ane: gator (gator)
I'm way behind on watching things as usual. I got behind when I was on vacation and then haven't caught up. I assumed I would be able to catch up this weekend until I remembered that it's the US Open (I didn't remember it had started until Wednesday). I've had the US Open on yesterday and today, although I don't always pay attention, and last night I watched the gator game. I don't know what the game actually said about how they'll do this year; I would have though they should have beaten FAU worse than they did.

I stopped at the one nursery that I've noticed near me and like I thought they only have landscaping plants. They did have snake plants but they were larger than what I want. So I've resolved myself to buying plants at box stores. This morning I bought a marigold and something else (it didn't have a tag) for outside. They were 50 cents a piece, so they'll be worth their price. I've planted seeds for marigolds a couple times this year but they never sprout. Since all my outside plants, except my avocado plant (which looks pretty rough), are dead, I thought I needed something outside. I did pull all the weeds that had taken over my pots and maybe I'll toss in some seeds later. I think my main problem has been that all my seeds are from last year.

I did buy one indoor plant, a peace lily, which should be sufficiently low maintenance. I also finally bought an proper planter for my African violet. There were several self-watering planters on sale but of course they were larger sizes when I wanted a smaller one. They had snake plants but they were the ones that have the light colored edges and I want the kind that are mostly green. I'm indecisive about a pothos.

I was a bit worried about Katia when I saw where it was located. But then I looked to see what the projected path is; it so sucks to live in NC and VA, but maybe they'll get lucky and it will keep to the middle of the ocean track.

Wimbledon

Jul. 5th, 2009 04:52 pm
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
The men's final was excellent. Too bad Roddick lost. I watch a lot less tennis these days than I used to. I don't think I watched any matches during Rolland Garros. I saw several matches this time mostly because of the 4 day weekend. The women's final yesterday was lame as it usually is when it's the Williams. The men's doubles was good but wish the Bryans had won.
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
I'm having a four day weekend this week because the office is closed today for the holiday so yesterday was my paid holiday day. I drove home Wednesday evening which took forever because it was raining pretty much the whole way and there was an accident south of Venice which backed up traffic for miles.

I was going to play tourist yesterday but the forecast had said that it was going to be very rainy yesterday afternoon. I didn't rain much where I am but I didn't want to be driving around if the weather had been bad.

Yesterday was mostly errand day. Got a haircut, went to Whole Foods to get almonds, picked up milk. I watched some tennis and also took a nap. Then went out for dinner.

I finally did laundry this morning and the plans for most of the day is just watching Wimbledon. Saw half of the Federer-Haas match this morning. I forgot to set the dvr to record it and didn't wake up until about 9:30.

My main goal for the weekend is to finally finish watching season 5 of Corner Gas so I can get the episodes off my laptop. An maybe finally watch the first episode of this season of True Blood so I can decide if it's worth watching.

I'm totally confused about when Torchwood is actually going to be on. The tv calendar that I use to keep track of these things now has Torchwood on next week. It would be nice if it's actually on next week so that we have something new to talk about at Vidcon during the Torchwood panel. I have downloaded the radio plays and need to get them on the ipod.

Two weeks until Vidcon.
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
I didn't see my shadow.

It sucks working on your birthday. Especially when you're only working with one person, a person that you don't particularly like.

Rainy day today. We got out a little later than usual today since I needed to go to the warehouse and then had to go to the bank since they didn't leave the expense check in my box last Thursday. There were a couple rain showers at the site but never hard enough to actually stop. More of a glare at the sky and put the clipboard in the backpack kind of rain.

I got a card and birthday money from my parents. While we got a christmas money raise a couple years back the birthday money is still the same that I've been getting since high school. Dad doesn't pay much attention to that inflation thing.

Also got a birthday present from [livejournal.com profile] wpadmirer, a book and really cool calendar. Thanks, Sarah!

There's a slight chance that I may be in the office next week. Yea! Why? ) I won't actually know until Friday. While not being in the field is nice the downside will be that I'll actually have to work on Friday next week.

Superbowl was actually pretty exciting for once. I didn't venture out of my apartment after I got home Friday night/Saturday morning. I don't know how bad traffic really was around town but I didn't want to find the crazies.

Also watched Austrailian Open finals this weekend. I didn't actually get to see the end of the men's match because the dvr quit recording. That was even after I extended the recording time from what the dvr wanted to record. Apparently someone who knows nothing about tennis does the scheduling.
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
I forgot about the French Open women's final. I don't particularly like the French Open and often don't see any of the other matches, but I can't remember the last time I totally forgot about a final. I did set the dvr to record the men's final tomorrow just in case I manage to sleep in.

Today the electronics disposal drop off place was open and I took the carcass of the old desktop computer in. This is the first time I've dropped anything off there so the really long car line was pretty strange. I guess I was just used to the Gainesville place where there was rarely anyone else there when I dropped things off.

I also stopped at the bank to deposit the tv fund.

I also bought the tv. Got a really good deal. It was on sale, then I went ahead an got the Target credit card and got an additional 10% off. Don't know if I'll really ever use the card but I'll take the 10% off for the tv.

Need to try the tv out. SGA pilot maybe?
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
Would the male tennis players please call their opponents and find out what they're going to wear? 'Cause all these matching outfits sometimes make it difficult to figure out who is who on my little tv.
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
You know what's really annoying about Wimbledon? On my small 19in tv it's really difficult to tell players apart. Too much white.

I finally remembered to set the dvr to record Wimbledon but I don't have much time to watch it. I hope to be able to watch most of the Roddick match before I go to bed.

I got a badgering pep talk phone call from a friend about my dissertation so I'm back in diss writing mode. I'll be getting random phone calls demanding page counts. We should have started this months ago, it may actually be effective. I've switched to my data chapter and if I can get it done by Aug 1 I just may be able to force myself to finish the draft by Sept 1.
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
I've accomplished pretty much nothing this weekend. I did watch the men and women's finals of Roland Garros which wasted a few hours. I've never been much of a fan of the French Open. There've been years when I've pretty much forgotten about it. It's just sort of during the dead time before Wimbledon when there's no tennis on, especially now that the French Open isn't on ESPN any more.

I had to glue the rear view mirror back on my truck windshield. This is about the forth time I've had to do it. I finally bought a replacement passenger side mirror, but haven't been able to get it on because the screws are too tight. I was going to WD-40 them to see if it would help but I can't find my can. I don't know whether it didn't make it to Tampa or if I just can't remember where I put it. I'll snag a can out of one of the field vehicles and spray them tomorrow. I may need to get one of the guys to see if they can break the screws loose.

Today was the Stonehill meeting which was over in Brandon. Met and talked to a couple additional people this time. I may actually know the names of over 10 people now. Heard a few horror stories about some really bad fanfiction that I'm happy to have missed. And I've now been to Brandon instead of just having driven by the exit many times. A few of us went to dinner at a barbecue place by the mall afterward. It was pretty good although the broccoli tasted salty, I don't know what they supposedly steamed it in. I had barbecue 3 times this week.

Loved this week's Dr Who episode. I don't know why they like doing a episode every year focusing on one-off characters because they haven't really been very good before, but this one definitely made up for it.

I've been rewatching season one of Farscape which has been fun. I probably haven't seen any of the episodes more than once and I recently watched one that I hadn't seen, Pk Tech Girl, at least I don't remember it.

That's all. I think I'm going to be in town all week, at least I hope so. We got an additional map for the project that we've been working on occasionally down by Riverview so we'll work on that for a day or two. There's some artifacts that need to be analyzed so they need to have me in the office for a day to do that. I'm also moving my desk to another room so hopefully they'll realize that they need to give me an hour or two to get everything re-situated

Fuck ESPN

Jun. 30th, 2006 08:09 pm
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
I get home and turn on ESPN2 to see if I'm lucky enough to see some tennis. The hotel in Clewiston doesn't have ESPN2 so I've been tennisless all week. I'm lucky and they're showing the Blake-Mirnyi match. So I'm glancing at the tennis scores scrolling along the bottom to see what happened today and what do I see? The final score of the Blake-Mirnyi match. Bastards.

I have errands I need to do tomorrow but tennis starts at 8am and will be on most of the day. Dilemma.

In other news I have a craving for Indian food. Last weekend I had a craving for lasagna so I'm probably actually going to make that tomorrow. Whether I satisfy the Indian craving, which is all J's fault, is unknown.

My season 6 Highlander DVDs came as did the season 1 Sentinel ones. I'd ordered them during the 20% off sale which I can never resist. My printer ink that I ordered also arrived this week so I came home to two packages that my neighbor was good enough to hold for me. Since I have 4 days off I should be able to get some dvd watching in, although I'll be watching much tennis also.

State per diem is suppose to go up next week, an increase of $15 per day. We'll see if we actually get it.

us open

Sep. 8th, 2005 02:01 pm
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
As soon as I post that the Agassi-Blake match was rather anti-climatic it starts to get interesting. Most of the match was really up and down but the end of the match was worth waiting for. I hope Blake keeps playing this well. He's always been my favorite of that age group of American players.

More doubles on today. I actually sent an email to the USA network thanking them for showing doubles. We rarely see any doubles during the other three majors. I swear ESPN would rather show the same singles match five times than show a doubles match.

Ophelia still lurking.
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
Rutgers football games are on so infrequently, mostly because Rutgers football generally sucks. Even though it was on today it was largely ignored for the Blake-Nadal tennis match. I did however flip over to ESPN2 occasionally to notice them waste their 24 point lead and lose. Never understood why Rutgers couldn't develop a good football team.

Today was a very good tennis day. The Blake-Nadal match was excellent. I hope Blake beats Robredo and gets to play Agassi. Of course then we'll have a major dilemma on who to root for. Agassi match was good. Davenport match was good. Even the Ginepri-Haas match is pretty interesting. Haas has a major problem with not being able to hold his serve after he's broken though.

I've only been watching matches here and there all week, but I'll start paying a lot more attention now. Well except for the Williams-Williams match tomorrow which will probably be lame.

Packers

Nov. 16th, 2003 08:33 pm
ane: packer helmet (packers)
Yea! Packers won. Bucs really couldn't afford losing another game, but Packers' winning was much more important. Bucs really haven't been looking good. Vikings lost again, they're just fading away.

Masters final was Federer-Agassi. Agassi just didn't have a chance.
ane: Earth and sun (sports)
Floyd remains safely in his proper home in Iowa. *g* The Iowa-Minnesota game started a half hour before the Florida game so I watched the beginning and taped the rest. I haven't watched it yet, I will later or tomorrow.

Florida won, but it didn't look good. They kept fumbling on the 20 or 10 yard line.

The Schuettler-Agassi match was weird. Schuettler just kind of went away for the second set. ESPN isn't showing the other semi-final until 11. At least it's better than this morning where the Roddick-Coria match didn't start until 1am. I watched it all, I think it was over at 3.

US Open

Sep. 6th, 2003 07:13 pm
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
The semi-finals were much too stressful.

This is just not acceptable.
ane: backdirt pile (archaeology)
I did manage to get an intern for the semester. He signed up yesterday which was the last day of drop-add. He started today. We filled out the museum paperwork and I had him wash artifacts for a couple hours. He's going to do 3 hours Mon, Wed, and Fri. Which means that my daytime schedule on Tues and Thurs are open. I probably won't go in on Tues until I have to drive in at 430 to teach and Thurs I can stay home and work or go in. And since Enterprise in on Thurs at 4pm, I managed yet again to get a schedule that doesn't conflict with my tv watching.

Sitting in on the lectures hasn't been too bad this week. I did notice this week that the prof isn't well informed on a few topics. Like she mentioned the Supreme Court sodomy ruling but wasn't very clear and didn't know that GA had repealed their sodomy law years ago.

She also actually has things that she wants us to do in discussion classes. I've TAed the class 3 semesters with 2 other profs and this is the first time that the prof had any interest in saying what we should do in discussion. I wish it was like that the first time I TAed it rather that having to stumble along and figure out what to do on my own. Now I have mixed feeling about assigned projects.

Our copies of the text finally came in so I'll do some reading and skimming this weekend to get ahead.

Tomorrow's a home football game so it's avoid anywhere near campus day.

Almost out of dial up time for the month. I realized the other day that the dial up accounts that we use these days have been in use for almost 5 years. They've never increased our monthly quotas even though bandwidth price is lower these days. That unused minutes don't roll over has always annoyed me.

Now I'm back to home so that I can watch the Roddick match and finish the book that I've been reading while watching tennis all week. Must finish it tonight.
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
My jinxed predictions for the US Open are boring. Men: Roddick, Women: Clijsters. I wanted to pick Davenport for the women but after retiring in the final Sat because of her foot I'm not sure if she can do 2 weeks.

Just to mention: Robert Yim-- looks about 10 years old, can't believe he's 18.

Edited to add: Noooo... Max lost.

US Open

Aug. 22nd, 2003 05:46 pm
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
Noooooo... Just read that Anna Kournikova is going to be doing something or other for the USA broadcast. Ick. Can't stand her. On a good note Jim Courier is still listed as a commentator. Courier's so fun. If it can't be the Patrick and Cliff duo, Courier commentating is the next best thing.

The important question is how much I'll be able to manage to watch.
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
At the sports illustrated tennis webpage (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/) there is a headline saying. 'Chilean Gonzalez hit with water bottle thrown by fan' right next to it is an ad for bottled water.

Wimbledon

Jul. 6th, 2003 05:23 pm
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
I missed the first couple games of the men's final. I had the alarm set for 830, when it went off I decided to catch a last few minutes. The next time it went off the radio signal was fuzzy so it didn't really wake me up. Luckily I woke up on my own at about 915. Needless to say I had forgotten to set the VCR to tape the tennis.

The women's final was odd. But at least it was shown. Nice to hear them bitch about what the French Open had done. But is something going to be done about it?

The mixed doubles was great.

I successfully jinxed my predictions and my last minute rooting selection. Well, except for Navratilova but I declare her exempt from my jinx vibe.

Wimbledon

Jul. 5th, 2003 11:11 pm
ane: Earth and sun (Default)
I really dislike Williams-Williams finals. I was pretty much bored the whole time. I kept thinking that if I made a quick run to the store to get a newspaper I probably wouldn't miss much. I actually ended up going to the store during the injury timeout in the third set. Only missed two games. I hit record on the VCR before I left but I didn't really have any desire to watch them.

I think I'm rooting for Philippoussis tomorrow.

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