Believe it or not I don’t have any terribly exciting tales to relate from the last few evenings.  But, given that I have slacked a few days, an update seems to be in order.  Most of our recent activity has revolved around the turning off of the cable.  It’s not working out quite as expected, as is the case with nearly everything we do.  The grand scheme was to connect the big antenna in our attic to the televisions, and take advantage of all the free over-the-air channels that are available.  In retrospect, this plan maybe should have been executed before turning off the cable.  I knew how I wanted to do it though, just hadn’t quite gotten around to actually running the wires.  I’m more of an “on paper” guy, you know.  Donette finally got tired of watching the snow on the TV’s and ran the wires…  And no TV channels.  Turns out our TV’s are both old enough that they don’t have built-in tuners, oops.  So, back to the paper planning.  I think I have developed another scheme to get it working, which I’m sure will be a washout equivalent to the last one.  Meanwhile, as far as programming, my only real concern was the Royals games.  I thought I had this one resolved with the streaming torrents available for free on the Internet.  Well, a few weeks has shown that the Royals games are almost never available.  Just my luck.  I have seen several evenings where every single MLB game is available for viewing, except the Royals.  Go figure.

Last night we had the parents over for a belated Mother’s Day dinner.  Luckily Donette was able to rush home from work a little early and get things started.  We had brisket, beans, and salad for dinner, and she made a homemade bread pudding for dessert.  We never get dessert at our house, so this was a bonus for me too.  It made for a good get-together, or as good as 18th-place brisket can be I guess.