jaysaint Getting it all down on paper…

As many of you recall, we’ve got an elaborate plan to make our two cats be friends that involves a screen door mounted in our guest room doorway.

A few moments ago all 20 pounds of Fat Sam was on the bedroom side of the door and having none of it. I heard a clanging-type sound, a loud sound, and raced down the hallway to see his big fat furry tummy plastered about three feet above the floor as he Spider-Man’d his way up the screen. Total splay spread eagle. I wish I had a photo, but my surprised laughter caused him to take the Neste Plunge.

Today’s loot:

— dark red cherries
— white cherries (which I’ve never seen before)
— summer corn on the cob
— new potatoes
— organic San Francisco sourdough bread

I’m trying not to eat all of it before Damon got home. And if there’s any doubt I’d do it, he’s already called to plead with me to save him some cherries.

I also delivered cherries, blueberries and sugar snap peas to James and Charles since they’re on day one of a two-week family visit.

I think I’ll curl up with some bread and butter while I watch more of The West Wing season four.

I’m going to make Damon get a second job just to pay our electric bill if he doesn’t stop leaving our AC unit on in the living room when he goes to bed.

— The sound mix on the Walk the Line DVD is horrendous. We’re alternating between turning it up to the proverbial 11 to catch all the dialogue and diving for the mute button to save what’s left of our eardrums when the music starts.

— Damon stands by his assertion that our visitors from last week are swingers, and that the weekend could have gone very differently.

— A reader of one of our online fictional diaries has decided that she can do better, and she’s taken the title, the story line and all the characters over to Blogspot and started writing it herself. Which she totally would have gotten away with if she hadn’t ADVERTISED HER JOURNAL IN OUR JOURNAL COMMMENTS SECTION. I wish there were a way to contact her and just nicely say, “Look, it’s got to go.” But she’s hidden her identity, which means I have to use our lawyers to ferret her out. And they won’t be as nice as I would have. I don’t feel too badly though, as she is a big jerk.

And now the harrowing story:

The boss and I were headed to Seattle on Wednesday for a day of meetings at MSN. We got picked up at the office at 3. We boarded our plane just after midnight. Then demanded to get off when we heard that we were waiting out a lightning storm and then were 75th in line for takeoff. We found out Thursday morning that the flight was eventually cancelled at 2. As I told Stacy: You know I’ve hit rock bottom when I’m eating heavily-fried food in a golf-themed sports bar located in the middle of an Arctic airport terminal. It wasn’t pretty. We did play a fun game of Would You Rather? (ie: Would you rather this flight be really turbulent or that you wind up seating next to someone who’s airsick?) (For the record, she took the turbulence and I took the airsick, but I did want to know just HOW airsick before my committment was final.)

This meme is lifted from Gi Jules.

It’s particularly entertaining to me because it gave me the feeling that I’ve wasted so much of my life in front of the tv, and at the same time made me feel like I’ve missed a lot of tv.

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Bold all of the following TV shows which you’ve ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.

Bold and italicize a show if you’re positive you’ve seen every episode of it.

If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).

21 Jump Street
24
7th Heaven
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.
America’s Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Bonanza
Bosom Buddies
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Chappelle’s Show
Charlie’s Angels
Charmed
Cheers
China Beach
Columbo
Commander in Chief (Why, I have no idea.)
Coupling – UK
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Cupid
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci’s Inquest
Dawson’s Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who
Dragnet
Due South
Earth2
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
First Monday
Frasier
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan’s Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Grey’s Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Harsh Realm
Hercules the Legendary Journeys
Hex
Hogan’s Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell’s Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Joey
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Magnificent Seven
Malcolm in the Middle
Married… With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
Next Food Network Star
NCIS
Nip/Tuck
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Pants Off, Dance Off
Perry Mason
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
ReGenesis
Relic Hunter
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Rome
Roseanne
Roswell
Saved by the Bell
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky & Hutch
Strange Luck
Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars etc
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70’s Show
That’s So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Amazing Race
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Champions
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Invisible Man (2000s)
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Professionals
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Sweeney
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three’s Company
Top Chef
Top Gear
Tru Calling
Twin Peaks
Veronica Mars
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
WKRP in Cincinnati
Wonderfalls
Wolf Lake
Xena Warrior Princess
You Can’t Do That On Television