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Day 165: ANW

I totally thought I posted this lastnight, but I am perpetually tired lately. I doubt that it is in any way due to my steady diet of dark chocolate chips.

My gratitude yesterday was for the NBC show American Ninja Warrior! We don't have cable or Dish or Netflix or Amazon prime. If you can't watch it on antenna, we don't watch it. We get the major networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX), CW, 4 PBSs, and a couple of old movie/rerun channels. Normally those provide more TV "entertainment" than we need. We mostly watch PBS - lookin' at you PBS Kids and The Roosevelts.

I can barely stand to let my kids watch any TV these days. The commercials are more sexualized and violent than the shows that used to be on when I was younger, I think. One thing we can all agree on, though, is American Ninja Warrior. The kids love it. The spouse loves it. I love it. The boys are always inspired to create ninja warrior courses downstairs using the slide, the trampoline, an extra mattress and whatever else they can find. I love that it's non-controversial, active, and just fun to watch. Yay for summer TV! If the boys are going to be up until 9 anyway, we might as well be chilling out watching something decent.

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