Friday, January 15, 2010

Dog Days of Winter

If most of your TV - viewing is sports related, the latter part of January is the pits. The Bowl games are over, the Pros are dwindling down to Saturday and Sunday only. Super Bowl DXIIV will be just a memory in a short time. Even non-sports TV is a barren wasteland. Sigh.

Yes, college basketball is going on, but apart from your favorite team it really doesn't get interesting until later. Same for pro basketball. Dog days, indeed.

So in times like these, we fall back on the tried and true. Break out the Lord of the Rings DVDs. We're too old for marathons, so it's one disk a night for the old folks. LOTR gets us through 6 week-night evenings; pro football gets us through the weekend. Sweet.

4 comments:

Rob said...

I would think you mean January only, except your mention the Super Bowl, which happens in February, so if you can make it until then, you can survive a few more days until the Olympics. Set the DVR and then you can double the time it takes to watch it by catching up on what you missed during your naps. That puts you into March Madness. You can do it!

pat said...

You could play Yahtzee.

Barbara said...

Or Stadium Checkers. Seem to remember Mom and Pops used that game a lot.

Bob said...

Yes, but Mom always cheated at Stadium Checkers - or at least gave the appearance she did!