It's Sweeps Week

Or so the great Bill Shatner reminds us in the Boston Legal season finale. Among other things, this episode spends much of its time admiring Jeri Ryan's hotness. Marriage is proposed, repeatedly, by Bill (Captain Kirk from the original Star Trek) to Jeri (7 of 9 from Star Trek Voyager). There's some trial or something to advance the plot, but who cares? Jeri Ryan is hot.

Yes, this is the first official post to the new blog site. I had a placeholder post here that I plan to delete. If you've found your way here from the old site, expect a new site to be operation eventually, probably at some UTK address. If you've found this some other way, what are you, stalking me?

So this past weekend, I went to Atlanta to see two Braves games. The first game was about as exciting as possible, ending on a bottom-of-the-ninth grand slam homerun. The second game wasn't as exciting and ended in a loss. But I always enjoy going to games, and the weather was perfect.

Friday night, my shoes broke. Just the right one. The shoe part came unglued from the sole part. It's been happening slowly for a couple years, but I didn't know that's what was causing the symptoms. It was going to be a troublesome weekend, what with the right shoe no longer attached to the sole, but forunately, on the way between here and Atlanta is a large factory outlet mall, which had a shoe store. Yes, I could have gotten shoes almost anywhere, but I still would have had to stop somewhere, so I might as well get what I want.

Oh, my new laptop arrived. It's widescreen, which is an adjustment, but I'm enjoying the aspect ratio. The processor is also quite a bit faster. I'm also planning to use it more as a laptop than the last one, which I used mostly as a desktop that moved. I've already been using it downstairs on the couch as opposed to the office / spare bedroom. It's always nice when you can pirate a wireless network signal for some free internet access.

I'll be in Memphis this weekend. I don't have cable internet anymore, so don't expect to see me online much.

I guess that's enough for tonight. I should really be doing stuff around here. More tomorrow.