What time is the first pitch?

The big sports news for me today is that it marks the day before baseball coverage starts in earnest. Yahoo!!

The bed has clean sheets. The laundry is laundrying. There is a cart full of trash ready to go downstairs to the dumpsters by the front door. There is a bag of Goodwill stuff destined to the car next to it.

Things are under control.

My taste buds are recovering from my cold but are still not working correctly. Actually, I don't think it's my taste buds, I think it's something in my nose maybe. For a while all food had the perfume of kinda like a celery thing. Either I couldn't taste anything or it had this funky smell/taste/perfume kind of thing going - it's very hard to explain.

Then I got the cold and for three weeks everything tasted like cold. Now I am able to taste most things normally. Bread is still a problem. It has kind of a funky - not pleasant - underlying smell that affects the taste. But it appears that it's only bread - flour tortillas are fine. So I guess for the foreseeable future, all my sandwiches will be wraps! I'm still trying to work out how that is going to work with toast and welsh rarebit.

Now it's time for CBS Sunday Morning. It's waiting for me on Tivo. It's my Sunday morning treat.

What time is the first pitch?

The big sports news for me today is that it marks the day before baseball coverage starts in earnest. Yahoo!!

The bed has clean sheets. The laundry is laundrying. There is a cart full of trash ready to go downstairs to the dumpsters by the front door. There is a bag of Goodwill stuff destined to the car next to it.

Things are under control.

My taste buds are recovering from my cold but are still not working correctly. Actually, I don't think it's my taste buds, I think it's something in my nose maybe. For a while all food had the perfume of kinda like a celery thing. Either I couldn't taste anything or it had this funky smell/taste/perfume kind of thing going - it's very hard to explain.

Then I got the cold and for three weeks everything tasted like cold. Now I am able to taste most things normally. Bread is still a problem. It has kind of a funky - not pleasant - underlying smell that affects the taste. But it appears that it's only bread - flour tortillas are fine. So I guess for the foreseeable future, all my sandwiches will be wraps! I'm still trying to work out how that is going to work with toast and welsh rarebit.

Now it's time for CBS Sunday Morning. It's waiting for me on Tivo. It's my Sunday morning treat.

Such TV goodness

This morning's paper had a story about knitters and in that story mentioned two TV programs - one of them is a TV program about knitting! The paper said it was on channel 203.

I turned my TV to 203 and I got "Not Authorized". Bummer!

I stewed on that a bit and then picked up the phone and called Comcast. I got this young girl who was nice and I asked her what was involved in my getting channel 203. She looked it up and said 'oh you have a really old plan - you'd have to get a new plan.' Ok. So, let's talk new plan...

She got with the program and suggested we look at costs. Good idea. She said that I am currently paying $48.85. "Now, let's see what the new plan would cost so you can get that channel.... Weird. Let me check on something. Ok, well, the new plan which will give you 15 more channels than you have now will cost you $48.85."

She said she had never seen that before - where the prices were exactly the same. We laughed. I told her I'd be happy to pay the difference and she hooked me up immediately. 203 came right on in. The Knitty Gritty (the knitting show) was on at 1:30 and I told Tivo to grab it.

I just watched it and it's amazing! I'd never seen anyone do the stuff that I do. I learned it all from books and so I'd never seen anyone pick up stitches or ravel out bits or even increase. I know how to do it. I've done it all for years - 50 to be exact - and yet, I'd never seen anyone else do it.

It's a miracle AND I even picked up a cool tip for spacing new stitches. What a happy girl am I??

Such TV goodness

This morning's paper had a story about knitters and in that story mentioned two TV programs - one of them is a TV program about knitting! The paper said it was on channel 203.

I turned my TV to 203 and I got "Not Authorized". Bummer!

I stewed on that a bit and then picked up the phone and called Comcast. I got this young girl who was nice and I asked her what was involved in my getting channel 203. She looked it up and said 'oh you have a really old plan - you'd have to get a new plan.' Ok. So, let's talk new plan...

She got with the program and suggested we look at costs. Good idea. She said that I am currently paying $48.85. "Now, let's see what the new plan would cost so you can get that channel.... Weird. Let me check on something. Ok, well, the new plan which will give you 15 more channels than you have now will cost you $48.85."

She said she had never seen that before - where the prices were exactly the same. We laughed. I told her I'd be happy to pay the difference and she hooked me up immediately. 203 came right on in. The Knitty Gritty (the knitting show) was on at 1:30 and I told Tivo to grab it.

I just watched it and it's amazing! I'd never seen anyone do the stuff that I do. I learned it all from books and so I'd never seen anyone pick up stitches or ravel out bits or even increase. I know how to do it. I've done it all for years - 50 to be exact - and yet, I'd never seen anyone else do it.

It's a miracle AND I even picked up a cool tip for spacing new stitches. What a happy girl am I??

The Mom-ism Du Jour

I got a note from Mom. She writes that my brother is being outsauced. "I'm not sure I have that word right but it means that a company is coming in to do his job."

I am cracking up.

The clarification came in from bro... he is, actually being outsauced but is likely to be picked up by the outsourcing company and, if not, will get 4 months severance. Plus he had an interview for another job that pays more any way last week.

I think I'm going to see if I can sign up for outsaucing - it sounds like an excellent deal.

The Mom-ism Du Jour

I got a note from Mom. She writes that my brother is being outsauced. "I'm not sure I have that word right but it means that a company is coming in to do his job."

I am cracking up.

The clarification came in from bro... he is, actually being outsauced but is likely to be picked up by the outsourcing company and, if not, will get 4 months severance. Plus he had an interview for another job that pays more any way last week.

I think I'm going to see if I can sign up for outsaucing - it sounds like an excellent deal.