Change is?

I came home Monday after work. Did my usual routine, took Dogger out, fed Dogger, fed Kitty, made my lunch for Tuesday, cleaned out Kitty’s box, picked out my Tuesday wear to work clothes and deposited Dogger in the back yard.

That is a lot to get done two minutes after you walk in the door. But I do it everyday so that I don’t have to do it later when I want to do it even less. Any way. I finally get to sit down. I am going to watch the third episode of Angel season 1. I finally sit down and turn on the TV and settle in to watch Angel - if it turns out that the episode is as dumb the 15th time around as it was the 14th time around, I can make the adjustment and I can watch Crafters Coast to Coast instead. I like those shows, shut up.

Anyway. Angel is not on. Crafters is not on. This is not right.

Last week Angel wasn’t on because of Golf. I hate golf – Monday there was no golf but there was Charmed. Ick. I’m so over Charmed. I go to the waiting arms of Crafters and find some random show I’ve never heard of instead, and now I’m getting annoyed.

Angel wasn’t the best show ever but they had just started over and I like the first season!, again, shut up. In the past when Angel failed me, I could flip over and watch felted hat projects and polymer clay art - but removing both shows? simultaneously? Gawd! I would have liked some kind of warning.

I knew that TNT was going to start airing Alias reruns, but I had thought they were going to take off one of the 134 hours of Law and Order reruns they air every day, I could live with that. I don’t watch as much Law and Order as I used to and I don’t watch Alias at all. This programming change did not need to impact me, and yet they go and replace the one hour of Angel I watch with reruns with, ack gag, two hours of Charmed?!

I don’t care what the programming wizards at TNT think is best, I want my vampire back! And as for HGTV, how many infomercials do they need to air? I mean really! Isn’t an hour of I Want That! a day adequate to feed their views lust for new and improved pot scrubbers? and I understand that they as a network can only run so many Real Estate themed shows before they morph into the Play Boy Channel of Real Estate porn, but really, another show extolling the virtues of some random companies 2005 line of night lights? Come on! I need to see more painted chair designs and table top glass blowing and felting! We all need to know more about felting!

Neither show is completely off either networks line up. TNT still runs a couple of hours of Angel a day, in the middle of the night and Crafters is still somewhere on the schedule at HGTV – but if I want to watch them I’ll have to set the VCR to tape them and that just seems pathetic. I have no problem at all zoning out in front of the TV while they are on but I have deep reservations about turning either into something I go out of my way to tape. Crafters Coast To Coast is not appointment TV and as far as Angel goes, to my deep shame, I do think I have all the Angels on tape from back when the show was still on the air and I could in theory dig those out… but ew. I am not that pathetic. I can just suck it up and hope Bones stays on the air and I can get my Angel fix that way. ( I hate FAUX for canceling Head Cases)

I’m still annoyed though. Is September 26 some kind of network national holiday? Did I miss a memo or something? I blame George Bush.