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Here’s a couple pictures of the snowstorm on Friday/Saturday:

Pretty exciting; we got about 10" or 12" I think.

Tonight after O’Reilly, I was flipping back down to the Seinfeld channel and came across Average Joe.  Apparently this was the final episode, and apparently I have a knack for coming upon these things at the last minute.  Which is perfectly fine with me, as judging from the previews they are by and large utter cruft.

But for some strange reason I started watching it, and actually liked it.  This one was sort of like Joe Millionaire except without the obnoxious commentation and without the hyper-dramatization -- in other words, pretty decent.  It was also backwards in that it was one girl picking amongst a bunch of guys, and instead of being millionaires they were "average joes" har har.  (Well, it turned out that one of the two last guys was very wealthy, though not via inheritance; he was one of the lucky ones who got (and stayed) rich through day-trading before the dot-com bubble burst.)

One thing that was interesting to me was that at one point, Adam and Melana are in a pool at some amazing desert resort, and Adam says "When people watch this, I bet every guy in the world is gonna wish he was me."  (Or something to that effect.)  I just thought it was interesting that he made reference to the audience like that, and they didn’t edit it out.  It’s almost like looking right into the camera.

(By the way, the photo of Melana at the top of the show’s website is hideous; she is actually very pretty.)

It was really sad when she picked Jason.  The end of Joe Millionaire was like, tense and stuff, but this was just really sad.  When she told Adam, he was all "you gotta follow your heart" and stuff -- totally being a "good sport" about it -- and it was sad because you knew that inside, he was upset.  (I think I liked Jason better, but still.)  Then Jason came out and gave him a hug, and Adam said that he was glad that it was someone like Jason who won.

I think I might have had more I wanted to say about the show, but I forget now.

Well moving along, during O’Reilly there was a commercial for some horse-related store, and there was this priceless quote: "Need something for the horse-lover on your Christmas list?"  Man, I almost fell over laughing at that one.

And it’s ridiculous how all the cell phone companies are trying to act like it was their idea to let you keep your cell number when you switch providers.  Because they’re just so gracious and well-intentioned and they just want what’s best for us, so they decided to let us keep our numbers.  Right.  As if the government didn’t just enact legislation forcing you all to comply because your former policies on the matter were absurd.

OK, I think that’s all for now.  Oh, do check out the new song.

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