Remember when I mentioned
earlier that I thought that I wouldn’t be able to record the syndicated Big
Bang Theory episodes that I wanted to? Well, I was almost caught off guard by
the random airing of random episodes, but I was able to get two more of those
episodes recorded on VHS. Now I have only two more episodes left to record.
I wonder if the election in
this show will be more important in the future or not. We know that in order
for the show to stay true to its name, it will have to be about a female
secretary of state. That would mean keeping the president the same. I feel that
he will win his upcoming reelection campaign. What I don’t know is whether or
not he’ll survive the whole series. If I had to make a bold claim right now, I
would: the president on this show will die at some point. To me, it only seems
like a natural thing to happen in the end. I just wonder when this will happen
and if they’ll be any lead up to it or not. It could come right out of the blue
and shock us all.
I’m very backlogged on
recorded shows on VHS. Just recently I watched a Thanksgiving episode of Bones
that I had recorded. Now when I’m behind enough on tapes, I tend to just watch
only tapes until I’m caught up. But I have certain rules with how many of these
I’m able to watch without having to roll for something. I’ve never had the
problem before where I run out of these automatic watches before I am more
caught up on these tapes. Now I have another list of shows that I’m watching
through that doesn’t include the recorded shows on VHS as an option. That means
rolling from this list means getting another of these jump aheads as I call
them. So I’ll just take a break from the automatic watching on VHS until I have
enough of those jump aheads to finish watching another tape. Besides, there’s
still one more recorded episode that I have to watch of this show. As for the
whole process of rolling from different choices to decide what to watch and
various other stuff relating to it as detailed in this paragraph and others
like it, I know that it’s crazy and doesn’t make a lot of sense, but I’m still
doing it.
March Madness is starting this
week so that means the return of tape delay. Just when you thought it was over
for the season, it rears its ugly head back into our lives by affecting us this
week and the next. Of course, March Madness is going to be different this year
and every even numbered year from now for the near future. I am telling you
that I will have to record the episode on VHS and with a tape delay likely, I
have no idea what might happen. But I’m planning on doing tapes a bit
differently since The Good Wife is ending this season. Normally they would be
in a different section of blog posts, but with both the slowness of my blog
posts and the ability to get caught up as quickly as I can now on tapes before
I would have had to post these episodes, I’m not sure why I’m worrying about
things being out of order when they don’t have to be (yet were anyways). Did
you understand that? I’m not sure that I did and I just wrote it. The point is,
I am working on better processes for staying caught up on these episodes. I
just hope that nothing goes wrong with these recordings.
Before I get to the episode, I
will reveal how I root for a team in March Madness. Last year, I rooted for the
team that won the game that delayed shows on CBS. But they got eliminated from
the tournament. The next time the shows were delayed was due to a game that
Duke won. I then rooted for Duke to win the tournament from then on, which they
did. In a way, I was glad that Kentucky didn’t win as I felt the media was
biased towards them. But that’s beside the point. If I can figure out who is
playing who during that game, I will root for whoever wins with the winner of
the game next week on Sunday as my back-up team. Of course, recording shows
could be an issue, but I doubt the delay would last over an hour. I’ll just
record stuff from seven to ten and hope that the delay doesn’t last too long.
This will mean missing some of Elementary, but I’m okay not watching that this
week.
Actually, when it comes to
March Madness, there are some teams that I might root for or at least check up
on besides whoever wins the games that will cause tape delay of this show. Like
I might still root for Duke since they are in the tournament again this year. I
will check up on Butler’s team since my cousin went to school there. I don’t
know what other relatives of mine went to colleges that are in the tournament.
Meanwhile, I’ll also be looking out for Wichita St. (that’s a state?) since I
was rooting for them at one point last year before they were eliminated from
the tournament.
I still don’t know what game
will be airing before 6 on CBS on Sunday. I have looked up some of the
information and it seems that I should know which games aren’t airing at that
time, but not which one will just yet. Meanwhile, I’m still not sure how I’m
watching these shows. I might be able to watch them live, but I probably won’t,
so I’m planning on recording them. As for the three teams I’m following thus
far (Duke, Butler, and Wichita St.), they all went from the crowded 64 to the
still big 32 (do you like my names for these parts of the tournaments?) by
winning their first game (or first two games in the case of Wichita which had
to win a play-in game to get in the actual tournament part).
When it comes to the second
round of games, Wichita States loses and does not go on to the sweet sixteen.
Duke wins its game against Yale and advances in the tournament. That leaves the
fate of Butler. They had to face a first seeded team and they lost so only Duke
remains my team of interest. That is, until the VCU versus Oklahoma game is
played. VCU is the lower seeded team. Can they pull off another upset? Will
Oklahoma stay a good team? We’ll see.
The game went back and forth a
lot between VCU and Oklahoma. It cut into what should have been 60 Minutes as I
knew it would. The team that advances will be Oklahoma. I’m not sure if
I’ll root for them over Duke or not, but I might. They will have to face each
other in the Elite 8 if they both make it that far. Meanwhile, the Elite 8
should be what’s on CBS next week before primetime and I’ll have to see which
of the games they are airing.
Today’s episode is brought to
you by 35 minute delay. We begin with a protest of some sort in Chile by the
looks of it. Ally wants to be more normal, but it’s hard to be normal when your
mother is the secretary of state. Various things go on while people try to find
a solution to problems. Alison goes to explore a potential college. Now one
shouldn’t just go to college just because one graduated high school. While it
is in general a good idea to go to college, one shouldn’t go there just because
it seems like the next logical step as it could just be a waste of money and
put you in debt. People greet Elizabeth at the college, something they
originally didn’t want to do. This is a generally weird opening if you ask me.
I’m not entirely sure what all of it means.
In segment two, there is some
fall out based on the incident from before the commercial and it appears that
it was recorded in an edited way. Elizabeth talks to Russell about this. Now I
had an ominous opinion about Russell. I thought that he might be evil and shoot
everyone to death. I now realize after rewatching the Bourne Legacy why I felt
that way: that’s what he did in that movie. He probably won’t be doing that in
this show. Henry and his team talk to a person through another person about
some sort of problem. A person seeks to go up a mountain and record what he’s
doing, even if it kills him.
In segment three, there are
more issues on campus and it appears that the McCords have to be in disguise in
a way. A possibly nice person helps them. Elizabeth talks to the person from
earlier. She brings this person’s parents into the mix.
In segment four, there appears
to be more resolved issues between Elizabeth and the college kid from earlier.
That issue is mostly resolved, it seems. Henry works more with whatever issue
he is working with. There are problems with the climber person.
In segment five, it turns out
that Alison had gone to a party instead of poetry. Things could have ended
badly here, but they didn’t. The climber person who got caught in an avalanche
is found safely. In order to let loose, and against the wishes of whoever that
one person was with them (I’m bad with names), the McCords at college go
sledding.
On the next Madam Secretary, there
is a nuclear warhead that is causing problems of some sort. Of course, I’m a
bit out of order so I already blogged about that episode. Meanwhile, it appears
that I’m not entirely sure the order to post these episodes in, although I’ll
probably go back and forth between the two sets of episodes or I’ll just do the
older ones first. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
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