oh, boy, i'm a...

"Oh, boy, I'm a deejay."
That had been Sam Beckett's response to finding himself in the body of Chick Howell at WOF,
the radio station in Peoria, Illinois.
It was 1959 and Ziggy had sent him to save this fledgling rock'n'roll-playing site from the capricious actions of a small-town politician.
This was season 2, episode 6,
of that time-travel show I love, "Quantum Leap"!
I had caught it on the 15th - yes, indeed, right after a lengthy texting with my ex, a former deejay.
Love those coincidences that reassure me of right place, right time!
Today, I caught it again, after an hour talking with Paul in California.
I'm so glad I made him laugh!
I was voicing my quarantine woes about "being so tired of doing all the cooking for every meal" - and he just burst out laughing!
That's a rarity for him, so I will treasure that!
(smile!)
We hadn't had plans to talk, it just happened.
I was considering a run to Home Depot for lawn debris bags, then a visit to Mama and Jean Marie, with perhaps picking up dinner from Jason's Deli.
That's most likely why I had led off with those home-cookin' blues.
(smile)
Anyway, by the time we were done, my inclination to go out was, too.
So, I flipped on the Element... and Comet tv had a "Quantum Leap" marathon going on!!!
When had it started and how much longer would it run?
(Get it? The racing reference? Had to have that pun!)
Well, I couldn't answer the first part of that, but I know the second part!
Sam will be leaping in and out of time, and people's lives, until 4 AM, with the last two episodes being the ones I saw on Friday...
and me getting the second chance to see the two I missed on Thursday.
Hallelujah!
Those will be s2, e16 and s2, e17...
again I say, hallelujah!
I had only caught the last few minutes of that second episode, enough to make me feel that I'd really lost out.
Then, PFS had offered up "The Incident", an intense urban drama that it'd shown just a few years ago, and which I chose not to watch again; it was simply too heavy for me.
All together, that made Thursday evening a dead loss for me.
How wonderful to have the opportunity to right that wrong!
i thank You, God!

And how wonderful to take this lull in the action to document the Quantum Leap episodes I've seen (or will soon see) by Beckett's catch phrases!
I had thought of making it a game, like in the past, but I simply don't have that quanta of time for leaping around in this post.
(smile!!!)

s1, e1
Oh, boy, I'm a pilot.

s1, e2
Oh, boy, I'm a catcher.

s1, e3
Oh, boy, I'm a professor.

s1, e4
Oh, boy, I'm a boxer.

s1, e5
Oh, boy, I'm a veterinarian.

s1, e6
Oh, boy, I'm a hitman.

s1, e7
Oh, boy, I'm driving Miss Daisy.

s1, e8
Oh, boy I'm a nerd.

s1, e9
Oh, boy, I'm Humphrey Bogart!

s2, e1
Oh, boy, I'm a cop.

s2, e2
Oh, Boy, I'm a stuntman.

s2, e3
Oh, boy, I'm a sailor.

s2, e4
Oh, boy, I'm a woman.

s2, e5
Oh, boy, I'm blind.

s2, e6
Oh, boy, I'm a deejay.

s2, e7
Oy, vey, I'm a rabbi.

s2, e8
Oh, boy, I'm retarded?

s2, e9
Oh, boy, I'm a lawyer.

s2, e10
Oh, boy, I'm in Don Quixote.

s2, e11
Oh, boy, I'm a ghost hunter.

s2, e12
Oh, boy, I'm in a fraternity.

s2, e13
Oh, boy, I'm the mom.

s2, e14
Oh, boy, I'm a teenager.

s2, e15
Oh, boy, I'm an FBI man.

s2, e16
Oh, boy, I'm an (American) Indian.

s2, e17
Oh, boy, I'm a mortician.

s2, e18
Oh, boy, I'm a pool shark.

s2, e19
Oh, boy, I'm an acrobat.

*****

I know, I know, how does he pull off that quick-change act?
How does he know what wrong he is there to make right?
Well, Admiral Al Calavicci, his colleague on the science project that started all this leaping around, appears as a hologram with a little hand-held computer, to fill in the gaps.
One of the amazing things about Al?
He's been married - and divorced - five times, so he's known women in different walks of life; he grew up in a foster home and was continually running away from there and into various jobs all around; and, due to his personal history and checkered past, he is an absolute treasure trove of information by his own rights.
Sounds like he'd be an interesting fellow to be around at a party...
but for kissin' and huggin', I'll take Sam,
any day, any afternoon, any night.
(smile)

But, since I can't have him in person, I'll settle for him virtually...
here's hoping for sweet dreams, tonight!