This is the first time I've had all week to sit down and write, so I guess I better get to it. I spent a quiet New Years at home, a little wine and really enjoying seeing Dick Clark still showing young punks like Ryan Seacrest how its done. The throat cancer hasn't slowed the old fox that much. Keep going strong Dick. The rest of the show sucked, I don't care about Xtina and I wish Fergie would keep her London Bridge shut. I hate that song!
This weeks has been a mix bag really, for Christmas I bought my self EA Sports NHL 2007 for my PC. This is the only video game I can achieve some respectability at. In the past I've had some bad luck with with games on disk, I bought NHL 2005 at a "Cheepie" second hand place and the damn thing never worked, it would load and then freeze up my computer. On Christmas past I got NBA 2000 it worked until it was taken out by a crash caused by Windows ME (stop laughing, I know this was the worst Windows platform ever). I tried to reload the game the other day, but it must have gotten damaged. Damn! The only games I have that work are Duck Hunt and Who Wants to be a millionaire (Regis' annoying voice drove me insane). So I notice EA Sports has a program called EA Link in which you download a small program that allows you to download the game after you purchase it online. Great, I cough up my credit card(securely of course), start the first of three parts to the process. The 2.5GB took four hours and several restarts of the program to complete. Here's the fun part, the next step requires you to shut down all running programs, including all anti- virus programs and even your screen saver to give the program exclusive link to the internet. Of course they don't tell you that. After five times to complete the download, I get a rude popup saying that I've maxed out my attempts for the week! Did some digging through the EA forums and tech support(?) found out I needed to waite 48hours for my attempts count to reset. Fine, last night I shut everything down, gave EA big brother complete control of my PC and started part two and three, the actual install of the game. Crossed fingers and staying up until 6am I finally have the game installed. A little blurry eyed on afternoons at work, but feeling happy. Note to self, read the damn instructions first!
Watching the news Wednesday morning and I had to start laughing when I heard about the theft of the bronze statue from a park in Oakville. Christ, where do you get a few hundred pounds of metal melted down? A back alley foundry? Psst, hey buddy wanna buy a statue? Apparently it was that easy, nobody knew the statue was missing for three days! Good news is, they found the head. I've never shyed away from a cheap pun so here goes, I guess the crooks couldn't get a head in life.
Some other good news in Hockey, it was nice see Stevie Y's number retired in Detroit. Total class act and humble almost to the point of annoying. The Canadian Juniors keeping rolling, defeating the U.S 2-1 in a shootout. Carey Price will have to keep standing on his head in the net as the kids head into the gold metal game.
Finally, did someone cross a Golden retriever with the DNA of B.T Barnum and get Donald Trump? The "Donald" is a modern equivalent to the best snake oil salesman of all time. Yes he is smart, ruthless and could sell you your own watch. What he spent and made on building his empire, he could have included a personality in the deal. He shows he has no class, by continuing to carry on like a child, hurling fat jokes at Rosie O'Donnell. For the fourth time yesterday he went on a talk show and unloaded his useless name calling and then tossed in the my buddy(Barbara Walters) thinks so too. Donny sure looked stupid when his friend said publicly that she never regretted hiring Rosie and backed up the point with the Time article called The Views newest host, the "Best hiring of the Year". I think the "King of Bling" has his weave in too tight and it effecting his judgment. If he's just trying to drum up interest in the next installment of his reality show, starting on Sunday, this stupid stunt could backfire.
Later,
Kenaz
