Month: April 2010

Stolen Thunder

Because it is Patriot’s Day the FRS game started at 11:05 AM this morning. By 11:08 they were losing by one run. At the end of the third inning they were trailing by eight.

I had an idea for tonight’s post, but before I starting writing I did my usual check of select links from the sidebar and there it was in the second panel of today’s Soxaholic, I’m not the only one thinking it.

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The Dead & The Wounded

The the past week or so, maybe longer, the wheel on mouse of the desktop PC was acting up. When you scrolled down it would jump and jitter, sometimes huge chunks of pages. Scrolling up it was fine…so Saturday we went to Staples and bought a new mouse. We opted for a corded mouse for a couple of reasons, its eco-friendly (no dead batteries filling the landfills) and cheap at twenty bucks. As a bonus it had a PS2 adapter which I used so as to free up a USB port and now I don’t have to crawl under the desk and swap out the cables for the web cam or scanner depending on which one I need at the moment.

Today while sitting on the screened porch listening to the FRS getting their hats handed to them 7-1 by the Tampa Devil Rays the cordless mouse on the laptop quit working. 6 weeks and kaput. The cute little receiver which barely sticks out of the USB port was HOT to the touch. Just to be sure I swapped the AA battery out of the mouse with a different one, I tried the receiver part in another port on the laptop (I had to pull it out with a pair of pliers it was so hot) and tried it on the desktop PC and it still didn’t work. Guess I’m going back to Staples tomorrow.

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At The Car Wash

Last night we cleaned house, the outside anyway. I blew off the roof and deck, Donna mowed the front and back yards and I used the blower to clean our driveway.

When we got home tonight you could barely tell I had cleaned the driveway, enough oak pollen clusters had fallen to leave a sparse coating the whole front yard. Oh, well, I was still going to wash the car, had to because the MMC has a breakfast event tomorrow and we couldn’t very well show up in the pigsty the Emperor was. Plus I have that awning-carport thing that will at least keep the stuff off the car *while* I’m washing it.

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Dirty Car

The Emperor is filthy. Tree sap from parking in the wrong spot somewhere, pine pollen, dead bugs and mud from an aborted geocache attempt cover the exterior. The inside isn’t much better, pine pollen there too, plenty of dirt and debris in the mats, plus some stray M & M Minis under the seats.

I need to wait though and get the driveway cleaned off first. Adding water to it’s current coating of pine pollen (surprise), oak pollen clusters and dogwood blossom petals would create an awful soup.

I need to wait on cleaning the driveway until I blow off the roof, which is covered in, well, you can guess.

Ahhh, spring.

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The Media Marketing Has Really Kicked In

While channel surfing this evening I flipped through 3 straight stations that were playing Iron Man 2 commercials. One of which was actually a car ad (admittedly, I think if Iron Man were a Transformer he probably would change into an Audi R8 V10 convertible.)

As much as I loved the first movie and the trailers look good for number 2, they do look a little over the top in places. I am starting to get the feeling this franchise might be going the way of TDPM.

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HD On Cable

Back in August a bolt of lightning fried our tube TV so we bought a one of those new fangled flat screens. I let it find all the channels and was happy as a clam. Then 3 weeks later I had to reset the TV and when I ran the channel find function this time I let it look for digital channels. It found some, the Music Choice channels that came with the digital package, nothing with a picture though.

I was home sick with some flu stuff today and thought I would tune into Soundscapes, the New Age Music Choice channel to help in starting a nap while on the couch. It wasn’t there. I remember wondering if the cable company knew that folks with digital TV were getting that music for free. Maybe they did and decided to cut it off.

For the heck of it I ran the channel setup again. It found the music channels. They were occupying the recently, with no notice, vacated ESPN Classic channel spot at 34. Not only that it turned up the HD broadcasts of the 6 local TV broadcasters. Now I won’t have to unplug the cable and plug up the $20 rabbit ears I bought so I can watch TDTVS in full widescreen HD glory. Then plug the cable back in after the show is over.

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106,000 Patrons

Once a year Donna and become golf fans, we watch the Master’s on TV. I guess because we have been there in person…

On our way home from Georgetown this morning we made two quick caching stops to pick up the last DeLorme pages we needed for the eastern part of the state. And just outside the town of Eutawville (YOO • tah • vil) the Emperor passed the 106,00 mile mark.

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