No, not the movie (although I did recently watch 'The Girl'.) Not the local sports teams, either ( Read more... )

The day I had the surgery? No sooner did we get home, but we got a phone call. My brother had just finished playing a round of golf - with Phil Mickelson. He was in a pro-am and drew Mickelson. There had darn well better be an autograph for me somewhere...

( The Shot Heard Round the World... )

Finishing a long day of gaming, both watching and playing ( Read more... )

But Isner/Mahut is now up to 61-61. Yeah, you read that right. This match is now on its third day. I somehow suspect neither of them will be good for much tennis for some weeks after this. But in the meantime, um, WOW.

ETA 66-67 now.

It's finally over. Isner won, 70-68. One suspects he won't last long in the second round, he probably can't feel his ( Read more... )

By some miracle, ( the off-duty, drunk cop who blew away a Marine who touched his girlfriend did, in fact, turn himself in after 48 hours as a fugitive. )

Never have any Big East teams in my brackets.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to choke. Just like they did.

According to the early ratings returns, 80% of Canadians watched the Canada/US gold medal hockey game Sunday. Let me say that again: 80%. You couldn't get 80% of Americans to agree the sky is blue, much less watch the same TV program.

Wow.

Didn't really do a whole lot other than laundry, vacuuming and cleaning up ITunes. And the vacuuming and taking out the recycling did nothing for my poor shoulders, nor did computering help my poor right hand. But I did figure out where the problem is in my ITunes library - the upper level folders are fine, it's the lower level ones that for some ( Read more... )

Now, other than ice hockey, I really don't care about the Olympics. But I just turned off a movie on the DVR (FWIW, 'Alfie' - good gravy, what an ass. How on Earth would any woman want anything to do with that SOB?) and on the telly is curling. Canada v Norway. And I'm almost entirely stuck on Norway's pants. Those may be the ugliest pants I've ( Read more... )