Sunday
Today has been the penultimate lazy day.

I haven’t left the house all day. (Stepping outside to empty the trash doesn’t count as “leaving the house,” although it does cover the “Yes, I went outside” angle.) I watched football and reformatted DS9. Finally. After many “good intentions” to do so. The road to Hell… and all that. Of course, I spent the better part of a few hours looking for a verdammt 98 boot disk. Apparently, all of my disks and CDs had not been unpacked and/or brought in here, as I had thought. I got Win2K installed. Now, I just need to track down drivers and re-install software.

As I mentioned, last night was… something. Bowling was good; I bowled eight games and had a high of 185 (my last game, go figure). Five of us headed to breakfast and all was quiet. A few people showed up a little later – among them, and the recently-returned-from-India , who looked rather dapper in a shirt that he picked up on the far side of the world. And things were still quiet. Around 1:30 AM, things got interesting: A customer on the other side of the restaurant grabbed one of the waitresses, in a suggestive and rather untoward manner. He is in his late 30s/early 40s; she’s 17. Needless to say, she was more than a little freaked out by it. Something good that came out of it: Pat and Brent (both police officers and one who works part-time as a security guard for the mall of which the Village Inn is part) were at our table when it happened. They went to check out what happened when a patron from the other side of the restaurant came to our table asking for help. People applauded as they escorted the “gentleman” out of the restaurant.

Football Update

New York (Jets) at Miami
17 – 9
I didn’t watch this game. Looking at the score, I’m glad that I didn’t. The Dolphins have dropped to 0-4. Not good. Who would have thought that they would effectively fall apart like this with the sudden retirement of Ricky Williams?

Atlanta at Carolina
27 – 10
Atlanta rolled into Charlotte… and all over the Panthers. For a while, it looked as though the Panthers had a bit of the good fight left in them. Then, the Falcon s put the final nails in the coffins. They say that cats have nine lives. That’s a good thing. At this rate, Carolina is going to need them. This does not look like the team that went to the Super Bowl last year. *sigh*

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati
30 – 13
I watched this game with the hopes that Marvin Lewis’ team could tear down the Steel Curtain. Apparently, they couldn’t. and I talked last week about the lack of experience that Bengals’ QB Carson Daly Palmer has. It’s his second year in the league, but he’s still effectively a rookie – he was a bench-warmer last season. He threw a couple of ill-timed and ill-fated picks. The Steelers capitalized on all of the Bengals’ mistakes and move to 3-1… which makes them the AFC North Division leaders. That will not do. Hopefully, the Ravens will be able to join them after tomorrow’s game.

Washington at Cleveland
13 – 17
Congrats, . I guess that the sun really does shine on a dog’s ass, too. Kidding. (Mostly.) The Browns 2.0 served up a little somethin’ to the Deadskins. And I’m happy with any team that can do that to the Capitol Beltway boys. Even if it’s the Browns.

St. Louis at San Francisco
24 – 14
Did anyone besides and me see the 40 of Whoop Ass that the Rams shook up and opened on the Niners? Not pretty. The Rams held them scoreless through three quarters. Even more impressive: The Rams didn’t score in the second half. And still won by ten.
Kansas City at Baltimore
Monday at 9:00 PM (ET)
The Chiefs roll into Charm City for what is becoming an NFL rivalry match-up. Priest Holmes, the Chiefs’ star running back, was a Raven during their Super Bowl season (2000-2001). Dante Hall is the back who made the Ravens’ defensive special teams look like they were non-existent last year. But, the Chiefs are having problems this year; they are 0-3, thus far. This isn’t to say that they can’t perform, they just haven’t shown it thus far. We’ll see how this one turns out.

Stray Toasters

  • Who has homemade chocolate chip cookies? I do. Mm-hmm, that’s right! Why? Because I have the coolest girlfriend in the world. And she made a batch for me.
  • The twins are knocked out – and sprawled across each other – on the futon.
  • When reformatting your hard drive, don’t forget to transfer your browser’s bookmarks to another partition/drive before you reformat. I didn’t, but they hadn’t changed much since the last time that I put a copy on another partition. Fortunately.
  • I had bratwursts, cooked on the grill, yesterday. For no other reason than they were there and I had the time to do it. And they were good. Very good.
  • What’s the point of playing in a poker tournament if you’re just going to sit out for at least the first hour? Just to advance in the rankings? If you’re not sure enough of your poker-playing skills to actually play – and hopefully advance rightfully – then why waste the time to even register? I don’t get it.
  • Die Hard with a Vengeance was on yesterday. I remember seeing that in the theatre.
  • “Jacknuts.” When “jackass” isn’t quite strong enough, but “fucknut” is a little over-the-top.
  • I treated myself to a few episodes of Justice League Unlimited this afternoon. They were on a videotape (unlabeled) that I had lying near the VCR. Pleasant surprise. Now, I need to go back and watch the season premiere of Smallville and “The Cat and the Bat,” Saturday’s episode of The Batman. I’ll do that tomorrow while I’m installing applications on DS9.
  • : Another from the “That 70’s Legion” series – Karate Kid
  • I’ve been craving cotton candy again.
  • West is not east. Unless you go REAAAAAALLY far west.
  • I still think that The Remedy by Abandoned Pools is a good song.

It’s MUCH past the time that I had planned to be in bed. But, I managed to find a driver that I needed for my video card… although I’m not sure that it’s the exact one that I wanted. However, any further modifications can wait until tomorrow.

Namaste.