Sometimes I feel like I’m doing nothing, even though I feel like I’m quite busy at the same time. I think I’m just at one of those points where I need to get away from the city again…but I won’t be able to until after the pending move.
Friday night I finally made it to Tropic Thunder. Funny, funny movie. Go see it. Even if you normally can’t stand Ben Stiller movies. This one is good.
Saturday, I headed down to Mr. Pocket’s in Manhattan Beach to catch the watch party for the Duck game. Amazingly enough, the game (UO vs. Boise State), wasn’t on TV except for the Oregon’s local production. Because of a new TV rights deal, Oregon games not carried by the Pac-10 contracts (ABC/ESPN, FSN, and VS.) are aired on the new Comcast Sports North West (also the new home of the Portland Trailblazers). The problem with this is that since CSNW is owned by Comcast, most of the other cable/satellite/etc providers, do not carry the channel. Normally, this would mean we were out of luck for watching at the bar, but the folks at Mr. Pockets hooked up the streaming feed from the internet, so we could watch it live after all. The game was good (in the end), even though we lost. Oregon played pretty cruddy for 3 quarters and its hard to win games like that (even though we almost came back).
I spent some time going through things in preparation for packing on Sunday. Nothing is packed yet, but I’m pretty much ready to pack. Just waiting on the rental agreement from the landlord to sign and I’ll be completely official. I’ve already started changing my address with the various powers that be.
