I don't know why but I've become such a glutton of TV marathons. I didn't think much about it until the latest one, after which I felt guilty for allowing this excess to even minutely alter my behavior. A basic tenet of addiction, right? I blame it all on the lumberjacks.
Watching Ana Ivanovic win her first slam event at The French Open Saturday morning was nice, then again watching Ana Ivanovic doing anything is ...well, not so difficult. I flipped over to History HD after that for some inane background noise as I set about to conquer the rest of Saturday.
Ax Men. This should be boring enough to drive me out of the house on a sunny warm Saturday right? The plan was to clean the place up a bit, hit the pool, t
he mall, then maybe play some blackjack. Pretty casual yes, but the makings of a great day because of it. Wrong. I guess I must have looked up at the TV one too many times, I soon found myself cleaning only during commercials, pausing and rewinding, setting the DVR to catch the later episodes. This is ridiculous. I actually set the goal of leaving the house at the end of an episode, a goal I reset with the start of a new episode. Even though I had the DVR set to record all of them.This show chronicles a few lumber operations in Oregon in reality show form. There isn't anything particularly awe inspiring about the characters. In fact, you could seriously question anybody who would aspire to be a logger. The mortality rate is high, the education level is low. Maybe that was the attraction. I read a forum post where somebody had sarcastically stated they should make a reality show about hemp growers, but nobody would lose a hand or get crushed by a log. Nobody would watch either. As I write this History HD is running the Ice Road Truckers marathon. I'm not watching, I'm afraid I'm turning into this millenniums crack-head, the reality show addict.
Now if they would ever offer an Ana Ivanovic marathon....
