This week is looking good. I somehow survived week 1, which was one of the of the craziest one’s I’ve had in my fours years here at MI, and I almost think everything after that will be gravy. I’m more than overly thankful that not every week was like last week but now that it’s over, I can de-stress a bit and enjoy a few things coming up.
On that note, I’m still waiting to see how tonight will shape up. There was talk of getting tickets with my buddy Matt from church in seeing a couple members of Travis tonight at a small show but it’s not looking likely at the moment although if anything, I have the first televised Clipper’s pre-season game tonight to watch on the new HD TV…which is reason 49,025,902,357,230 why having a good woman in my life would do wonders for me. Anywho…so that’s tonight.
My Wednesday will see me catch Mr. Bob Dylan for my first foray into seeing the guy live. This had to have been the expensive concert ticket I’ve ever shelled out for, but it seemed worth it. Not to jump on the morbid train, but you never know how long he’ll be touring. Interpret that however you want. Regardless, I’ll have a review to work on beginning on Thursday so keep your eyes peeled.
I then have seemingly wrangled a good group together to head on over to Alpine Village to take in their Oktoberfest festivities this Saturday. So it should be a good night of food, fun, songs, brew, dancing and the lot. I’ll post pictures on FB as I’m sure I’ll have a good batch as I’m a snapping fool (Snapping Fool will be playing Coachella next year, btw).
In addition to getting things started off right by catching the Blue Sky Divide show last night at church, there is much to look forward to. I’m sure other stuff will shake out as my life has kind of worked that way this year. So things are looking good. More later.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Buying a Conspiracy
So I’ve concocted a crazy conspiracy (yay for alliteration, btw) and I need to share. I highly suspect that the good (or maybe not so good) people at Best Buy have laid a trap for me, which I’ve walked right into. Okay so follow me here…First of all, my computer suddenly stopping being able to connect to the internet and this required me to get a new computer. Now never mind that it was six and half years old and was on its last legs…don’t let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory. Anyway, so I had my credit card maxed out, as it’s been one of those financial years, and so I opened up a Best Buy card if for no other reason than I knew I could get one interest free for 18 months. Plus since computers aren’t overly expensive right now I was fine enough with it. So no worries, right? Nope…
So this is the part when the story gets interesting…a few days later some horrible people broke onto our house and on top of getting away with three laptops also swiped my fairly expensive camera. So since photography has become quite the interest of mine I “had” to find a replacement so since I *already* had a BB card, I trudged my way back for an expensively similar replacement.
Now we get to last week and after turning the TV on and after fiddling about I discovered that the tube is in the process of going totally south on us. Other than needing to get up and slap the side of it every once in awhile, it’s still working but it’s on its last now. So the other night Christina and I went…yep…to Best Buy and I put an ungodly amount on the card for a 42” HD LCD TV. I think we thought that since the cost will be split we might as well get something good. So that happened the other night and we’ll be upgrading to HD DirecTV service as well as do the wall install…and just in time for hoops season so yay me. I can see my horrible basketball team in high clarity.
So this all, obviously, points to one thing; the best Buy team has been tracking me for awhile and has now sprung their trap. I mean it’s the only explanation. How else can one account for all these devices either going down unexpectedly or being stolen all around the same time? Oh and of course it was The Geek Squad who took the laptops and camera because, after all, they have those really cool cars which make for ideal escape cars. It’s all coming together. I will say that they’re really sneaky about coving up their tracks so, for now, I’ll have to sit on the sideline…and make my monthly minimum payments.
So this is the part when the story gets interesting…a few days later some horrible people broke onto our house and on top of getting away with three laptops also swiped my fairly expensive camera. So since photography has become quite the interest of mine I “had” to find a replacement so since I *already* had a BB card, I trudged my way back for an expensively similar replacement.
Now we get to last week and after turning the TV on and after fiddling about I discovered that the tube is in the process of going totally south on us. Other than needing to get up and slap the side of it every once in awhile, it’s still working but it’s on its last now. So the other night Christina and I went…yep…to Best Buy and I put an ungodly amount on the card for a 42” HD LCD TV. I think we thought that since the cost will be split we might as well get something good. So that happened the other night and we’ll be upgrading to HD DirecTV service as well as do the wall install…and just in time for hoops season so yay me. I can see my horrible basketball team in high clarity.
So this all, obviously, points to one thing; the best Buy team has been tracking me for awhile and has now sprung their trap. I mean it’s the only explanation. How else can one account for all these devices either going down unexpectedly or being stolen all around the same time? Oh and of course it was The Geek Squad who took the laptops and camera because, after all, they have those really cool cars which make for ideal escape cars. It’s all coming together. I will say that they’re really sneaky about coving up their tracks so, for now, I’ll have to sit on the sideline…and make my monthly minimum payments.
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