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  1. I can cook somewhat, but I just have no stamina to do it now, let alone the dishes afterwards. I have to rely on easy to make, easy to clean up, yet still healthy/healthy-ish. One thing that's surprised me is how good of a frittata I can make in the microwave. I take a frozen bag of Birdseye steam in bag Spring Mix which has potatoes, asparagus, peas, and onions sautéed in a garlic butter sauce. Cook/heat it completely in microwave per directions. Scramble 4 eggs in microwavable dish. Take out heated Birdseye veggies open and empty contents of bag into the eggs. Sometimes, I add a slice of pepper jack cheese ripped Into smaller pieces and mix that in too. Microwave all that for 4 minutes. And out comes, in my opinion, one of the most delicious frittatas I've had. And afterwards, it's only one dish to clean.
  2. Today, for the first time in 14+ months... I left my house. I went to a doctor's appointment. My GP is going to prescribe me back on my mental health meds. I'm exhausted mentally and physically. I physically hurt...everywhere. That is what, for me, feeds the mental side of my aversion to going out. But enough was enough, I had to go. The doc did an exam and took some blood and gave me some new prescriptions. We'll go from there. BP was 144/81 and I'm already on 2 meds for hypertension. But they took it again towards the end of the appointment and it was 132/75. Also, I've lost 70 lbs since 14 months ago. Unfortunately, most of that was due to how bad I've been feeling. But some of it has been from being disciplined on my diet during the times I was feeling better. I accomplished something today.
  3. Is this the most unintentionally creepy thing The Muppets have done...or was it totally intentional? It is creepy though, isn't it? It's not just me? Creepy and...mesmerizing...
  4. When M*A*S*H was airing the producers had the whole debate about laughtracks, they didn't want it, the network demanded it, and in the end a compromise was reached where they would never have a laughtrack during scenes in the O.R. I think that's how that happened... There was also the great Aaron Sorkin series Sportsnight, that preceded The West Wing by 1 year. The first season had a laughtrack, the second season they were able to get rid of it. During the 80's there was a really good John Ritter half hour single cam series called Hooperman. It was styled back thren as a new kind of show...a dramedy. I see a lot of influence from that show on single cam series of today. Also, no one asked for it, but I have a penchant for lists so here is my totally subjective, U.S. centric, personalized list top 10 favorite comedies of all time: 1. The Office (U.S.) 2. Community 3. MASH 4. Taxi 5. Barney Miller 6. Newsradio 7. Frasier 8. All in the Family 9. Parks and Recreation 10. Arrested Development It may seem strange or even an outrage that sitcoms like I Love Lucy or The Honeymooners do not make it into my top ten. With I Love Lucy, I watched it quite a bit, starting as a kid and into adulthood, I recognize its greatness and also that it was the first to establish the tropes that in subsequent years so many other sitcoms have followed along in its footsteps and utilized. I liked the show, but by the time I was alive and was watching it, it was just one of many shows that had the same kind of format, the same kind of humor, even if it was actually the first. It just never stood out to me as better than the other shows I loved, either as a kid or an adult. With The Honeymooners, it was never on when I was a kid, or I never came across it. There were only 39 “classic” episodes of it, especially when I was a kid, the rest, known as “lost episodes” were rescued and restored kinescopes (recording of a television program on film directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor) of Honeymooners sketches from The Jackie Gleason Show. I understand it’s a classic and I have seen enough and know enough to recognize when it’s being referenced, I just never got invested in the show. Maybe in the future I’ll give it the chance it deserves. It may also be surprising that a series like Seinfeld isn’t on my top ten list. Truthfully, If this was the 90’s, it would be in my number 1 spot. However, Seinfeld, for me, loses something in every rewatch. It seems once I know how the entire plot of an episode will come together that takes out a lot of the comedy that comes from being shocked and surprised. I still think the show is one of the greats, I’ve just come to a point where there are other shows I love so much more and would rather rewatch them over rewatching Seinfeld.
  5. Barney Miller is such an amazing show it pains me how much it's been forgotten. While its fashion, setting, and attitudes (on the surface, at least) are extremely 70's the topics it tackles and characters portrayed are just as relevant today, if not, more so, than they were back then. I get more out of this series on each rewatch and it's a series I can rewatch frequently with tons of enjoyment each time. It's amazing that like 95% of the series, takes place entirely in the precinct squad room and Barney's office! Each episode is like watching a mini stage play. You hardly ever see the plain clothes officers outside the squad room...you see them come back to the precinct and tell the story of what happened...usually bringing a caught suspect to temporarily be put in the tiny lock up cage in the same room and maybe a witness or two following. They TELL you what happened, then a lot of the times they leave, go out again and come back then TELL you what happened AGAIN. All the while the meat of the story takes place with character interactions right there. It all just happens on that one set and it is fantastic! Plus it's got Tessio from The Godfather and Shepherd Book from Firefly! I'll second admiration for Raising Hope! I really like My Name is Earl, but I like Raising Hope even more. A couple series available on You Tube I often do rewatches of...a great Dennis Leary cop series comedy...The Job. This was the show he did a little bit before Rescue Me and you see A LOT of the seeds of that subsequent show in this one. Technically it's 2 seasons but the first season is only 6 episodes and the second one is like 18, I think. It's an extremely cynical show and extremely funny in that way. Where in Rescue Me was directly in the shadow of 9/11 and that was a big part of the show, The Job is a snap shot of New York just before, like almost right before. The 90's were ending/over and you get a glimpse of how the 21st century might have been if 9/11 hadn't happened. The other show is Titus. During the height of the pandemic, Christopher Titus put all the shows up legally on YouTube just for an option of something to do. Not only that he actually made a new episode, reuniting the cast, as a final episode for the series. It's a great show!
  6. I remember Frasier taking over Seinfeld's time slot for one season, the season right after Seinfeld ended, then it was moved back to Tuesday and Will and Grace took that slot. Many of the shorter lived shows like Boston Common, I remember just as much from watching on USA than NBC. In the late 90’s? Maybe early 2000's, the USA network bought up a whole bunch of 90's series that lasted 2 seasons, or at most 3 abbreviated seasons. They were aired on a 2 hour block weekdays from 8am - 10am, enough time to air 4 different shows. They showed Boston Common, Working, The Single Guy, Something So Right, The Naked Truth, Almost Perfect, Ned and Stacy, Hope and Glory, and some others. When one show would run its course they'd replace it with another short lived series.
  7. For the ten years Friends was on...it was appointment television for me. I was devoted to it. I think I managed to watch every episode as new episodes, as they were broadcast for the first time. Then the show ended and I was just done too. I never watched it again unless it was on someone else's TV and they were watching it. Both Seinfeld and Friends were in my top 5 favorite shows while they were on, and now I really never want to watch episodes of either of them again. The magic I felt when watching those shows, just wore off pretty fast. I did also watch the show Episodes and really enjoyed it. I'd do a rewatch of that before I'd do a rewatch of Friends. After Friends, Mathew Perry tried a bunch of different series that only lasted 1 season, until he ended up doing the Odd Couple reboot. If one of those shows could have lasted more than one season, I wish it had been, well... Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip But if TWO of those shows could have lasted longer, the other one I would have wanted would be Go On, where he played a guy going to am emotional support group after losing his wife. That show had a fantastic cast and had zany humor, wry wit. and heart aching/warming moments. I thought it was going to last longer than it did. My Friends ranking though is 1. Chandler 2. Joey 3. Rachel 4. Monica 5. Phoebe 6. Ross Can we talk 90's televsion? I'll limit it to just NBC sitcoms in the 90's... There were the time slot hangers-on shows. Series that lasted longer than they should have because they aired after Friends or Seinfeld and fed off their ratings. Shows like The Single Guy, Suddenly Susan, and Caroline in the City. I tolerated these shows back in the day, but now I would rather watch paint peel. Boston Common, which lasted 2 sessons, wasn't great but was pretty okay, definitely would have enjoyed more of that and less of the three shows just mentioned above. There was a Fred Savage series though that also lasted only 2 seasons that I really liked, called Working. I wouldn't mind rewatching that. Dabney Coleman had a new sitcom that debuted the same year Friends did, called Madman of the People. It was touted to be that year's break out hit series. It didn't make it through it's first season, even when it was time slotted to air right after Seinfeld. Another series that was supposed to be a hit Stark Raving Mad, starring a post Wings and Pre Monk Tony Shaloub and a post Doogie Howser and pre HIMYM Neil Patrick Harris also only lasted one season. NBC actually gave two seasons though to the Rob Schneider led American version of Men Behaving Badly. Ugh!!! A Jeff Foxworthy sitcom kept popping up during this time for a couple sessons. Kept bouncing around on different networks. I never really watched it, I just know Haley Joel Osment and Jonathan Lipnicki (the kid from Jerry McGuire) played his kids. A couple other network hoppers around this time, a Tea Leoni sitcom called The Naked Truth and a blended family sitcom called Something So Right. The heavy hitters other than Friends and Seinfeld and/or the workhorses of 90's NBC prime time... Mad About You I think is one of the lasting really good shows! I've rewatched it several times and still find it quite enjoyable. I really enjoy Lisa Kudrow playing Phoebe's sister, Ursula, on that show, a whole bunch more than I do Phoebe. Also helps she comes in smaller doses. Wings, 3rd Rock From the Sun, Just Shoot Me, NewsRadio, and Frasier are all fantastic shows I'm happy to rewatch. The latter two are in my top 10 favorite sitcoms of all time. Will and Grace was a good show but I wasn't as into it as the others. I still haven't seen any of the reboot series. Blossom and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air were also on at this time, I watched them but they were never appointment televsion. The Cosby Show, A Different World, Cheers, Night Court, and Family Ties were all great shows and I think most made it into the early 90's, but they will always be quintessential 80’s shows to me.
  8. I recognized her, second Carol, from The Famous Teddy Z and Herman's Head. Two shows I'd much rather there be a discussion about than Friends...
  9. Thanks to The Muppet Show, if it hadn't been for it, I would have never been introduced to so many talented people and so many fantastic songs, most definitely Leo Sayer and The Show Must Go On. I might have heard a song like You Make Me Feel Like Dancing here and there, but a song like this one, I likely would have gone through life never even knowing this song existed, this amazing version of it or any version of it, by any artist at all. And that would have been such a loss!!! The only thing that could have made this better is instead of that one muppet, the banjo player had been Kermit, sitting on a crate behind Leo, legs folded, banjo in his lap, playing his heart out...
  10. I don't think so? Being an introvert plus my mental health right now has me seriously avoiding an interactions and doubting myself that I have a right complain. Plus, I'd take the abuse as it is 100% over risking an escalating feud. I really couldn't handle that right now.
  11. I'm being bullied by a neighbor. They started by actually being nice and doing things for me, I. Ever asked, they volunteered. Then it went to gaslignting me, blaming me for why they have to get so harsh, telling me my mental issues are no excuse for my problems. It quickly came to a point where I just wouldn't acknowledge having problems, I was always "Fine." "Doing good." Around them. Then it came to them looking for me to have a problem and then interjecting themselves, seeing another chance to berate me, tell me how unworthy I am, how my mental issues are no excuse for anything. It's gotten to the point where I can't ask someone else to help me with things like bringing in groceries, if they see it, (and they seem to always be looking) they are going to come over and give me an earful. I walk on eggshells around this person and they are accusing me of getting triggered when they go off on a rant criticizing me. I stay calm in front of them the whole time. I save my breakdowns for after they leave, when I am alone.
  12. I'm hoping what we've seen since the Dobbs decision with voting in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, the special election in NY, etc. indicates that's been strongly reversed.
  13. MTG is upset because of the new Georgia law banning food and water to be handed out to people waiting in line to vote. She has no problem about the law...she's upset because of Curb Your Enthusiasm has made a show about it...
  14. Did you see how bad he was booed at the sneaker con?
  15. Steve Shives just said this in his latest video, I don't know if he was quoting someone else, but it's a pretty damn good quote: "Sometimes success is the result of being able to choose the failure you can survive over the one you can't" He was talking about an episode of Star Trek but then he was like "yeah, I'm really talking about the upcoming election..."
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