Presidential candidate John McCain stopped by Wilkes-Barre today, he was spending the day in PA then moving on so if you were looking to get a glimpse of him he’s probably already gone by now.
If you’re not a local and visiting the area for the first time Wilkes-Barre is about an hour North West of the Poconos and is close to Scranton so you’ll often hear Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Scranton is only about 45 minutes away though(at least for us, tack on another 15 minutes for each if you’re leaving from downtown Stroudsburg).
Scranton you say? Yes its that Scranton from the TV show The Office, home of Dunder-Mifflin. My family is big fans of the show but sadly I’ve only ever seen a couple of episodes, as funny as they are TV time is far and few between and either spent watching movies or mindless reality tv. Before you go busting on reality tv – I’ll agree its usually scripted and mindless – but that’s exactly why I watch it, no need to think or concentrate, who cares if you go get a snack and miss something. Come the fall when quality shows come back on then its a whole different story. I have to admit though I hated that as a kid – fall programming was what you always wanted to watch, but it ran on weeknights and of course it was homework & early to bed. Forget setting the VCR – literally I’d always forget to set the VCR or I would be unable to find a blank tape. Then summer time would come and there would be nothing good on…
Flash forward to today – our DVR (Digital Video Recorder), we have Blue Ridge Cable, that we got on a whim but I swear I can’t live without the thing now. No more scrambling for VCR tapes, no more reminding myself to record each week, just hit record episode and it will tape every single show for you throughout the season. Being able to pause live TV helps too so if you are actually interested in watching a show and someone walks in and starts a conversation or the phone rings you can pause it no problem, then unpause whenever you’re free and fast forward through the commercials to catch up. Its a luxury but for the $8.95 a month it costs is well well worth it.
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