The View From Wisconsin
Just a random set of rants from a Sports Fan from Wisconsin.
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Easter Sunday Observations
A few things I didn't get to hit on yesterday that have been burning a hole in my notebook:
- Definition of frustration: You're typing along all nice and fine when suddenly your Anti-virus program throws up an alert that it's found a virus. When you look at the alert, you realize that your AV program has determined that a utility program that you paid $29.95 for a license is a virus... and has deleted it. The Anti-virus program is eTrust's EZAntiVirus, and the utility is CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner. I tried re-installing a few times, and every time eTrust dutifully deleted the program. I ended up disconnecting the computer from the internet, snoozing eTrust, then re-installing a clean copy of the program I had downloaded from Registry Cleaner's website. Seemed to do the trick, as I haven't had any problems since.
- Before this past week, I don't think I knew or cared what "pelvic phlebothrombosis" was.
- Ah, a five game winning streak, followed by a three-game losing streak, and two out of the last three. Welcome to the roller coaster ride known as "Brewers Baseball 2006". Remember to hold on to all loose articles, because the management isn't responsible for anything lost, tossed, broken or damaged.
- The "3" has finally appeared as the first number gas station price marquees around Southeast Wisconsin. I have this suspicion that if we have another nasty hurricane season in the Gulf region, we could be looking at $3.50 or more for gas the rest of this year. Heck, if President Bush has a hangnail one morning, gas prices could hit $4. I think we can safely forget about ever paying a buck a gallon for gas ever again - I think that's actually what the taxes and fees are on a gallon here in Wisconsin right now, anyways.
- On my addiction: I'm up to 202 singles in Topps Baseball Series 1. I'm actually at 54.5% of the base set of 333 - though I doubt that I'm ever going to finish the set. I'm still trying to figure out what happened with the Alex Gordon card - did someone at Topps just drop the ball, or did they do that with intent to create scarcity?
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