The Steam Valve pops....

So like, okay, after reporting our road adventures and being good, we’re back home and there are some this’s and that’s that have come up that I feel the need to rant about:

We were watching the local evening news last evening getting our daily dose of depression when they interviewed some young lady student about something or other. I stopped counting the “like’s” at about ten. “So it was, like, I said, and then, like it was, well, like they did, like”. The screaming on my part obliterated any idea of what the story line was. I’m, like, so glad I’m not growing up today. What happened to the language?

Then, we mostly watch NBC because for whatever reason we enjoy Brian Williams for our national edition of depression. As we’ve noted before, the commercials during the news tell the story of NBC’s target audience. Between the ads for anti-artery clogging, brain clearing, intestinal cleansing drugs (if it’s right for you), and the 63 year old, multiple face-lifted Sally Field emoting about osteoporosis, they also tout their upcoming shows. I suppose that there is a bottomless market for watching others suffer, but NBC seems to present an endless series of “hospital” shows, showing either patients writhing on the floor, or some tearful angel of a nurse “saving” somebody. Gimme a break.

Whew. There. Thanks, I feel better, Oh a quick sdd on..

As a postscript to our “Tony’s” experience, I forgot to mention that they are not immune to the economy. As the menus were delivered, there was a little card placed on your plate about “dinner for one”. You can get a three course dinner, with a couple of choices for each for 50 bucks. I am not sure how to take this. It would be a great opportunity for somebody to experience a first class restaurant and cuisine without spending an arm and a leg, but do they really NEED to do this? Even if they economize, you must not when you

DFD

PS Happy Anniversary Big Bird!! Where were you when...