We had Chinese take out for dinner. Two Egg Rolls, Wonton Soup for 2, Beef & Broccoli with some Shrimp Fried Rice for Donna’s lunches this week.
Took the day off from work and laid out to help get over the yuck I got somewhere. Snagged a couple of major naps and now I starting to feel better. The body aches are now mostly gone and the fever appears to be history, but I now have a icky little cough. I took some Vicks 44 this morning and it helped, but this afternoon I took a tablespoon of some of Donna’s leftover prescription stuff that is laced with codeine. Big mistake, that stuff made me stupid.I set out to finish up tweaking and posting our vacation photos from the other week. I had 48 selected and only managed to 34 done. I uploaded them and managed to get captions on 8 or 9 before I couldn’t maintain the intense concentration required post pictures on the internet…
Couple of random thoughts after watching the FRS on TV three straight days;
a) the new style hats the big leaguers are wearing this year look like a truckers hat, you know the kind with a foam front and a mesh back.
b) The green shirts they wore on Saturday looked very elfish with the red long sleeve undershirts.
1) but I do like the green hats and may get one…
c) when you put a batting helmet on Willie Moe Pena it looks like he has to squeeze his head to get it in there.
While we are talking baseball and blogs: Curt Schilling‘s got one.
The end of the driveway is as far as I’ve been all day. A close second was I retrieved a load of laundry from the garage, but that nearly wore me out. I’ve taken at least four 1 to 1-1/2 hour naps. Baring a miracle cure over night I plan on spending tomorrow in the same manner while my co-workers toil away at the valve store.
The bad news is that while Donna has been an angel in taking care of me, this afternoon she started to get a little sore throat which is how this whole thing started for me.
When I blogged last night things looked grim for the Sox and they were trailing the Yankees 6-2 when they came to bat in the bottom of the eighth, but they scored 5 times to end up winning the game. In this afternoon’s contest they were back and forth until the FRS scored three in the bottom of the fourth and kept the lead until the end.
While I, on the other hand, if anything, got worse. The sore throat peaked this morning and is going away, but I’m in full blown (pun intended) running nose, watery eyes and body aches. I’m hitting the showers as soon as I’m done typing this and going to bed.
The 2007 Major League Baseball season has been in process for a couple of weeks now, but tonight is really opening day. The dreaded Yankees are in town for a three game set. I am apparently not the only one excited by this series of games this early in the season, tonight’s game is on ESPN, tomorrow’s is on Fox and Sunday night it’s ESPN again.
So far it looks like the Sox are playing like I feel, a little out of it. Woke up this morning with a sore throat and a runny nose. Of course the reason they are losing 5-3 in the seventh could be those ugly green uniforms they are wearing tonight (supposedly a Boston Celtic / Red Auerbach tribute.)
Or it could be some bad karma I caused with my little phone call prank on my boss the Yankee fan this morning. Thanks to XM Radio I sent him a voice mail from Big Papi, David Ortiz, telling him about MLB on XM and I customized it so David would call him a Red Sox fan.
Time is running out for US based independent web radio streams. From the savenetradio.org website:
On March 2, 2007 the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), which oversees sound recording royalties paid by Internet radio services, increased Internet radio’s royalty burden between 300 and 1200 percent and thereby jeopardized the industry?s future.
At the request of the Recording Industry Association of America, the CRB ignored the fact that Internet radio royalties were already double what satellite radio pays, and multiplied the royalties even further. The 2005 royalty rate was 7/100 of a penny per song streamed; the 2010 rate will be 19/100 of a penny per song streamed. And for small webcasters that were able to calculate royalties as a percentage of revenue in 2005 ? that option was quashed by the CRB, so small webcasters? royalties will grow exponentially!
These exorbitant rates go into effect on May 15 (retroactive to Jan 1, 2006!). Without Congressional action the majority of webcasters will go bankrupt and silent on this date. We need your help. Please take a moment to send a letter to your member of Congress to keep Net radio from being silenced.
Go to the Act Now! page on the Savenetradio.org and fill out the form to email your legislators and ask them to stop this huge rate increase on webcasters. Don’t know who your representatives are? Neither did I, but by filling out your address information you will get their names and a mugshot so you can recognize them on the street or CSPAN.
Princess Leia’s Red Sox Nation membership card came in the mail a day after Chewbacca’s. She’s not sure where she will put her bumper sticker yet, but right now she is leaning towards placing it on C3PO’s back just out of his reach in hopes of sending him into an infinite feedback loop of fastidiousness.
It is supposed to be a glorious spring weekend here and we are not exactly sure what to do with it:
Option #1, and the most unlikely, is to drive 250 miles to Columbus, GA and do one last BMW Ultimate Drive before they are entirely out of reach. (+) it sure is fun to drive BMWs. (–) 3 times a charm, but 4 is slightly obsessive. (–) it would mean another hotel room and another mediocre breakfast buffet.
Option #2, and slightly more probable, would be a drive of 125 miles to go to Beaufort, SC to see the Blue Angels. (+) air shows are cool. (+) there would be the chance to get a picture of the Post Office on the Marine Corp Air Station where the show is. (–) big crowds of people and we just left that party in NJ. (–) we really don’t want to go anywhere having been traveling the last two weekends. (+) a meal of crab cakes at Barbara Jean’s might be just the enticement to tip the scales towards going down there.
Option #3, and most likely, is dinner out in Augusta with friends on Friday and staying around the house. I really need to to clean all the pine pollen off the tables and floors on the screen porch. The furniture cushions need vacuuming too. It is spring and this is the best time to enjoy our meals, etc out there, but the porch needs some sprucing up first. And if we get restless we could always drive to Columbia on Sunday morning and take some Post Office pictures.