They wanted to seem cooler.

I assume just to annoy us.

oh, there was a whole thing about it. I believe that our general consensus was that it was crap, but whatever. i will call it SciFi until I die. or get lazy because SyFy has fewer letters.

I think we should refer to it as the Mansquito Channel.

They wanted more of an audience, so they figured they would add some non-sci-fi programming. Plus their executives are crack-addled wombats.

Mansquito Channel.

Or Anonymous Rex. That was a classic. Well, no. It was awful. But charmingly so.

I used to pronounce it Skiffy, but now I just look at it balefully. Perhaps it should be the Channel that Shall Not Be Named.

Kristin, that dress is lovely! Much ~ma for your Grandmother.

I think we should refer to it as the Mansquito Channel.

Mansquito Channel it is.

The whole ADD pausing thing? Very much shows up a point my therapist once made, ages ago. She said the great thing about the ADD mind is that it sees all the possibilities - the challenge is to figure out how to narrow all those possibilities down to a more manageable number. I sometimes pause in the middle of a line of reasoning to re-examine some of the options, and that can derail my end of a conversation.

My day at work was... interesting. There was bleeding, and also screaming. Oddly, the two were totally unrelated. One of the residents sometimes does not clot properly - so a teeny tiny little scratch can result in what seems like arterial, rhythmic spurting. Luckily today's incident was not that bad. But still, I'm a little tired of say, "No, no, please leave your bandage alone." The screaming lasted for a good hour, and was essentially a temper tantrum. So I have taken an aspirin/Tylenol/caffeine cocktail.

Well, whatever it's name, I watched Warehouse 13. It has potential. I liked how half the detector things were old sound gear. The silver Clear-Com box got a very audible "bwah!!" from me.

Thanks for the good thoughts for my gram. She's still in the hospital, but it looks like she's stable. They still think she had some kind of heart incident and have done a whole new series of tests that my mom will get more information about tomorrow. She's assuring me I don't have to come home, and I'm taking her at her word. I'm nervous that things will get worse while I'm on the ship in Alaska and unable to get home quickly, but we are in LA overnight a week from Saturday, so I can cancel the second cruise week and go home then if need be. Fingers crossed that she is fine and it all becomes moot.

The whole ADD pausing thing? Very much shows up a point my therapist once made, ages ago. She said the great thing about the ADD mind is that it sees all the possibilities - the challenge is to figure out how to narrow all those possibilities down to a more manageable number. I sometimes pause in the middle of a line of reasoning to re-examine some of the options, and that can derail my end of a conversation.

SO TRUE. Wow, I never thought about this before, but that is exactly what I'm constantly doing. I have to really watch it while I'm teaching, because I have had those moments when I completely lose track of where I was going because my mind has skittered down several other related paths in the meantime.

I used to pronounce it Skiffy, but now I just look at it balefully. Perhaps it should be the Channel that Shall Not Be Named.

I am Cass.

Sy Fy can be trademarked or copyrighted or whatever's applicable, and Sci Fi cannot. It's brand control.

Also, apparently illiterately moronic.