Bad Firedog, Bad!

You spend all this money, and the soonest they can come out is April 9th? What kind of crap customer service is that? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgh.

I am so happy baseball is back. Poor Cardinals though, opening day was washed out. At least we get to see an extra game tomorrow!

I am trying to put together my summer vacation 2008. I have a few ideas: Wyoming, Virginia Beach, Seattle, Las Vegas, Portland, Chicago, Charleston and a few others I am kicking around. I need to decide if it's somewhere I want to drive or somewhere I will fly too, and not have to bother renting a car. I don't want to have to pay for plane tickets, room and a rental car. If you have any insight let me know.

Prince Albert in a Can

Well, it can never be perfect. My new TV and stand look totally awesome, but there are some issues. I had Circut City build the stand for me, but there is a large scratch right in the front. As for the TV, the picture is gorgeous, but its almost impossible to listen to it. The TV sounds like everyone is speaking from a tin can, giving it an incredibly "tinny" sound to the TV. And if there is music, you just have to mute it. So, naturallly, I wasn't happy. I went to down to Circuit City and they are sending someone out from FireDog to fix it. As for the stand, I was given 2 options: 1. Take a discount on it or 2. Have them build a new one and deliver it. I went with the discount, and got $53 dollars off my bill! I'll easily fix it with a furnature pen.

President Bush got a pretty resounding booooooooo while throwing out the first pitch at tonight's game at Nationals stadium. Nothing wrong with that.

Don't forgot, tonight is the Season 2 premier of The Tudors on Showtime!!!

Movies to buy this week: Sweeny Todd.

Its Alive!

My new TV arrived (sort of crappy picture, I know). But in an odd scheduling fluke Circuit City won't be coming to actually hook it up and turn it all on until Saturday. So, it's sitting in front of my bookcase because I still have my old entertainment center and TV sitting where all the new stand and TV will go. The TV stand it's on is new too - and weights 81.5 pounds so I'm not going to be moving it until the circuit city guy comes. The stand is actually a dark brown and will match the oil I have hanging on my wall right now. Saturday is sort of going to be a wash because he will come between 11-1 and then Charter will come between 3 and 5 to bring my new HD box. I got a break on signing up for HD; only $3 dollars more added to my cable bill!

I saw something intersting at the Post Office today. It was two foreigners mailing huge suitecases. Literally, suitecases. I had no idea the Post Office took suitecases as a viable means of shipping something. And they were good cases too! How stupid is that? It's going to get all banged up going overseas.

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Have you seen this website? It's so funny. I learned about it while reading the Boston Globe online.

Movies to buy this week: The Mist

My bracket is busted

Four of the teams I have in the Sweet Sixteen are already out. Ugh! But, Kansas and UCLA are still in it, I have Kansas set to go all the way.

So you might be hearing about the floods in Missouri. It is literaly down the road from me. About a 3 minute drive down the road (I am up on a hill). To get onto Highway 44 has been barricaded off because the road we would go down is under water. That is sort of weird. At the empty Schnucks by me there's about 30 semis in the parking lot and assorted MODOT vehicles. Stupid me, when I first saw the parking lot, I thought "Finally, a new store is moving into the empty Schnucks!" It's just nuts to be driving to my apartment and pass Highway Closed and Water on Road signs.

I love this picture of the Lewis & Clark statue on the St. Louis Riverfront. This is a before and after shot from this week. My question is, why don't they move the statue? This has happened to it before. Why not move it up just a tad? Oh well. I can't remember the name of their dog...Scout?

Next week is shapping up to be a really exciting week. I bought a new Samsung 40'' 1080 HD LCD tv. It's being delivered next Saturday. I also subscribed to the High Definition service from Charter and got a deal - only three dollars more added to my monthly bill. I'll put up a picture once everything has been set up!

In memorium

Stupid America. How could you? Now Kristy Lee Cook will never be voted off.

Carry on my Wayward Son

Back in the USSR

I Hate Myself for Loving you

Tar? Check. Feathers? Check.

So it rained all day. Who cares. There is no reason to complain. In April when everything is blooming and your allergies are killing you, you will wish it would rain.


I'm really into HBO's new miniseries John Adams. The guy deserves his due. But, I do have one issue. The first episode was rated TV-PG but it had male full frontal nudity for an extended time in one scene. What happened in the show was that there was a protest at the Boston Harbor and the English pulled this poor guy out of the crowd, ripped his clothes off, and then tarred and feathered him. I wonder if there were any parents who let their kids watch it because it was rated PG and then watched that? (I thought it was sort of funny...)
John Adams

L for Lame

I am happy to report that I am feeling a lot better. I go and see the ENT tomorrow so we will see how that goes...but the new medication has helped a lot. It was a good weekend and I got to go see the Funny Games movie. That was awesome! Not for the faint of heart though. Those poor yuppies. But for those who see the movie, I did not like the whole rewinding the movie thing. It's only playing in theater in St. Louis so if you want to see it go to the Tivoli.

While I was down in The Loop, I happened to past a group of about 20 protestors standing in front of the Church of Scientology building. Now, I think it's a totally bogus "religion" too, but hey, this is America people. And why where they wearing the Guy Fawkes masks from the movie V for Vendetta. How stupid is that? Yes, Guy Fawkes stood for something, fighting against the English government and all...but how does that relate back to a bunch of dorks in St. Louis protesting in front of that church. Why wear the masks from the movie. Wouldn't it discredit you if I leaned out the window and said how much I liked that movie? I dont understand.