Been having some sleep issues lately, as you'd be able to tell by the timestamp of this post. It's not really stress-related, at least not obviously, but it may just be my frustration with a few things, my reactions to those frustrations, and the guilt I have with those reactions.
When I started to write this, I had more detail in mind, but getting sidetracked into updating Wordpress and a few other things the inspiration has simmered. I'm going to try to sleep now – if it doesn't work, I'll go into more detail.

I feel the need to plug again.

In an effort to keep the series running, the second installment of the “Adult’s Guide to Preschool TV” is up on PopBunker. I hit on the Disney Channel on this one (specifically “Playhouse Disney”, as Disney labels its Preschool shows.)

I had a little less fun writing this one than I did on the Nick Jr. one. I don’t know if I was just more inspired on the Nick Jr. piece, or if it was because I was getting back into writing in the first one and the second one just seemed “necessary”, but it just kind of left me with an “I’m finished” feeling instead of being pleased. Maybe I’ll get some good feedback on it and I’ll feel a little better.

Third installment will come around eventually, but I might try a differently themed article for my next PopBunker post, just so I don’t feel locked in. Figure that with the preschool series I can only go in two directions – PBS Kids stuff (most of which is pretty good and not that easy to make fun of) or picking various programs that I haven’t mentioned in an effort to wrap it up. The latter is more likely, since there are some ripe targets out there (one of which probably deserves its own post) and it works better to wrap up the series.

Not that a great deal of you actually still come to the site, but for those of you who do, I’ve written an article for PopBunker.net called “The Adults Guide to Preschool TV: Nick Jr“. As the title implies, it’ll be part of a series – I’ll touch on Disney Channel as well, along with a PBS one and possibly a fourth covering those that I missed in the previous three.

So check it out or something.

One of the things that keeps me going when I’m most stressed about “the situation” is that as much as I might think things are bad, there are people who are in worse shape than I am.  Sometimes I need to stretch and think of people in war-torn villages in the Middle East or the whole “starving children in Africa” thing, but it’s a lot more “comforting” (not really the best word – I’ll see if I can come up with a better one by the end of the post) when it happens to actual humans around you that you identify with.

One of my friends at work recently received her W-2 form and found out that for the past year or so, our company has taken out zero in state and federal taxes, leaving her high and dry when April 15th comes around, whereas she might have been thinking about a refund, now she’s trying to figure out how to pay more.  A quick check of my w-2 saw a tiny amount in my federal withholding, however that’s attributed to the litter I have at home, and that state taxes were still being taken out in a happy-go-lucky manner.

So once again, could be worse.

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