Finally ... MLB Network launched yesterday. It's being carried on many cable systems (including Comcast), and on DirecTV. If it's on your cable system, you should be receiving it now, at no additional charge (assuming you have digital cable), as MLB's negotiations with the various cable carriers require that the carriers include it in their basic ( Read more... )

Weather forecast says today's high temperature will be a balmy 19 degrees ( Read more... )

I'd really like to make more use of TXTLJ, it's almost impossible to make any kind of sensible post in less than 160 characters...

It is currently 5.5 degrees outside. The temperature in the living room is 63 degrees (with electric space heater on), and it's 57 degrees in the kitchen. The furnace has been running continuously for the last 45 minutes or so; when it's this cold outside, the furnace just can't keep up - the thermostat is currently set for 63, and I'll probably ( Read more... )

Once the techs got here, only took them about 10 minutes to get me out. Of course, it took them about 65 min to arrive...

Elevator techs here. Where the car is, they can't get me out. So they're heading to roof to try to unjam things from there.

As I write this, I've been stuck in an elevator @ work for about 50 min. Still waiting for elevator service co. to show up....

I just read this article, and what I saw described therein was ... me ( Read more... )

Well, a couple of weeks ago (plus or minus - I've been running in multiple directions at once for a while, have kind of lost track of the passage of time...), it got really, unseasonably cold (like, below 20 degrees), and I decided that I just couldn't let our front-porch dwelling feline friend (who we've taken to calling "Oliver", after the main ( Read more... )

T-Mobile must be getting their supply of G1's faster than they thought (either that, or the delivery time estimate they initially gave as a "worst case" estimate), because I got my G1 way faster than I thought I would. I've had it for about six days now, and I've had enough time to have a pretty good idea of what I've gotten myself into ( Read more... )