Almost back to 100%. Spent the majority of the weekend watching TV. You might say, how is that different that any other weekend? I say, shut it.
TV
Friday night I finally got an HD box for my room. I was tired of waiting for the DVR to become available so I decided to get the box until it was. Now I have a bunch more HD channels (ESPN and CSN are most important), all the digital cable channels, HBO, and On Demand. My mountain of boxes is growing with the cable box stacked on top of my ReplayTV, DVD Player, and Receiver. I need that DVR to shrink it down a bit and hand off my ReplayTV.
This week on The History Channel each night they are showing two episodes of 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America. It started last night. The premiere was On Demand and I watched it Saturday night. The first one was about Antietam. I had seen the ads and really wanted to see it. Hopefully the rest will be On Demand, if I record them I’ll probably never get around to watching them. I know that doesn’t make sense, but I need a deadline.
Did anyone watch ESPN Sunday Night Baseball? They have a guy on the field now running after players with a camera. Rolen hit his homer the guy ran down the third base line behind him then ran up to the dugout and got an extreme close up. They seem to have a new gimmick each year. Wasn’t last year the chase camera down the first base line, that worked out well.
Phillies
I don’t really have anything to say about them. We finally won a game and then sat half the team and lost. If I had been 100% on Sunday I would have gone to the games. Sal Fasano is the man. I had a feeling he’d start hot and people would start copying his facial hair, at least with a marker.
Tonight they are in Atlanta, Myers vs. Thompson, 7:05 on CN8 and ESPN-HD (ESPN-HD better not be blacked out!).
Question of the Day
Has anyone ever won the grand prize in any of these lottery scratch-off games? I see these commercials for new lottery games with all these fantastic prizes, but I’ve never won (not that I’ve played) and I don’t know anyone who’s ever won big. At least with the number games you expect that someone might have picked that number. With scratch-off they could have just printed them all up with no winning ones. How would anyone know? They could just say, ‘Oh, the person who bought the winning one must have thrown it out without realizing.’ Sneaky, these lottery people. By the way, my scratch-off game is $5 a play. You can buy them at my desk.
Bad girl, don’t rub your butt on the carpet through telekinesis.
(New Found Glory – My Friends Over You)