Serenity

I guess most everyone had today off for the 4th of July holiday.  Crowded at the malls, roads, groceries.

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While cleaning today, I discovered that I needed a pair of bookends for the top of the entertainment center in my bedroom.  The oversized hardcover books didn’t have enough ‘hold’ to keep the other books from falling to the floor.  I managed to find a pair at Bed Bath and Beyond.

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I decided to hook up the digital transmission adapter to the one TV in the house that didn’t have a cable box attached.  It took no time at all, and I see a considerable difference in picture quality, even on the old 27″ TV screen.  The box appears to give me more channels than I had with just the cable attached directly to the TV.

I had to reconfigure the TiVo box that is also attached to this TV, and discovered that I need the damn IR control cable for it, which I have misplaced.  Luckily I discovered that I can get a replacement online, directly from TiVo.

And that was my morning/afternoon.

I rode the bus every day in June, except for the one Friday after they reopened my parking garage.

Today I decided to drive in because I have a few deliveries coming to the office, and I didn’t want to lug a bunch of stuff with me on the BART/bus ride home.

I remembered on the way in to work that a new parking garage opened across the street from my building, so I decided to give it a shot.

$10 early bird parking (in by 8a, out by 6p), which is $2 more than the AMC parking garage.*

I can see my car from the office!

It’s the blue one on the left

I may drive in once a month, though the summer, and perhaps go back to my other parking garage when the days get shorter or the weather gets really crappy.

It’s nice to hear your own sports analysis repeated by others.

In this case, on Chronicle Live, hearing Tim Kawakami and Ray Ratto (sports columnists for the SJ Merc and SF Chron, respectively) saying that the Giants are currently a good team, not a playoff team, and that they will be playoff contenders in 2010.

Which is what I said over a year ago.

They also both agree with me that the New York Mets have taken themselves out of post season contention through their injuries.

Yesterday I saw a tweet from herc from aintitcoolnews.com, stating that Saturday Night Live (SNL) seasons 2 and 3 were priced at $17, a full 76% off!  At that price, I could no longer resist these, even though I still hadn’t gotten season 1 yet.  So I ordered them. I didn’t order season 1 because it was still priced at $44.

They were shipped the same day, but when I checked tracking this morning, I saw that they were going to be delivered on July 2nd, because they shipped from Virginia, instead of the usual Nevada or Washington state.

I also rechecked the price on season 1, and overnight the price dropped to $28.  As did season 4.  Whoa.

Ordered, shipped today, but strangely enough, those two are being shipped from Nevada!

Along with the Blu-Ray of Enter the Dragon that I also ordered late yesterday.

Everything is due to arrive tomorrow.  Yikes.

Karl Malden
Patton
The Streets of San Francisco

July begins as June ended.  Sheesh.