Big Brother premiere tonight

If like me, ye socks may be looking for some mindless entertainment to take your minds off weightier matters.

In which case, the folks over at CBS have stepped-up in a big way this evening with the premiere of the favorite summertime guilty pleasure in this neck of the woods: Big Brother.

Starts at 8pm for those of you fortunate enough to live on the east coast. The rest of you will just have to check your schedules.

It's gotta be "Alley Cat," or nothing at all . . .

Lest ye socks ever doubted the cliche about the finnicky nature of our feline companions, allow yours truly to disabuse you of that notion.

Fortunately, to date, that has worked in favor of the household budget in this little corner of heaven.

It seems the tastes of the resident feline run cheap.

She only likes the "Alley Cat" brand, and would rather go on a hunger strike than let anything else pass her lips.

Trust me. I've tried upgrading her to one of the more expensive name brands. But, all my efforts have been for naught.

To make the crisis worse, since landing in our current high-brow environment, there is no handy source of the preferred sustenance.

So, yes, that was me making an unplanned trek over to "the other side of the tracks" this evening in search of a Winn Dixie.

The good news is I was able to find one and get back to ye old abode before BB11 started. And, HRH is chowing down with unusually loud satisfaction in the next room. So, can someone pass the remote?!

The 3's of Me

OK, apologies in advance, but I got tagged in another one of those survey things. So, here goes:

You have been tagged. You are supposed to write a note with the 3's of YOU.

Three names I go by:
1. William
2. Little Billy (yeah, I know. that one even cracks ME up!)
3. #*()&^#*(

Three jobs I've had in my life:
1. pizza delivery
2. camera shop slave
3. salesman

Three places I've lived:
1. Orlando
2. Springfield, Virginia
3. Lubbock, Texas

Three favorite drinks:
1. Diet Coke
2. coffee
3. Malbec

Three TV shows I watch:
1. Survivor
2. Big Brother
3. NCIS

Three Places I've been:
1. Atlantic City
2. New Orleans
3. Mexico

Three people who text me regularly:
I don't normally get texts (because my plan doesn't allow me to respond anymore) but my last three were from
1. Joanna
2. Howard
3. Aunt Diane

Three of my favorite foods:
1. Mexican
2. Italian
3. Chinese

Three things I'm looking forward to:
1. tap dancing on plywood (those who know, know what they know)
2. January 20, 2013 (hope and change!)
3. The end of this recession!!

Summer has officially arrived

I know, according to the calendar, summer arrived some time ago.

And, according to ye olde thermometer and the humidity it arrived *quite* some time ago in this little corner of heaven.

But, it wasn't official until last night's debut of Big Brother, my summertime guilty pleasure.

I don't know why I can't tear myself away from this train wreck.

Every summer, I get sucked into it--watching it 3 nights a week, even following it online, etc.

Ah, well, I suppose we're all entitled to a little frivolity. Whatever it takes to get thru the dog days . . .

Prediction: the female martial arts expert wins it all this year.

Big Brother 10

Tis the season . . . for Big Brother, that is.

My not-so-secret guilty pleasure for quite some time has been this voyeuristic summertime "reality" show on CBS.

Hey! At least I don't watch that American Idol tripe on Fox!

Anyway, Season 10 of BB kicks-off tonight at 8pm.

It promises to be a doozy of a group of houseguests this time around.

I've already got two favorites:

#1 is Angie, the 29-year-old pharmaceutical sales rep from this little corner of heaven. Gotta support the hometown girl, right?

#2 is Jerry, the 75-year-old great-grandfather of 4 from Texas. He's got to be the oldest houseguest ever, and I'm interested to see what kind of dimension all his life experience might bring to the "game."

Oh, well, I better get back to my work so I won't feel so guilty about watching this show later tonight.

I hope ye socks are having as good/productive weekend as yours truly!

Stormy weather

This picture really has nothing to do with my post today, other than it makes me wonder if our local weather prognosticators drink their own bath water, too . . .

They had all of MetroOrlando in an uproar yesterday, warning everybody to get home by 6pm to batten down the hatches.

Apparently, we were in the cross hairs of two colliding air masses, the type that spawn the apocalypse.

Fire up your weather radios!

Designate a safe room!

Notify your next of kin!

And, of course, stay tuned to (FILL IN THE BLANK WITH YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL NEWS TEAM)!

All for naught.

I guess there was a twister over by the space center. But, that's 45 miles away on the coast.

All we got around these parts was a little rain. And, it was actually much-needed, says my brown lawn.

Oh, well, better safe than sorry, as the cliche goes.

But, someone should tell these people the story about the boy who cried wolf.

Thankfully, I had the season premieres of Big Brother and Jericho to entertain me on an otherwise dull evening . . .

Big Brother 9 Auditions this week!

This news bulletin just received from BB Addict Linda that may be of interest to you Central Florida socks.

Apparently, they will be holding auditions for the next season of Big Brother this Friday and Saturday at the Southern Women's Show in Orlando, 10am-2pm each day.

The good news is, you don't have to be either Southern or a woman to apply.

And, who knows, you could just be the next Janelle.

I can only live in hope . . .