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1. Well, hmmm... Arizona and April are due to leave Grey's by the end of the year. (Or at the end of the 14th Season, yes, it's been on for 14 years...but Supernatural has been on for 13...)

I'm not upset about this. My least favorite characters were Arizona and April (mainly because I found them to be horribly written and insanely whiny). That said, April's story was starting to get interesting this season. It's actually one of the few stories that was getting interesting. Although her actions don't make a lot of since and feel sort of off.

In case this makes you want to give up on Grey's...not to fret, there's more television coming your way.

2. More TV Shows...

* Legion returns on April 3 to F/X at 10 PM

* The Crossing (brought to you by the producers of Lost, and the writers of The Event, and Surface) arrives on April 2 on ABC at 10PM. The description makes me think of a reverse take on The Gifted.

"47 people wash up on a beach in the Pacific Northwest claiming to be refugees from a war torn hell -- which America will become thanks to the rise of a superpowered population known as the Apex.
As the feds swoop in to interrogate the refugees, local sheriff Jude Ellis (Steve Zahn) continues his own search for answers. "

I don't know. It could be silly. And I'm not a fan of Steve Zahn.

* Siren on Freeform about a mysterious girl who turns up in a town known for its mermaid tales.

* Bryan Cranston's "The Dangerous Book for Boys" on Amazon.

* Alex, Inc -- a sitcom about well a guy who starts-up a podcast company.

* The Americans returns for a 6th Season. (I thought it was dead, but apparently not.) - March 28, on F/X.

3. There's a new book being touted by EW that seems sort of interesting...although not until you know what it is based on.

What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw by Leah Stewart

The story is about a red hot actor who is grappling with being kidnapped on a remote island while his ex grapples with dwindling fame.

So far not all that interesting, right?

Now..

It's is based loosely on two real life celebrity tales. The first, Charlie Outlaw character is based on Benedict Cumberbatch's real life car-jacking and kidnapping by six men in South Africa while filming a mini-series in 2004. And the other one, his ex-girlfriend, Josie, is loosely based on Buffy alum Sarah Michelle Geller. Apparently the author is a huge fan. In the book, Josie played a badass former cult-TV character whom we meet as she's figuring out how to make her next move. It's familiar by design.

Also a great selling point. Without that information the story isn't all that interesting.


4. Found yet another relative in Germany, this round either Bavaria or Bayern, Germany. Asked my mother about the research my Great-Aunt had done and my mother stated she never got very far. Went over there and was only able to get to her great-great grandfather on one side. Mainly because German records have been destroyed. If you have German ancestory, good luck tracing it back, unless of course you are related to someone famous. We were peasant farmers in my family.

5. About to give up on my minister's book "No Other Gods", mainly because I'm getting tired of being told there's something wrong with me if I don't embrace a plant-based diet. Hello? I'm allergic and/or sensitive to beans, legumes, tofu, wheat, barely, rye, and have issues with potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplant. And struggle with a sugar addiction. Where in the hell am I getting protein? If the Universe didn't want me to eat meat, it should have made me able to eat the other crap. Just saying.

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1. The only drawback to writing a story in long-hand first, is I can't always read my own handwriting. I have no idea what "Or hauduraue" is. It may be "Or handirance" -- nope makes no sense.For the most part it's legible, but it doesn't help that I can't spell and have a tendency to make up words or just scrawl them. Writing is a craft I'm constantly working at.

2. While The Black Panther lost to Pacific Rim Uprising...which finally dethroned it after almost six weeks in the top spot at the box office, The Black Panther is the top-grossing super-hero flick of all time.

3. Well, hmmm...I've managed to trace my ancestory back to 1675 Virigina when it was a British Colony with a Jerima Bakson, who died at the age of 25 in childbirth. And to the 1745 in Germany, my uncle managed to get my father's side to open up on Germany by doing the test. Also have an ancestor who lived 100 years, female, in England.

My father and I have both done the DNA test. So we'll see what happens with that.

We go back a ways, but then I'd expect we all do...since we didn't just pop up here by aliens, right?