I woke up to find that I have no Internet. What am I supposed to do now? What's going on in the world? I suppose that I shouldn't complain... in the four years I've had DSL this is only the second time it's gone down. But it does mess up my daily routine in a way that I'm not quite ready for. I wonder what's on television this morning?
Gah! I should have never looked! Morning television is crap! You know this is true when the most interesting thing on in the 100 channels I receive is Little House on the Prairie.
And speaking of Little House, what in the heck happened to that show? I was never a big fan... boring people in a boring place doing boring things in a boring time just doesn't appeal to me (Oh no! Laura lied to Ma and Pa! The humanity!). This morning I find out that things on the Prairie certainly have changed since I last bothered to watch all those years ago. Laura got married, her sister Mary is blind and married and running a school for blind children, somehow they have a brother named Albert (I thought they had a younger sister named Carrie?), and Nellie is married and no longer a bitch.
There were two episodes back-to-back, but there were from different seasons of the show which was confusing. I flicked back-and forth through the first episode, but watched the second. How could I not? Pa is living in the city(!) and his son(?) Albert is in a gang and addicted to morphine? Cool! It's like a really, really clean version of Trainspotting or something!
I've never been so relieved to go to work in my entire life. I hope my DSL is fixed tomorrow morning.
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From what I remember, I’m pretty sure Albert was adopted, or taken in. Laura married “Manly” (aka Almanzo Wilder) and Mary eventually married another blind person named Adam who was a teacher at the school for the blind. I should go back and read those books again.
I used to watch that show. It went for like ten years! I don’t remember much about the later years (although we saw half an epidose while we were over there recently), but I do vividly remember the school for the blind burning down.
And Laura stealing Nellie’s music box. Tut tut.
Gah! The school for the blind burned down?!? Wasn’t making her blind sad enough? What kind of sadistic monsters are the writers for that show? I just Googled it, and found out it ran for NINE seasons and had three specials (and they blew up the town in the last one!).
If only Laura were stealing the music box so that she could pawn it to her pimp for some crack and an abortion… THEN I would have watched! What is it about depravity that makes my voyeuristic nature take over an otherwise rational mind?