Got to golf league last night only to find out that we lost the first half by a single point. Turns out the 3rd place team totally anhilated their opponents and past us. I wasn't worried about them at all, but I guess I should have checked before announcing our win. Oops...
Last night was fun night in league, we played a 4 man scramble with teams being divided equally. We finished at 2 under par, good for 3rd place and 5 bucks. I played very relaxed and hit the ball very well, especially off the tee where I crushed every drive down the middle except for on the 9th hole where I was trying to drive the green and put it in a greenside bunker. We just missed a few putts or we would have won it. Next week starts the second half.
In the Circle of Jerks baseball league, I took over first place yesterday. Hopefully I can build on it. My pitching has been very strong as of late and that's been moving me up the standings. Unfortunately, it appears that Brewer rookie hurler Yovani Gallardo will get stuck moving to the bullpen after the all star break, which will force me to bench him and play a different starter.
That really sucks but I understand. He's young and has never pitched more than 145 innings in a season. They don't want to burn him out (can you say Mark Prior?) and want him fresh in September and for the playoffs. Playoffs and Brewers, don't get to say that very often, but the way they're playing right now I sure wouldn't bet against them. For the 2nd day in a row, their catcher comes through in a big way. On Tuesday it was Johnny Estrada's grand salami that opened the floodgates for a 9 run 6th and yesterday it was backup Damian Miller's 3 run walk off homer in the 11th to win it. Speaking of grand slams, they had zero last year and already have 5 this year (Estrada, Jenkins, Hardy and Bill Hall twice). This team could be good for many years, assuming they can hang on to their young core, especially the infield of Fielder, Weeks, Hardy and Braun. Add in Gallardo, Hall and Corey Hart and they have a ton of guys under 27. There's excitement in beer land once again. They head for the friendly confines of Wrigley field tomorrow for a matchup with the equally hot Cubs with a 7 1/2 game lead.
There's something funky going on with the electronics in my house. A couple weeks ago my dvd player went tits up, just wouldn't load any dvd's. I junked it and replaced it with the one in the bedroom we weren't using much anyway. Then last Thursday my Yamaha a/v receiver wouldn't stay on. I'd hit the button it would turn on and immediately off. I took it in to American TV to have it looked at. Got a call Tuesday night. The dolby digital board is dead and needs a new one. It will cost $218 plus tax to fix it. In the meantime I bought a basic Onkyo receiver that was on sale for $180 at Circuit City. Now I'm faced with a dilemna. Do I spend the $218 and get the Yamaha fixed, and hope that it will stay working or do I just forget about it and when I need another receiver just go buy a new one for about the same amount? It has always been more receiver than I needed. It has more video and audio inputs than I need and is a 7.1 channel receiver and I don't have the speaker set up for more than 5.1. I'm leaning towards just junking it. Feels like electronics are now disposable.
Also on Tuesday night I open my laptop and notice I have no network connection. I go upstairs and my cheap-o Belkin router has no power. I unplug it for a bit, plug it back in and it seems to be working. Computers are working, etc, but I bring up Apple TV and all appears fine until I attempt to stream Shrek and I immediately lose the connection. I go back upstairs and it's off again. I go through the same steps and once again it dies when I try to stream a movie through Apple TV. I got it restarted again and stopped trying to stream and it's stayed on for a couple days now. Looks like it just can't handle the load trying to stream that much data. I'll have to get a new router now too. I'm leaning towards the Apple Draft N wireless router. It's supposed to be super fast and awesome, but it's $180 too. One of the things I really like about it is that it has a USB 2 port on it that can turn any USB printer or external hard drive into a networked one. I would move my Western Digital My Book drive to it instead of being connected to Cdubya's iMac so that I could access it from any of my computers. It's where I'm storing all my video files for the Apple TV.
I can't help but wonder what's going to die next...
Peace, out.
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