One more cup of coffee

He shoots, he scores!

Tomorrow I get to go to a San Jose Sharks playoff game. Mark, a manager at work, offered me an extra ticket. I've only managed to see the Sharks play a couple of times, and this is the first NHL playoff game I'll have gone to. Meredith unfortunately can't go, since she's tied up at church. (Or, perhaps, not so unfortunately from her perspective -- hockey isn't really her thing.)

As though I didn't have enough video games to waste time on, I got Jedi Knight II yesterday from Amazon. It looks fun so far, although the Star Wars theme music starting up every time a Storm Trooper starts shooting at you gets old by about the fifth time.

Meredith finally got the CD player hooked up in her car. She took it to the service department, who initially told her that it would take 2 1/2 hours to do the work. Then half an hour later, the service manager came up to her and said, "We have a question about your car. Ummm ... you already have a CD player installed." "Yes." "So what do you want us to do?" "Hook it up." What were they doing that half-hour? At least now, maybe she's done with the process of buying this car. If only we were done with the process of selling her old one. (Or even started with the process.)

We finally had someone come work on our lawn yesterday. With my allergies, the prospect of mowing pollen-covered tall grass didn't appeal very much. We had called a gardener a couple of weeks ago, who quickly came out, gave us an estimate, and promised to return the following week to start work. The week came and went; no gardener. I called him on Friday. No response. Called Monday: "If I don't hear from you in 24 hours, I'll assume you can't do this." That elicited a response. Oh well. It does now look about a hundred times better. Now we could walk in our back yard without fear of snakes. (Not that we have snakes here. But you could have hidden a small farm animal in parts of our back yard.)

Posted by Mike at April 19, 2002 05:25 PM