All this time off.....

I have been "working" since I was 15 yrs. old and can't remember having this many days off since I retired from the Navy! I am enjoying the time I get to spend with my wife and getting things done around the house. Up until last week I was doing 20 hr. days working 2 jobs. Getting laid off from the aircraft mechanic job was a blessing.....it allowed me to focus on the job teaching at a local college. I really do love it!

There are some "downsides" to having free time. I didn't watch much daytime tv before. Heck didn't watch much tv anyway unless it was sports or political stuff on Fox news. Gotta love Beck! And if tiddlywinks was a pro sport I would probably watch it too! The controller is not glued to my hand, so I pretty much let my wife handle the channel selection most of the day. That's where my intolerance comes in. Not with her but with the lunacy that is broadcast on the screen nowadays!

First and foremost, what happened to my MTV/VH1!? I think that someone should sue the owners for false advertising! There is NO music on it so change the name to BTV (Brainless TV), DATV (Dumb Ass TV) or AYKMTV (Are You Kidding Me TV)! Where do they get these rejects from? Obviously the parents of the knuckleheads on these shows didn't beat them enough when they were children. I can only handle so much whining from the kids on "My Spoiled Ass Sweet 16" to the meat head attitudes of the "I Don't Have a Job But I Live at the Jersey Shore" idiots with the real life character of "Miss Piggy" thinking she is the shit. No wonder the guys on the show are drunk all the time. Have you been to the Jersey shore? Not much to brag about.

Then there are a group of "hootches" who think because they married, slept with or are trying to sleep with pro basketball players, should be followed around with cameras and are entitled to act like they are still in the hood. Get a grip on reality, if it wasn't for the fact that you have fake boobs and were quick to jump in bed with the guy, you would still be working at the local BK trying to figure out the difference between onion rings and french fries on the cash register.

There is a glimmer of hope for those of us who live in the "real" world. I caught a show I actually can stomach for more than 10 minutes....."Tough Love"! The host Steve Ward is my hero of "drivel" tv! I love it when he gets pissed and "tells it like it is" to these people who wish to complain about their dating lives and there inability to find someone to fit their unreal expectations of a mate. Come on....if you have the attitude that you deserve the world and have nothing of value to add to the relationship...you are going to be the old cat lady at the end of the street. Collagen lip, saline bags that are bigger than a beach ball and the ability to empty a wallet faster than the IRS doesn't get you that far in your love life. And the pinhead guys they have on the show don't get a free pass. Pull up your pants, get a real job and stop expecting your future mate to look like this months "Playmate of the Month" when you look like a reject from the steroid hall of fame.

Cutting the grass, cleaning the garage and waxing the cars looks better every minute!