Something I’m been getting a lot of enjoyment out of lately, is watching the old “Emergency!” series on the netflix download. Even thought the graphics, and sets can be a little hokey, not to mention the liberal used of stock footage, the show was really well written, and I find enjoyable.
As first, when I started watching it, I’ll admit I felt silly. I’m watching a show made in the 70s. Hell, I was 5 or 6 when it went off the air, but this didn’t stop me enjoying the show. This got me thinking. Are TV shows better from the 70 to 80s better then the shows that are now? In some respects, yes I think they are. We are now living in an era of 400 channels, but 95% of the TV is on, is crap. Every once in a while you find a gem, but the highest rated shows are ones about finding the next person to turn into a crappy music star, or if someone can live eating coconuts, termites, and sushi for 39 days.
Of the “traditional” script driven TV shows, I only watch 4. (Boston Legal, the new Battlestar Galactica, Rescue me, and the Bill Engvall show) Pretty everything else is crap. Outside of that I watch a lot of Speed Channel, and Food Network, and I will admit I do watch the show with the coconuts.
The odd thing is I watch more TV now then I did 15 years ago. Granted, 15 years ago, I was a AD & D playing computer geek, so I hardly had time for TV. I missed the Seinfield and Friends era (Thank god) of TV. For the most part the gaming days appear to be behind me, and my choosing vocation is computers, so I don’t do as much with them when I get home that I used to.
Now my Question to you is this. What programs from your child hood (or even older) that you still enjoy watching

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Don't you get this feeling after filling your gas tank?

I found this at www.simthunder.com, but other then that I don't know the source.

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1) This is a quote from the Toledo Blade in an store regarding TARTA's take over or TARPS today.

Larry Chasteen, a TARTA trustee who is the AFL-CIO community services labor liaison at United Way of Toledo, warned that the transit authority could lose local unions' support for future levies if the transit union's members are left out in the cold. "Injury to one union is injury to all unions. That's the motto in this town," he said

2) A propose law that would require businesses over 25 employees to give there Employee's 7 sick days. In a recent poll, roughly 70% of Ohio would vote for it. This shows you the short term/sellfishness of this state. Now.. I personally have a pet peeve about people calling off work for reasons other then what I considered valid (Valid reasons would be personal illness, family illness, and/or vehicle/house issues. FMLA is really a sore spot with me. I have worked (and a result I had bust my ass to cover for them) by countless number of people that have abuses FMLA for hang overs/ cocaine induced migraines/attend a party/laziness. (FMLA doesn't need to go away, but it needs revised majorly) This proposal will only give those same people another way to abuse this system. Personally if I owned a business looking to relocate, I would avoid Ohio like the plaque, and If I was currently located in Ohio, I would searously consider moving to another, more business friendly state.

This is f*&ing nuts.

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I just found out today.. Sonic Driving is coming to Toledo!!. (Leave it to me to be happy about something related to food). According to the local paper, they are going to open up the First unit in the area Late August, in Rossford. This is a place that while traveling, we visit at least once, if we come across it. They blow all the other Fast food places out of the water. Looks like only a couple of months now :)

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I had a interesting realizations the other day. To be honest.. I don't remember what caused it, or why it came around. To set this up.. when I was growing up, my mom liked to listing to the "Oldies" station on the radio.actually it wasn't an "Oldies" station, but more of a 2 hour radio show that came on, on one of the AM stations. I doubt I was even 10 or I just had turned 10..but not much older. The other day, I was listing to something Early Huey Lewis and the News on my IPOD, then it dawned on me. The tracks I was listing to, was the same age, if not older, then the music that my mom listed to at the time I was 10 years old. Wow..i can remember thinking "wow..this stuff is old" back then when my mom listed to it, but now when I list ion to stuff from the 80s, I think. I was in X grade when this came out and don't think about it was being old. It just shows how your prospective on things change. Back to, 10 years all a life time, and anything over that was ancient. Now..10 years is, just a milestone on the calender. Funny thing is I don't feel old. Maybe it's because I've change growing up (No kidding) or that fact that Christy and I don't have kids (Not necessarily a bad thing), or the fact that most of our friends average 5 to 10 years older then us. Yes.. i do have a "real" job.. and we do own a nice house.. but I don't feel old. Heck, part of me, I stills wants to break out in "I'm a toys-r- us" kid from time to time. I guess age is relative.

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