This being the first week of August it is time for the annual television programming party. Yes, modern TVs feature the automatic channel surfing feature, which can resolve the situation in a matter of moments. Yes, our television is modern.
Also, we have a DVR with a tuning card the cable company provided rendering this automatic tuning feature useless. They’ve also provided a printed cable pamphlet written by a sugar-addled copywriter and a regularly changing lineup that amazes and confounds simple viewers like me.
So the process begins, ignoring the guide, which is a programming feature, and manually flipping through the channels manually. Writing down the stations that exist, making note of the station and then continuing on to the next one. I worked through the first third of the array today, noting we receive four home shopping networks, more Jersey Shore than any teen needs and, in my Super Digital Ultra Deluxe Package 3000 I can’t have Morgan Freeman educating me about wormholes. Oh, I know the Science Channel exists, I can get the icon in the user interface, but not any of the programming.
When we first moved in we had the Science Channel, and it was soon taken away. For one brief period we could watch the show, and Morgan Freeman narrated the heck out of it. And then it was gone. Through the wormhole, as it were.
Worked. Emailed. Read. We also visited World Market, where I was told to come back on Tuesday, or possibly Thursday, to find the thing I’d wanted on Monday. The young lady at the front walked me through two of the stands at the front, did not find it and made a phone call. “Come back,” she said in a hopeful, helpful way. And so we did.
And we looked, not finding the item du jour again. And then another lady helped me find the proper label. That was a nice service. I like World Market, and you will too.
See? They made it easy for me to spend my money there today.
Then we started birthday shopping. The Yankee has a particular item on her list, and now we must find it. So we’re looking for summer sales, and hit three stores, finding the right size, but the wrong details, or the right details but the wrong size, and so on. We’ll hit a few more stores tomorrow.
In the meantime, the farmers market, where we picked up a watermelon, cantaloupe, okra and peaches. Dropped them off at home and visited one of the neighborhood parks.
The Southeastern Raptor Rehabilitation Center was performing an owl release, and they turned it into a big evening party. Live music, food, raffles, bouncing things for the kids, Aubie, the winged ones. I made a video:
And when we got back home we rode our bikes, a quick seven mile evening.
Very warm, nice summer day, lovely in every way. Hope yours was too.
