It’s Wednesday.  Four days since I was abandoned to fend for myself, left alone with no food, no entertainment, and no companionship save a half-crazy cat.  Yet I am somehow managing to get by, a testament to my strong will to survive.  Last night, weak from hunger, I barely managed to drag myself down to the Brooksider, where a kind young lady quickly recognized my desperate plight and rushed me a plate of chicken soft tacos.  Rejuvenated by this small amount of nourishment, I made it back home for another lonely night on the couch watching TV with the cat.  We watched The Thaw, which was a thoroughly engaging documentary on global warming.  Or, it may have been a mindless horror film.  It passed the evening, whatever the case.

Last night I headed out to Mom’s house for a service call;  The old PC had been acting up again.  After a tasty dinner I headed down to the basement to take a look and found it…  Working fine.  I think it was an elaborate ruse to drag me out of my Comfort Circle all the way out to Peculiar, ha.  Oh well, with the wife out of town I needed dinner anyway.  And, “working fine” in this particular case means it did actually boot up, and then proceeded to drag along in the usual painfully slow fashion.  Not to mention, from the description of what it has been doing, I think it is about to give up on even doing that much.  So, after doing the usual once-over on it, we headed up to Office Max to see what was on sale.  We ended up picking out a nice HP system.  It will surely be an upgrade from the existing one.  For one thing, it is of course loaded with Windows 7, which I have grown rather fond of.  I think the jump from XP is worth the price right there.  The processor jumps from an 800 Mhz single-core to a 3 Ghz quad-core.  I won’t even try to do the math on how much faster that is…  Suffice to say “A lot.”  Combine that with 8 times more memory, not to mention faster memory at that, and there should be a noticeable speed increase to say the least.  And, of course, it comes with the ridiculously huge hard drive that everything seems to have these days.  The new PC comes in with a whopping 25 times more space than the old one.  Now when you consider that she has used less than half of the space on the old one, that number doesn’t really mean much, but it’s rather impressive all the same.  So, anyway, after checking them all out, debating between a laptop or a desktop system, comparing prices, etc, we finally picked that one out…  And they were out of them.  Naturally.  They were going to check other stores though, and hopefully get one out there today.

Here’s a picture, Donette sent me from her travels;  Isn’t that just the sweetest thing ever?  Everybody now:  “AWWWWWWW”

This snow has knocked the wind out of me.  It’s just too disappointing for words.  I’ll type a little something out of sheer habit but I really ain’t got much in me.

Friday, as I mentioned, I took the day off due to the fatigue of two consecutive late nights.  Good thing too, I guess that was the last of the decent weather.  I headed down to the Brooksider and watched basketball on the patio most of the evening, enjoying the relative warmth.

Saturday morning we moped around the house, then went down and met our friend Brooke at Jalapenos for a little lunch.  She was up visiting from Fort Worth, presumably for the Big 12 tourney;  Guess I forgot to ask the reason for the visit.  After lunch Donette and a few friends headed up to the airport, and flew out for a Spring Break in Newport Beach.  She’s gone all week, so feel free to come entertain me.  I headed over to my friend Ronnie’s house to watch basketball.  It was an “all guys” event, which is something of a rarity.

Yesterday Munkirs & Martin came down and we sat around the Brooksider bemoaning the cold weather.  We were supposed to be bike riding but it was just too c0ld.  Wah.  Tired of it.  And then I wake up this morning to snow on the ground?  I can’t take it.  Doesn’t bode well for the upcoming Float Trip either.

We went to the tournament again last night.  We started off with a quick dinner at The Phoenix, then headed down and watched the first game outside on the big screen.  It was considerably more crowded than Wednesday night;  Pretty good time.  Heck next year we might just skip the tickets and stay out there, if the weather is decent anyway.  We headed into the arena and took our seats for the Missouri game, and the tone was set right off the bat.  It was honestly a rather boring game to watch.  The crowd really got into it every now and then, and Missouri would immediately respond by clanking another shot or turning the ball over.  Oh well, it was fun to be there anyway.  I knew I couldn’t hang at work two days in a row after watching those late games though, so I took today off.  Looks to be a fine afternoon too, I’m heading out there…

We got to go to the late session of the Big 12 Tourney last night, marking only the second time I’ve been to the Sprint Center and the first time I’ve been to a Missouri game.  A little late for the old man, but worth it.  (Check back on that statement around lunch time.)  We took the bus down to the P&L district a little before the first game, around 5:30 or so.  That gave us time to check out the crowd for a while and enjoy the atmosphere outside the arena.  We watched the first half of the Baylor-OU game on the big TV outside.  Although that one was essentially over by half-time, we went ahead and went inside to watch the second half from our seats.  The MU game, when it finally started, provided much more entertainment than the first game.  Despite some rather horrific officiating, which seemed to be deliberately aimed at making the game boring, the crowd managed to stay into it.  We decided the outcome had been decided with a few minutes left and took the hike to the bus stop.  Turns out the outcome wasn’t quite so certain, but at least they managed to pull out the win.