Happy Groundhog Day!

Once again, that time of year has rolled around again.

Yes, folks, it's Groundhog Day!

Opinions seem to be divided about whether the groundhog saw his shadow in my area. When I first woke up, it was overcast here, so it would have been impossible to see a shadow. But then it cleared up and it's been sunny all day.

In Pennsylvania, they have happier news. Punxutawney Phil did not see his shadow, so it's (theoretically) going to be an easy balance of Winter. Let's hope he's right. We got enough snow last year where I live for the next five years, so we deserve it.

In Atlanta, their local groundhog agrees with Phil, so it's probably going to be an early Spring both North and South of here.

For those of you who want to celebrate it with a movie, one of the Encore channels is playing Groundhog Day all day to day, over and over and over again, kind of like in the movie.

In old Gaelic folklore, it's also St. Brigid's Day, also known as Candlemas and Imbolc, which may have been a precursor to Groundhog Day.

 Are you completely bored with this yet?

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I've been knitting like a crazy person on some Christmas presents for some people I won't see until next week. Unfortunately, that means that I can't show you pictures and spoil the surprise.

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In other TV news, the second of the two Human Target episodes that we missed a couple of weeks ago will be on tonight! The first of the two was repeated on Monday along with a new Chuck. If you have a TiVo and don't want to miss Human Target, I suggest that you program a season pass for it. Fox seems to be persecuting it the way it did Firefly!

And although NBC said they were going to show a new Castle on Monday, they didn't and instead showed a rerun. Shame on you, NBC!

Back on the subject of tonight, there will be a rerun of Supernatural, and it will be on at the same time as Human Target, natch! You didn't think that as much as the networks seem to hate Wednesday, that they'd conveniently put the good things on a different times, did you?

Speaking of TV, if you live in the Northern Virginia area and you'd like to get a TiVo HD, leave a comment. I have one for sale for a limited time for a low, low price and a 5 month contract for service (it won't work without the service). More details are available to commenters. I won't bore you with them here.

I'm still having lots of problems with internet, so there still won't be a lot of posts until I can get that ironed out. Sorry, but it's such a fight to get something up.

Have a fabulous week, and I wish no more snow to all the people who have already gotten too much!

Happy Groundhog Day/Candlemas/Imbolc/St. Bridget's Day!

I know, that's a lot to pile onto one little day of the year, but there it is.

I put up links about Groundhog Day, Candlemas and Imbolc yesterday. If you missed them, go back and check on them.

First of all, there were mixed results about Groundhog Day. Read about them here.

And, although I didn't have a handy groundhog to prognosticate, if one had been around, they would have seen their shadow up until about 1:30, when the sun went behind the ever-present clouds, and after that, he would not have seen a shadow. Part of the reason for that is that we're expecting snow flurries (or a winter storm, depending on which source you listen to) tonight and tomorrow morning. I'm hoping for flurries. Decorative, fun, and not a bother.

So, no good, solid answers here. But I'm still knitting winter gear, so I'll be ready in case of the worst.

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It's also Saint Bridget's Day! The Wikipedia entry for her says that it was yesterday, but I've seen it given as the second of February in many places. There's more information about her here, and here.

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Lost is back tonight! There's an hour of bringing-you-up-to-date, followed by the first two hours of the new series, and the beginning of the last season!

I just can't tell you how excited I am about this!

And there's really nothing else worth watching this evening. Well, except Groundhog Day, which is on Bravo and just started.

Have a fun evening!

Welcome to February!

The year just started and January is over already!

Over at Crazy Aunt Purl's blog, she's reporting in on how well her New Year's resolutions are going.

I don't want to talk about mine.

You can tell it's not going well. But I plan to suck it up and get moving on them.

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Tonight, we have new episodes of: Chuck, Heroes and Castle!

Tomorrow night, we have the return of new episodes of Lost!

Get Lost again!

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I finally figured out how/why my DVR is erasing programs that I don't want to part with.

I watched two episodes of Supernatural yesterday. One was a continuation of the other, so after watching the first part, I went on to watch the second part without erasing the first (in case I wanted to check back on something in the first one). When I was done with them, I erased the second one right after watching it, went back to the list of programs, highlighted the first one, and erased it. When I went back to the list of shows, the first episode of Supernatural was still there, but Lost (from last week, which I hadn't watched all of) was gone.

In other words, when I highlight something and choose it, sometimes it actually opens something that was NOT highlighted. I think (because a program was highlighted and I chose it) that that's what I got, but it has actually opened something else.

Just another malfunction of this piece of junk (aka a DVR) from Comcast, and another reason to get TiVo! I'll have money on Wednesday, and will be ordering my TiVo then, and I can't wait, believe me.

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To get you into the spirit, and brush up on your lore, here's some information about Groundhog Day, which is, of course, tomorrow!

Groundhog Day is also know as Candlemas, and the pagans call if Imbolc. Study up and impress your friends tomorrow!

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I keep talking about lots of stuff to do today, and wind up putting it off, but I really do have a lot to do, so I'm going to keep this short.

Happy February, everybody!