While I wasn't blogging, I went on a betting win streak. I should end this betting season up almost a grand (unless something goes wrong during the NBA playoffs.) I don't bet on baseball and hockey so this will probably be it until football season starts up. Until then, my gambling will be just the passing game of poker and the stock market.

Sadly, it also seems like it is nearing the end of my TV watching season as well. No new shows have caught my interest. I still am a big fan of Castle and 30 Rock (although it's taken a step back this season) but other than that, there's nothing. Justified started off well but the more episodes that pass, the more I think that they should have just made it into a movie. How to Make It In America was one of the most pointless shows I've ever seen in my life. It was two people slacking off, complaining as they have zero idea of how to make it in their desired field, and then getting lucky at the end. It's not funny. It's not interesting. It's only ten or so episodes and I gave up before this season was even over.

Gossip Girl, The Mentalist, and Leverage battle it out for the laziest writing awards with one show (Gossip Girl) being laughably formulaic and the other two never really having their cunning stars actually do anything, they just always just end up with the solution. Those shows are like the scene in Mission Impossible 3 in which Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) explains how impossible breaking into a place will be... and then it cuts to them escaping. They build up this amazing break in scene and then don't show it. The Mentalist also commits the most typical sin of TV crime shows; the inexplicable confession. One reason I liked Law and Order was that if often showed what it took to break a suspect down. In The Mentalist or in the latest CSI, people just get shown one piece of evidence and then decide to confess. Yes, I know the person breaking makes for a better resolution but it always rings out as false to me. Granted, The Mentalist and CSI are super-popular shows so I shouldn't get hung up on it in my own writing but, still, it annoys me as a viewer.

OK, I'm just rambling but I'm trying to get into a habit of blogging every morning and sometimes it means you'll have to deal with pointless posts like this one.