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I went to San Francisco this weekend, expecting to go see the Mets lose two games to the Giants, but was pleasantly surprised. They actually managed to win two games in a row, something that hasn’t happened all that often for them this season. PacBell Park is a beautiful stadium, too, and awesome for baseball. I really have to get myself to more games, I had almost forgotten just how much fun it is.
I did a few other things while I was up in the bay area, including bowling (threw a 249!) and played quite a bit of pinball (got my initials in a Medieval Madness table). Actually, that’s about it. Baseball, bowling, and pinball. Good way to spend a weekend. Oh yeah, and food and sleep.
There were two things about the weekend that were slightly annoying. Well, three if you count the fact that Piazza got injured Friday night (the game before I finally see the Mets play this season) and is possibly out two months. That, and I got a speeding ticket on the drive up to SF. For some reason, that’s not bothering me nearly as much as I would have expected. It’s my first ticket in California.
Lastly, there was a power outage in my apartment while I was gone, and my stupid cable box doesn’t turn itself back on when the power comes back. This means my Tivo, instead of recording two new episodes of the Simpsons and two new episodes of Malcolm in the Middle, recorded two hours of an empty black screen. Stupid cable box. It’s now plugged into a UPS. Yeah, you read that right. I have battery backup for my cable box. Oh yeah, it missed an episode of Farscape, too.
I bought the UPS at Staples today, along with a 52x24x52 CD-RW drive (which will likely only be used as a regular CD drive for one of my machines that didn’t have one), 100 blank CDs, and a bunch of other random crap. All for $130 – $110 in rebates. I think I need help. Well, actually, I have help in FatWallet and Rebate Tracker. Don’t know what I’d do without them.
Well, I should probably be getting to sleep, because I want to (for the millionth time) start getting into work earlier. Somehow, I doubt it’ll happen.
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Lastly, there was a power outage in my apartment while I was gone, and my stupid cable box doesn’t turn itself back on when the power comes back. This means my Tivo, instead of recording two new episodes of the Simpsons and two new episodes of Malcolm in the Middle, recorded two hours of an empty black screen. Stupid cable box. It’s now plugged into a UPS. Yeah, you read that right. I have battery backup for my cable box. Oh yeah, it missed an episode of Farscape, too.
Oh, that has happened to me bunches of times. The UPS doesn’t sound like such a bad idea, come to think of it…
“Lastly, there was a power outage in my apartment while I was gone, and my stupid cable box doesn’t turn itself back on when the power comes back. This means my Tivo, instead of recording two new episodes of the Simpsons and two new episodes of Malcolm in the Middle, recorded two hours of an empty black screen. Stupid cable box.”
uh.
maybe it was a sign that you shouldn’t watch so much TV? 🙂