it and approve me they will let me know so that I'm not sitting around in my underwear waiting by the phone for them to let me know if I'm going to have to find a new apartment of if I'm going to make one last move before I croak.
I received my copy of Breaking Bad Season 4 on Blu-Ray yesterday and ran through the 1st disc. As usual I love it and feel it's probably the best show on TV (and am going to be sad when they end it all after Season 5) but there was one thing that annoyed me during I think episode 3.
There is this scene where Jessie comes home from a hard day at work and picks up a meth-head from his living room to head to the bedroom for what I believe is going to be coked-out-sex. However once they get to the bed the chick picks up an Xbox 360 controller and starts playing a game. Within seconds Jessie grabs his controller and both are playing when they cut to the TV to show the game they are enjoying.
Mario Kart.
Mario Fucking Kart.
Seriously.
Ok, maybe I just assumed they were Xbox 360 controllers - maybe they were really black Classic controllers and I was wrong.
Camera cuts back to them playing the game and you can clearly see that they are Xbox 360 controllers, shoulder buttons and all.
I'm sure this bugged me more than it should and more than it has to anyone else, but seriously. It doesn't take much knowledge or even research to be able to not have this error.
I finished the disc anyway and enjoyed the rest of it - especially the Meth Head conversations about what zombies were better (Left 4 Dead, Resident Evil 4, Call of Duty World At War Zombie Mode, etc) and the one where the Meth Head was talking about if enough people were pushing hard on a chain link fence, that the guy at the front could conceivably be squeezed through the chain links and killed.
BooooYA!
And finally - Today is Day Zero.
While my diet technically starts tomorrow I have been following it pretty well since maybe Weds.
My first official weigh in was at 6:45 this morning and I came in at 277. I have lost 5 pounds since I bought my scale last week and am down nearly 25 pounds since I realized I was too fat to fuck.
To re-cap - I haven't really slept much in the past two nights because of the 85+ degree's that this piece of shit apartment keeps when the AC decides it wants to retire.
Today is cooler currently but it's not even 9 am yet so I'm sure that's going to change.
I have a home poker game that I'm heading out to that I think starts at noon so that ought to be a few hours of fun.
For Comic Books I read up through Issue #35 of Deadpool's current run (and I bought all of those when they were on a big sale last month) and have started working on the entire run of 28 Days Later (which I also bought as a bundle with a deep discount), I'm liking 28 Days Later so far but it really makes me want to start reading through The Walking Dead again.
Paperwork for the House gets mailed out on Monday. I finally have all the documents and supporting evidence that I need and am looking forward to this whole process ending.
Spoke to a lady on Friday and she told me that once they get the paperwork and send it to an underwriter it typically takes 30-45 days. Being that i was at work at the time this conversation happened (and on the floor helping customers) I didn't get to ask too many questions so I'll have to do that this coming week.
The story on that:
Thursday I called the moment I got out of work which was around 2:30. The recorded message told me that the current hold time was "Greater than 3 hours" and if I wanted to I could leave my phone number and they would get back to me when it was my turn. So, obviously I chose that option. I received no call back.
I call again in the morning when I figure they are open and once again "The current hold time is GREATER than 3 hours" and once again I choose to receive a call back.
After entering in my phone number I am told that I am already in the system and my current wait time is between 1:15 - 1:45, more acceptable I guess.
3 hours later I call in again and am told that my current position is 7-13 minutes out.
1 hour later I finally receive a phone call, after an 18 hour wait from the first time.
This phone call came while I'm on the floor having a conversation with a manager and an employee in Flooring.
A customer is asking for help, in Flooring mind you, and the manager tells me to go take care of it even though it's not my area. As I'm getting info from the customer my phone rings and I know it's the call back and I look at the customer and tell her "Sorry, I'm a horrible employee but this is important and I've been waiting for this call for a long bloody time....."
I take the call, while chatting I help the customer and everyone goes on their happy ways.
So, it is my hope (theory, whatever) that if the package makes it to the underwriter that means that I am approved and it just takes time for everything to go through. I'm hoping that once they get it and approve me they will let me know so that I'm not sitting around in my underwear waiting by the phone for them to let me know if I'm going to have to find a new apartment of if I'm going to make one last move before I croak.
I received my copy of Breaking Bad Season 4 on Blu-Ray yesterday and ran through the 1st disc. As usual I love it and feel it's probably the best show on TV (and am going to be sad when they end it all after Season 5) but there was one thing that annoyed me during I think episode 3.
There is this scene where Jessie comes home from a hard day at work and picks up a meth-head from his living room to head to the bedroom for what I believe is going to be coked-out-sex. However once they get to the bed the chick picks up an Xbox 360 controller and starts playing a game. Within seconds Jessie grabs his controller and both are playing when they cut to the TV to show the game they are enjoying.
Mario Kart.
Mario Fucking Kart.
Seriously.
Ok, maybe I just assumed they were Xbox 360 controllers - maybe they were really black Classic controllers and I was wrong.
Camera cuts back to them playing the game and you can clearly see that they are Xbox 360 controllers, shoulder buttons and all.
I'm sure this bugged me more than it should and more than it has to anyone else, but seriously. It doesn't take much knowledge or even research to be able to not have this error.
I finished the disc anyway and enjoyed the rest of it - especially the Meth Head conversations about what zombies were better (Left 4 Dead, Resident Evil 4, Call of Duty World At War Zombie Mode, etc) and the one where the Meth Head was talking about if enough people were pushing hard on a chain link fence, that the guy at the front could conceivably be squeezed through the chain links and killed.
BooooYA!
And finally - Today is Day Zero.
While my diet technically starts tomorrow I have been following it pretty well since maybe Weds.
My first official weigh in was at 6:45 this morning and I came in at 277. I have lost 5 pounds since I bought my scale last week and am down nearly 25 pounds since I realized I was too fat to fuck.
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