Our Tivo seems to have fixed itself. Not entirely sure how this happened but I turned on the tv and it was working. Maybe that last attempt at hard rebooting it by unplugging it from the power strip did it. The little internal tivo modem seems to be working fine despite what the tech support woman said. So that’s good. Clearly we really desperately missed the Tivo since it hasn’t worked since June and might have been working for the last two weeks right?

I don’t do much tv watching in the office so hopefully when Mr. Man wins the tivo for his City of Heroes movie I can get one in the den and use it a whole lot.

Last night they showed “My Own Private Idaho” then “Napoleon Dynamite” on Cinemax. Connection? They both take place in Idaho - well some of MOPI takes place in Idaho but it also has scenes in Rome, Portland, and Seattle. It’s kind of fun trying to figure out what kind of themes are in programmers’ subconscious. Or maybe this was a planned theme? Who knows.

I’ve always believed that my ideal job would be writing the movie synopses for Direct TV and movie guides. Anyone know how one goes about getting this job?

Does anyone else feel like demanding they have their old A&E channel back? I thought it was supposed to be television for history and architecture nerds, not people who enjoy watching drunken fools try to board airplanes and bounty hunters with terrifying hair. I see no Arts or Entertainment in watching employees of a mortuary make repeated failed attempts at quitting smoking, I did enough of that on my own before finally succeeding (so far). And while I’m on the subject I don’t see the biographical relevance of “Murder She Wrote” so why is it on the Biography channel? I know this is silly but goddammit I want my America’s Castles back! If I wanted to watch reality tv I wouldn’t be paying sixy plus bucks a month for satellite tv, I’d be watching locally broadcast channels wouldn’t I?

Oh and I was reading a series of posts on fun fur hate and entertained myself for fifteen minutes by ripping off the old pro-choice bumpersticker and making a few buttons.

To be honest I don’t get the fun fur hate. I’ve used it twice and have a bunch waiting to be made into little hedgehogs, and believe me, fun fur is perfect for making little hedgehogs. But apparently there are lots of people who just love to hate on the fun fur. And it’s annoying to me with all the snark about it everywhere that I have to feel defensive over what kind of friggin yarn I choose to knit with. That’s just silly!

I understand that people have their different tastes in yarn - for tactile and aesthetic (not to mention financial or allergic) reasons. And hey, they have every right to pick and choose what kind of yarn they’re going to use. It’s their hobby and they should enjoy what they’re doing. But that doesn’t mean they get to dictate what other people do with their time and money.

I took this hobby up because I wanted it to be fun. I don’t plan on joining the knitting olympics and have no intention of knitting for anyone’s approval. I probably will submit a few things to the NM state fair just for the hell of it. And, egads, it might even be a funfur hedgehog in the toy category.

I just don’t understand this tendency for people to feel superior to others for what yarn they use, what food they eat, or, for that matter, their comparative body fat ratio. It’s fine to have personal standards, I can understand that but why the need to force yours on other people? To me it smacks of insecurity in the same way that people who are insecure in their religious faith feel the need to force it on others.

If you were really secure in your weight, food habits, yarn choices, or religion you wouldn’t really need to discuss other peoples’ would you? Just a (cranky) thought.

Now, feeling superior to people for their political beliefs or intelligence? That’s another matter! Just kidding. Mostly.