We borrowed a co-worker’s dolly to move a piece of furniture over the weekend and decided to return it in “better” condition than what it was in before we got it. We were actually going to paint it pink, but a roll of hot pink duct tape was half the cost. Plus it was slightly less permanent, just perfect for our little joke.
Seeing as we have cut the cable cord, the only games I can watch of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament on TV are the ones broadcast by the local CBS affiliate. But because I have high speed internet, I can watch any game I want on my PC right from the NCAA’s web site. Full screen and in HD too.
Funny thing though, last night I was watching a game that was broadcast on TruTV when I noticed a To Log In: button with “Select TV Provider” written on it. I clicked it and to my surprise there was an Atlantic Broadband selection, unlike when I tried ESPN3, so I picked it and logged in with my email address and password. The video disappeared and was replaced by a “You do not have the proper TV package to view this game” text.
It was correct, as I don’t have any TV package, but once I logged out, I could watch any of the games on TruTV, TBS or TNT. So why log in?
The other day as I was walking out the front entrance of Kroger’s taking my own sweet time, a fellow zipped by in a hurry with a very purposeful stride. I looked over as he blew by me and noticed he was carrying two 6 packs of beer. It was O’Doul’s. I almost blurted out, “In a hurry to tie one on.”, but figured anyone drinking non-alcoholic beer might also be of the non-humorous type.
And if O’Doul’s is non-alcoholic, why do you have to be over 21 to visit their web site?
Last night we went to Kroger to stock up on some more restaurant gift cards. There were two reasons for this, one, no kitchen, so for the next couple of weeks we will be dining out fairly often and two, they were offering 4x fuel points. So the $100 spent equated to 400 points or an additional 40¢ off a gallon of gas above what we normally get from our weekly shopping.
A big disappointment was that they didn’t have any DD cards, because we eat there at least twice a week we burn through those $15 cards pretty quickly. As we were checking out I suggested that take out twenty in cash too as I only had two dollars in my wallet. Donna agreed. As I was going through the motions of checking out, Donna asked the employee manning the area did they have any Dunkin Donut gift cards in the back or somewhere. I paused and waited until the attendant got back, empty-handed, to finish checking out. I gathered up the gift cards and their accompanying bits of paperwork and we left.
This morning when we got to work Donna asked for a dollar so she could go to the machine and get a hot chocolate. When I opened my wallet to give it to her all that was in there was just two dollars. Uh, oh, I instantly knew what happened. I was so caught up in the DD card process that I never grabbed the twenty out of the dispenser. Dumbass!
Donna saved the day by calling the store, and lucky us the cashier noticed the lonely twenty dollar bill and turned it in to the service desk. Retrieving the money after dinner this evening was quite an adventure and if I get around to it, a post in of itself.
The Marines, the few, the proud, America’s premier fighting force, were not afraid on the shores of Tripoli nor the Halls of Montezuma but they cower before the specter of Beyonce.
Earlier today Master Sgt. Kristin duBois,a spokeswoman for the U.S. Marine Band, said the band was notified at the last minute that Beyonce would use a pre-recorded voice track.
Later in the day, Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Gregory Wolf statement included this line, “Regarding Ms. Knowles-Carter’s vocal performance, no one in the Marine Band is in a position to assess whether it was live or pre-recorded.
We have a BCS Bowl Pool at work. All 35 bowl games were used, starting with Arizona vs. Nevada in the New Mexico Bowl on December 15th and culminating with the Discovery BCS Championship Bowl in Miami pitting Alabama against Notre Dame. We include the point spread as published before the first game and don’t adjust it. And if the spread is an even number, a half point is added to the underdog to eliminate ties. We have 36 people playing and with just tonight’s game left my wife is in the catbird seat. If the Tide rolls she wins having picked 23 of 35 correctly. If the Fighting Irish win or lose by less than 10 points she will be tied for first and can do no worse than getting 2nd place money, if the tie breaker doesn’t go her way.
We have a MMC event this weekend, so in preparation the Emperor got a sponge bath this evening. By the time we get home from work these days it is too dark and too chilly to be getting out a bucket of sudsy water and a hose, so I opted for the soft towel and Meguiar’s Quik Detailer option. He is a small enough car and not too dirty that it didn’t take too long. I also put the top up and washed the windows. Tomorrow or the next day I may go ahead and give him a waxing in the garage as well being sure that I do wheel it outside in the daylight at some point to ensure I get all the dry wax buffed off.
We have a cache over in Augusta that we didn’t find when we first looked for it, so we put it on a watch list. This means that every time someone does or doesn’t find that cache we get an email letting us know what happened. Tonight we got a couple of emails telling us that some folks from Canada had found it. Somehow the mundane log of “Found with so & so. Thanks for the cache.” sounds so much more exciting in French, “Trouvé avec Pascal70 et lolo001. Merci pour la cache.”
The bank called this afternoon, the home equity loan is ready, so we meet one last time with the contractor tomorrow and then on Wednesday it is back to Lowe’s to talk with the cabinet guy to iron out the final details. Looks like this thing is gonna happen.
Doesn’t look like my kind of movie, but after seeing the trailer I can’t be the only one who thinks they are trying to channel Jessica Rabbit through Emma Stone.
