belated blog.....

ok, so.....my gentle readers should recall that gov ernie decreed that no blogs shall be written nor read nor contemplated on work time....not even on breaks nor lunch....and so if a blog occurs to me on my way to work, or at work...i must do my best to keep it in my mind until reach my hallway p.c. (under my jane austen action-figure's watchful eye...)...unless i enter some notes into my pda to remind me....and so this evening i chanced to read some notes about a trip to work awhile back.....i had taken a short detour...in hopes of missing the toliver traffic....and passed by a neighborhood of ranch/bungalow type homes.....a street where i have no memories of visiting/dropping off a child....and in this short traverse a large moving bit of plasma caught my eye......a wall-size flatscreen...with matt lauer visible from the road.....omg.....the notion that matt lauer can be recognized by passing traffic if the screen is large enough- just too funny...for the record...the television screen appeared to take up an entire wall of this 'living room'.......and was entirely visible given that the room appeared to have either no draperies, or they were drawn so severely that they were not visible.....the across-the-street-neighbors could comprehend entire movies if they were deaf and could read lips......but i digress from the early morning visage of a television personality.....my immediate impression was that the tv was on for background sound.....nobody could be seen actually watching.....a bit of over-kill, dontcha think......multiple square feet of matt just for the hearing pleasure?......i suppose this memory is even more ironic given that the c-dubs turned off their tv at 7:15 pm, when it became clear that there was nothing on worth our time......and everybody under htis roof is either reading or typing......and the peaceful lack of background noise is so pleasant to my ears........