Whoa!

Today is 07 07 (08). Another example of those funky number things that haunt and/or follow me everywhere.

Went to bed last night at the stroke of 11:11. I was barbecuing at 4:44 yesterday afternoon. What is it with me and these coincidental numbers??

I need to start looking around – Rod Serling may be narrating somewhere close by…

So, last night we tuned in to Canada’s reality show: “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria”. It was the performance show, which is followed tonight by the elimination round. In a bit of a curveball, TWO potential Maria’s will get eliminated on the show later today.

So, is this show about Italian women named Maria? And are the "problems" solved in Sopranos-like style? Ha! Not at all. The show is documenting the search for the next Maria Von Trapp, or Trap, my apologies for mangling the spelling of that Sound Of Music character. This is for the Canadian revival of that musical, fronted or produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber no less. Or Weber, again my apologies if I have mangled that spelling as well. I suppose I could just surf The Google and find out for sure. There has to be some sort of reliable online resource to do something like that…

Anyhow, my point if there really ever was one, is that we are watching a reality competition show. That is how low things have sunk here in the Such Is Life household. Thanks to summer break scheduling, we are now acting like every other viewer in North America, as we glue ourselves to a sofa, and root for people that will skyrocket to obscurity after weekly exposure on a talent competition TV show.

Maybe it’s time to dust off that old Parcheesi board game.

Or Parchesi, if I’ve mangled the spelling of that as well…

Chow for now!