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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.

Started up, went down, still down.
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Backwards Time Travel Is Impossible

We finished watching Disc 1 of Season 1 of Taxi last night and while we thoroughly enjoyed the show way back when and we enjoyed re-watching these 8 episodes, we decided to take the rest of the discs out of the queue. Sometimes you just can’t go home again.

Now that I don’t has the FRS to listen to anymore (well, at least for the 6 months) I’ve been watching some Netflix Instant Watch movies, finishing three of five in the last week. DNF’d were Sex Drive and Numb.

Finished (along with the movie note I sent to friends):

Brick – Mix an LA high school unrequited love story with a heavy dose of “The Big Sleep.” Then add a plot so thick with characters that when the movie ends you may not know what happened. Interesting watch.

Deadgirl – This isn’t for many people & I’m not so sure I’d even recommend it to anyone. Even with a central theme that is about as sick and twisted as can be, I found this a movie worth watching.

The Last Word – Boy meets girl, boy falls for girl, in spite of himself. Boy & girl break up. They don’t get back together. Quirky. Quiet. Dark. Contemplative. Oddly enjoyable.

Started up, went down, went up, still up.
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Baseball Season's Over

The FRS had their hats handed to them this afternoon by the that team from out west with an unwieldy name, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Well, there are still a couple of teams playing, but they don’t count…

I Started Watching

Couldn’t take the blovations of the TBS crew any longer, so I stopped watching. I’ve listened to the last two innings the way I used to all season, on radio via the ‘net. The game is now officially half over and stands as a scoreless tie.

I can’t stay up any longer, so the FRS will just have to win (or lose) with out me.

Started down, went up, back down, still down.
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Like Kissing Your Sister

Pop the champagne, we're a pretty good team!Last night, after their 5th loss in a row, the FRS backed into the Wild Card spot in the American League playoffs because the Texas Rangers lost as well. This means that even if the Red Sox lose their last 5 games they will still have a better record than the Rangers if they win all of their last games. Which is a good thing too because the FRS are about to lose the the Blue Jays again tonight (in a double digit shut out no less.)

This morning the Sox web site was proudly directing folks to the store where you could buy your 2009 Wild Card paraphernalia. No thanks. Admittedly the 2003 World Series winning Red Sox were the Wild Card team, but trust me, this is not the 2003 team. They’ll be lucky to get past the first round the way they are playing.

Rainy Saturday in NC

Hairy HedgeIt was a quiet and rainy day here at the SMH. We were up early enough to get the lot mowed and give a bad haircut to the hedge in front of the porch (before picture to left) before the rain started.

We didn’t get in any caching because we are not hard core enough, a little (and it was not always little) bit of precipitation scared us away.

So we stayed inside and watched all of Disc 5 of Season 7 of West Wing this afternoon and we now have just the very last 3 episodes to watch. We are still not sure what we are going to replace it with in our TV rental queue, quite possibly nothing.

After West Wing I spent the next three hours watching the FRS lose to the Yankees again. I know the games don’t really mean anything standing wise, we’re not catching them for the division and we have a lock on the wildcard, but if they don’t at least win tomorrow I’m going to have to take an incredible amount of grief at work on Monday from my manager…

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Shouldn’t Have Posted Two Yesterday

Should have saved it for today, because I got nothing.

Except for a tear in my eye for what could have been. In the last two days the FRS lost two games to the lowly Kansas City Royals. If they hadn’t they would be only 4 games behind the MFY and then taking 2 of 3 from the Yanks this weekend could have put them just two games out in the east with a week left in the season. Instead, best case if they win tonight, they will be 6 games out with eleven to play, means a sweep this weekend is their only hope at winning the division. They’ll still make the playoffs as the wild card and that worked pretty well for us in 2004.

Started down, went up, back down, up again, still up.
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