It's hump day! However, I felt so exhausted that I decided to skip the gym tonight and relax. Besides, I need the occasional change of pace, so I will do kickboxing and Zumba tomorrow night.
Today's Newsday puzzle by Norma Steinberg is called "Outta Sight."
20A: Exotic vacations (FARAWAY PLACES). One of my co-workers is in Tahiti on vacation. I should only be so lucky. However, I am fortunate to be part of a postcard-exchange program called Postcrossing. Although I've received just 20 postcards, I feel like I'm living in other lands, as well as other sections of our country. I enjoy receiving snail mail, so the person who thought of the Postcrossing program is a genius!
38A: Fifth cousin, for instance (DISTANT RELATIVE). A couple of months ago, I received a Facebook friend request from a distant cousin who I hadn't seen since I was 16. I had good memories of her house in Ossining, so it was a pleasant surprise. While I'm a devout city dweller, she is living on a farm in Virginia with lots of turkeys and other assorted animals.
Speaking of distant relatives, we found out that Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, who have been married over 20 years, are distant cousins. This was discovered on the PBS program "Finding Your Roots." I watched this for the first time last Sunday and they explored Robert Downey, Jr.'s past. I enjoyed the program very much. Remember, Franklin and Eleanor Rooosevelt were distant cousins, too.
58A: Den accessory (REMOTE CONTROL). I can't even remember what life was like without a remote control! I know that tin a previous life, we only had the three major networks, Channel 5, Channel 9, Channel 11, and PBS. For my family, that all changed in 1976 when we got cable TV. We were the first family on our block!
From 1987 to 1990, MTV aired a show called "Remote Control." It was MTV's first non-musical program and also the first to feature spring-break episodes. I was such a fan that I even had a Nintendo game. Contestants would sit in lounge chairs and select one of nine channels (or categories) on a big screen TV. They would then need to answer questions related to that category. We were introduced to Adam Sandler and Colin Quinn on this classic show. Sadly, Ken Ober, the host, passed away in 2009. Why don't we watch a little clip from the very first episode?
This show lasted only four seasons while that train wreck known as "Jersey Shore" is still running? I don't get it!
That's all for this evening.
Till tomorrow. . . .
Signing off,
The Puzzlechick
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