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I just wanted to say thanks to cchjd for recommending Breaking Bad. Good show. I’m only two episodes in (yeah, I know, I should run more) but I’m enjoying it greatly so far. It’s also rather long (it must have few or no commercials, given the run times) so I get an extra mile in.

I just got done with Frasier. That took me months because there are so many episodes. In fact, I’m not even sure I started that one this year. I feel like it was one of the better examples of the old vanguard sit-coms (3 cameras, studio audience/laugh track). But it still always felt a little too contrived, but not in the fun, obvious sort of way that Seinfeld was. In fact, Frasier, like almost every sit-com other than Seinfeld, made you feel that the outrageous situations were often just hashed together to enable one-liners, whereas with Seinfeld it was the other way around.

So I liked Frasier (enough to watch 11 full seasons of it, much from an elliptical machine) but I didn’t really like it, let alone love it. Nonetheless, it was better than staring at a wall while running in place.

I’m not sure what I’ll watch after my current project, since it’s only 8 episodes. I might take someone’s recommendation on some of the Adult Swim shows. I also may check out The Wire. I watched a few episodes and didn’t really care for it, but everyone I know is telling me how great it is. Can they really all be wrong? Maybe I should find out.

I’m thinking of turning the basement into a home gym, which will probably boost my TV-watching time, unless I can figure out how to play poker while doing bench presses. Strangely, I feel like I don’t watch much television, yet I can name at least 20 shows I’ve watched straight through. And I don’t know if I ever watch more than an hour in a day, and many days it’s zero.

Enough blogging about my boring life. But thanks to everyone whose recommendations made working out a little less soul sucking.

P.S., if you get the joke behind the title of this post, you spend too much time playing poker.