I am sooo sick of taping As the World Turns I could vomit. As many of you may or may not know, As the World Turns (or ATWT for short) is ending. The last episode is Friday. And I am happy. I've been taping just about every episode for the last week or so at 1pm sharp. Well, Monday was an exception. Since the US Open had a rain delay, KOIN, our local CBS affiliate, rescheduled it for 1:39am yesterday. But, now the show is in its final week, and once Friday comes, since Salem is full of state workers (it's the capital of Oregon) and there's a furlough day that happens to be when the final episode airs, my mom and sister are going to watch the final episode at my sister's while I tape it at my house. My grandmother (she passed away a few years ago), she was the one that started my mom and ultimately my sister on watching ATWT. I have a whole bunch of tapes from the '90s of it. (I even have a few episodes from 1984!) And it's sad that she won't get to see the final episode because she watched the first one. Yep, she was a fan from day one. Well, anyway, I've never watched soap operas (I'm a GUY). I tried watching the short-lived NBC soap opera (anyone remember "Passions"?) but it didn't make any sense for me. And it doesn't make any sense for me to start watching them now because it seems like they're all going away (The Guiding Light got axed, too.) I read somewhere and I'm not sure where, that CBS is replacing ATWT with a The View-type show. But I doubt it would last 54 years. RIP ATWT.