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No, I didn’t go to Seafair to see the Blue Angels and the hydroplane races on Lake Washington. However, I was slightly highly pissed that KIRO-TV preempted seven hours of programming, including the final round of the Buick Open, to show us boat races and an airshow. I wanted to watch golf! I watched the third round on Saturday, and was disappointed to see boat racing was going to prevent me from watching the final round. I called DirecTV to see if they would enable the national CBS feed for 4 hours, but they wouldn’t. I guess there’s a federal law that forces them to “respect the local TV markets’ boundaries, which are established by Nielsen Media Research.” Shit. Who the fuck wants to watch boat racing for seven hours? How exciting, rocket boats with names like Miss Beacon Plumbing, Oh Boy! Oberto, and Miss Who The Fuck Cares Who Sponsored going round in circles. (Okay, I made that last one up.) I did, however, catch their coverage (if you want to call it that) of the Blue Angels airshow. As ridiculous as it sounds, while watching the Blues performing a close pass, anchor Steve Raible actually told viewers, “Don’t try that at home.” Seriously? Was he trying to be funny? Damn, wotta douche! I never get to have any fun with my $35 million F/A-18 Hornet. How politically correct do we have to be? I kept tabs on golf with “Live Scoring” on pgatour.com. Tiger won again; his 50th career win and second Buick Open.
Friday I found out that diabetics have to be careful about infection in their feet. Whodathunkit? I knew about eyes and kidneys. My Dad went blind from diabetic retinopathy before dying of ESRD and Myasthenia gravis. I actually have a glucose meter and test my blood sugar levels periodically just to keep tabs. I did three tests on Saturday. A fasting test after waking up showed my glucose level at 87 mg/dL. I tested my glucose again 30 minutes after eating two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a Pepsi. This time I tested at 132 mg/dL. Two hours after the second test I was at 101 mg/dL, so I guess I’m not diabetic… yet.
When I came home from work on Friday, I pulled into my driveway with the stereo just a thumpin’. The bass was so low and loud, I tripped the neighbors car alarm. I think that’s just funny!
I uploaded my first video to Wikimedia Commons on Saturday. It’s a 15-second video of a San Francisco cable car on a turntable in Union Square. I shot the video in 2003 when I went to the Linuxworld Expo. I had to convert it from MPEG-1 to Ogg Theora.
And… there was something else I wanted to write about, but I’ll be goddamned if I can remember what it was. So I guess I’ll just end this entry here.
