Lost. Won.
Played two games: doubles cricket (lost), singles 301 (won). The team lost, 5-2 against, what I was told, is one of the best teams. The other win was the team captain in singles cricket. I also scored “tonnage” (if that’s how you say it) of 122 points. Or maybe Ton-22?
It’s better when you win.
Man, have I been having some weird dreams. And what’s even weirder is I’m remembering some of them.
Like last night.
It was something out of a David Lynch movie.
Somehow, I, specifically my arms, became infested with what I understood to be chiggers. Except they were black, and I could watch them burrow into my skin like [...]
I scored tickets to the ALDS home game 1.
It will be either October 1, October 2, or (most likely) October 5, depending on where the final standings end up. Of course, they could totally collapse and not make the playoffs, but that’s unlikely as the magic number right now is one. If they can’t win [...]
I won and won and lost.
I was wrong in trying to remember what games are played. There is team 601 (three per side), two doubles cricket, three singles 301, and one singles cricket making seven games total.
This week I did team 601 (won), doubles cricket (won), and singles cricket (lost). The team lost 2-5. My [...]
I got invited to a barbecue by one of the NEC people up in Derry, Nuh Hampshah yesterday. I pondered for a bit and decided to take the SS. It’s about 10 miles from the Haverhill commuter rail stop. There was “switching trouble” just before Lawrence, so the train got in about ½ hour late. [...]
I’ve been having increasing trouble with my router, an SMC 7004VWBR. I think it’s tired. It’s certainly old, at least in hardware terms. The main problem, I think, is that many of the new(er) web techniques (specifically AJAX) was causing it fits. Google maps was nearly unusable. Google maps opens hundreds of connections to your [...]
Back in July, I was ripped off by the MBTA to the tune of $1.70. The caught me in an annoyed mood, so I decided to get my money back.
So I went to their website and “wrote to the top”. I dutifully filled out the form and waited. And waited. After a couple of weeks, [...]
This site was hacked some tme last night which is why all the pages were blank if you visited this morning.
I’m not sure how they got in, but every php page on the site was modified with some code I’ve yet to decipher, but which I assume to be one of those things that try [...]
A guy at my client’s office won a bike “through the power of positive thinking”. Or so he tells it.
He brought the bike into work yesterday (I work at client’s office on Tuesdays) and we took a lunchtime ride. It’s the first time I’ve been out since getting back from the NEC. I felt it. [...]
Monday was the first night of this dart league thing I joined. It was fun. We won, which, I’ve been told, is unusual. That’s fine by me. There are five on our team. I’m not sure if the play is the same every week, but this time there was team 601 (3 players each), two [...]
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1926
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson
Dir: Clarence Brown
Leo (Gilbert) and Ulrich (Hanson) are boyhood friends: blood brothers (complete with ceremony and everything). They go to school together, enlist in the army together, get in trouble together, spend every waking moment together. Granted, this is a silent film a lot of emoting, and I’m looking [...]
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Of all the James Bond books I’ve read so far, and with the possible exception of Moonraker, this one has the least to do with the movie of any so far. The only thing the same between the two is the bad guy’s name is Scaramanga, and there’s an assistant named Goodnight (but [...]
So last week was another round of doctor appointments. First an echocardiogram, then an osteopath.
The ecg shows an “mild left atrium enlargement” which, the intertubes tell me, is not of immediate serious concern. Plus, no one has called me say I’m going to die tomorrow, so I guess that’s okay. That Doppler ecg screen is [...]
The black hand of depression is closing in on me again. Made much worse by spending the day yesterday doing nothing waiting for a storm that never appeared (except to generate enough wind to knock out the satellite dish at the bar next door so I couldn’t even watch the Sox get routed by Texas [...]
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It took me forever to get through this. And it’s not even 200 pages. It started out well enough then branched into occult stuff which turned out to be a (surprise! NOT!) red herring. Meghan is a psychology professor in a local university who occasionally helps the police with their inquiries. This time she’s [...]
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Actors: Cillian Murphy, Naomi Harris
Dir.: Danny Boyle; Writer: Alex Garland
Some animal rights activists break into a research lab and release some chimps infected with the “rage” virus which turns its infected victims into homicidal maniacs in seconds. Jim (Cillian Murphey), a bicycle courier awakens in hospital 28 days after the virus has [...]
e-patients: What’s in *your* MIB?
Wow. I never even knew this existed.
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