My last blog post was a long time ago, back around Thanksgiving. I've been back from my trip to Utah for quite a while but I just haven't been motivated to write a blog, and when I've wanted to I just simply haven't had the energy - it seems like I'm always drained from work.

Anyway, hopefully I'll get to doing blogs soon. It's almost 2008 - I can't believe it. 2007 flew by EXTREMELY fast, I mean I remember January of 2007 like it was only last month! It's sort of scary how fast time goes.

For the past week I've spent my television viewing time to Lost, I rewatched the entire series from "Pilot" to "Through the Looking Glass" and am all freshened up and ready for the fourth season in a month. Rewatching the series in such a short period of time has confimed for me that this is simply th best show on television. Anyone who thinks the the writer's are making the whole thing up as they go is either crazy or does not pay attention very well...at all. The characters have such depth, they are so realistically played, the show is so intricately plotted and well-crafted. Of course there are a few missteps here and there but no show is perfect. The show perfectly blends genres and real-world emotion with an otherworldly mythology and mysteries. While I admit I may be in a minority, I don't mind the slow-reveal process the show takes with unveiling its mysteries. I admit that sometimes I want the answers immediately but overall I think I feel more satisfied getting hints and teases before finally seeing the truth. I think, that once this series is over and people are able to view it as a whole, that many of the naysayers won't have a leg to stand on any longer and this will be known as a show as influential and important as Twin Peaks (although...I'm not a huge Twin Peaks fan, I think it's only okay).

Other than Lost, I've been watching season one of One Tree Hill through Netflix. I must say that while it's a far cry from genius storytelling it's a decent show and even when it's cliche and cheesy, I still feel compelled to watch it. I like the characters and the down-to-earth feel of the show. When I pop in a disc I fly through the episodes fairly quickly, and I should be done with the first season by Thursday or Friday (I have to send these discs back and wait for the last two; I've been getting two at a time with a movie because I have a 3-disc-at-a-time plan) and I'll start season two shortly thereafter.

In case I don't get to write a New Years blog later today, Happy New Years!

Tonight my family and I are leaving for Utah, we'll be gone until roughly December 1st. We're driving so it will take a few days and I doubt I'll be able to get online while we're there. I'll see you guys then, hopefully while I'm gone the strike will be resolved, that will be a nice Christmas gift.

Anyway, bye you guys!

Well, the strike has only been going on two days, but it's already forced me to make drastic changes to my viewing habits. Almost every new show I was watching this season has been getting mediocre ratings and I figure the strike will probably kill them off for good, so I'll be dropping a lot of shows until after the strike is over. Except for ABC's amazing Pushing Daisies and Chuck and Gossip Girl and Dirty Sexy Money, but those shows will run out of scripts soon.

I'll also continue watching most of my returning shows until they run out of episodes: Ugly Betty, Supernatural, Desperate Housewives, The Office, and CSI to name a few. But I probably won't feel the urge to keep up with them...I can let them gather on my hard drive and watch them when I feel like it.

But for the most part my television schedule has cleared up significantly. If the strike lasts a while, what will I be doing?

Catching Up on My DVDs

I have about 15 movies I've bought that I haven't watched, most I've had for a YEAR or longer. I'll use my free time to watch all of those. I also have several seasons of shows to watch.

Cleaning Up My Hard Drive

I have hundreds of episodes of various shows on my hard drive that I need to watch, from things such as Arrested Development to Battlestar Galactica to the first season of Dawson's Creek. I'll be giving a lot of these shows a watch now, and the ones I dislike, I can delete the other episodes of said show and for the others, just watch as many as I can while the strike is going on.

Doing Other Stuff

Reading, cleaning, writing, working out...ah the stuff I'll have time for.

...Shows I'll Be Watching/Rewatching

During the strike, I plan to rewatch some DVDs I haven't seen in a while and catch up with other shows. Here's an incomplete list:

- Lost (Rewatch my first two season DVDs)

- Desperate Housewives (Rewatch my first two season DVDs)

- Roswell (Watch my season three DVDs)

- Smallville (Watch my season five and six DVDs)

- Veronica Mars (Rewatch them all)

- Dead Like Me (I saw the episodes before but haven't finished watching my DVDs since I bought them)

- The X-Files (I have the first five seasons, since buying the DVDs I've only watched the first two.)

- Millennium (I've seen all the episodes a long time ago but since buying the DVDs I have yet to watch them)

- Bones (season 2)

- Nip/Tuck (finish season 2)

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So that's basically MY plans for this strike. Might as well make the best out of a bad thing.