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1. I've managed to trace my maternal grandmother's line back 1568 Scotland. At the moment she's winning in the ancestry family tree game. Which is interesting and highly entertaining. I keep trying to see how far back I can go. Did run into a rather weird wrinkle...apparently the fourth or fifth grandmother back on my father's paternal line is the one who gifted my family with our last name. Because her son's last name was not any of her husband's last names. It was her surname or Christian name, whatever you want to call it. This is back in 1700 Gloucester, England. She also got around. She starts around London and ends up somewhere north of Manchester.

The trick or goal of the game is basically to see how far back you can trace your family. I managed to get to the 1500s on one side and 1600s on another. The rest are stuck somewhere in the 1700s and 1800s. I want to see if I can make it back to the 1400s, I doubt it, they kept horrible records back then and I'm pretty certain I'm descended from either peasants or a merchant class at most.

2. Television round-up.

Been going through DVR saved television shows. And I desperately needed to. I had 87 hours of television saved. I didn't know Optimum would save 87 hours? Apparently it does. Time Warner now Spectrum used to delete them after the 50 mark.

Anyhow, I ended up deleting a lot of shows without watching them. Too many tv shows, too little time. If it doesn't grab me? It's gone.

The cancelled or rather, deleted television shows that I did not watch list:
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Then I watched:

* Grey's Anatomy

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* 9-1-1

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* Supernatural

This is one of those shows that you can just jump in and out of -- randomly, without much difficulty.
It has three main male leads, everyone else is just...well...guest stars. I also tend to like their stand-a-lone episodes better. Supernatural has that in common with X-Files, they are the only shows on television that I prefer to watch the stand-a-lone episodic shows to the serialized episodes. It's weird, but there it is.

This one was a rather comedic homage to Scooby Doo, Where Are You. Even riffing off an actual episode of the series -- the titular "A Night of Frights" in a haunted house. It parodied and played homage to Scooby at the same time. And animated everyone.

Dean is such a doofus in these episodes.

But I found it funny in places -- mainly because I watched Scooby Doo, Where Are You when I was a little kid.

* Deception

Not great, but better than most television series of this sort. Actually it's one of the few new television shows I've found to be entertaining and somewhat different. Reminds me a little bit of Leverage and a little of Bones (except I like everyone more here than on Bones. Not a Emily Deschanel or David Boreanze fan, hence the reason I never got into Bones). They go into detail on how the illusion or trick is done -- much like Leverage did.

I also find the characters and actors likable.

Will I stick with it, will it survive? Who knows.

* Alex, Inc

The only new sitcom that I made it through. This means nothing. It's not bad. The lead is as charming and witty as he was in Scrubs. The concept is a bit weird. But it may work. Guy quits his job to become a professional podcaster, and dips into the 401 to do it. Much chaos ensues. Best scene? His son's magic act at school.

* Lucifer
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