And it ain’t Hillary Rodham Clinton. According to this morning’s paper around 13 million people watched Barbara Walter’s interview with the Senator. Which is approximately half the 25 point something million chuckleheads that tuned in to see Barbara Walter’s interview Monica Lewinski a few years back.
It is really tough to get tickets to the actual tournament unless you know somebody with an in or want to spend big bucks on scalped tickets. When Donna and I moved down here practice rounds were sold on the day of in unlimited amounts. We are not golfers, but not going to Augusta National when you have a chance would be like living in Indianapolis and not attend the 500. We went for the first 3 years on Monday because it was always the least attended day. After the third year the crowds were getting so big that they decided to limit the practice round tickets to a certain number (they’ve kept that a secret) by having a ticket lottery. For the next 3 years we got tickets, but for the last 7 we have been shut out. A lot of other locals that used to go regularly have also not gotten tickets in a while. There is a lot of speculation that out-of-town applications get special treatment because that way more money is pumped into the local economy. There have even urban legend type talk of people putting their out-of-town relatives addresses on the applications and they have gotten selected for tickets.
The reason I’m ranting about this April event now, is that in today’s mail, I got my application to get in the practice round ticket lottery. I am seriously considering putting my Mom’s Connecticut address on there to test the theory. It is not that I’m really desperate to get in and see the golfers or the course again, but I need a new hat. My hat from 7 years ago is getting disgusting looking. I’ve checked eBay and can’t find the right one – just the word Masters in script with no flag or year.
Last night we made it 45 minutes into Welcome to Collinwood before turning it off. This morning we only got to the 30 minute mark of All or Nothing. This got me to thinking just how many of the movies I’ve picked from Netflix have we not finished watching. Because I’m that sort of anal retentive person I have a spreadsheet that keeps track of every movie I’ve rented and how long I kept it before watching it and how many movies we average watching in a month. I went back and ran through the list and added another column for the DNF (Did Not Finish) marking. I had to look up some of them so I could remember them, but I think I got a pretty accurate count. Turns out it is pretty damn close to 20% of the movies rented were not watched all the way through.
Here is the data:
1081 Total Days Member
236 Total Movies Watched
47 Movies Not Finished
19.9% Percentage Of Movies Not Finished
6.5 Average Movies Watched Per Month
$3.23 Cost per Rental
18 Average Days Out
What is up with the Brittney Spears imitation? Don’t know what the name of the song is, but the music and the video could be from any blonde teenage wonder. Jeez.
I am not a morning person. I hate getting out of bed, I am always the last one out in our duo. Early on in our marriage we agreed that the last one out of bed in the morning had to make it. No problem it is a small price for me to pay for those 15 minutes of extra horizontal time. I then eat breakfast and use the time as my wife dresses to make the bed. The only problem comes when I fluff the pillows up to artfully display them against the headboard – sometimes they still feel warm, DAMN I wanna just curl back up in there. That is so cruel.
Well, guess what showed up in my mailbox today? That’s right, Norah Jones: Live in New Orleans. Now comes the moral dilemma, should I just keep it? Netflix thinks I’ve already returned it. The downside is there is probably some schmoe out there who returned his copy, but Netflix will think he didn’t. I’ll probably just return it, if I do like it I’ll just buy it, it’s only $11.24 at Amazon which is a dollar and four pennies less than her album, Come Away With Me sells for there.
I’ve had the DVD Norah Jones: Live in New Orleans right at the top in my rental queue for about 5 weeks and the status has been “Long Wait” the whole time. So I was pleasantly surprised when I got an email on Wednesday that it had shipped and that I would receive it on Monday, May 26th. It was taking longer than the other movie that shipped the same day because I guess it was coming from California as opposed to the regional center in Georgia. No problem, I’ve waited this long, a couple of more days won’t hurt. Well today I got an email from Netflix saying I had returned the DVD. WTF? I hadn’t even got it in the first place, how could it have been returned? I guess it got a wrong label or something. I went and put it back on top of the queue and it’s status is now, “Now.” Maybe when they ship it out this time it will make it all the way to me.