It’s back. Two hours tonight, two more tomorrow.
Reviled by some. Loved by me. The Tivo is armed.
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It’s back. Two hours tonight, two more tomorrow.
Reviled by some. Loved by me. The Tivo is armed.
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One more week in my shabby cubicle in a nondescript building in a nondescript industrial park. The next week, it’s an Al Bundy vacation of sorts. My little bride and I plan to give our townhouse a good dunging-out and rearranging.
For the first time, we’ll rent a space from Public Storage or somesuch like place, and move valuable dreck from our house to there1. I never thought I’d pay to have crap stored. But we need the space, and that dreck we store will hopefully grace another house, in a land far away from Northern Virginia, at some later time.
In the interim, we’ll have a nice, tidy, and neat place. That’s my story, anyhow,
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[stags]NorthernVirginia, life, work[/stags]
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tbbs is now proudly powered by WordPress 2.2.3. My simple-minded upgrade script placed something where it didn’t belong, so I resorted to my old command line approach of copying stuff around by hand. The value of a good backup was brought home yet again.
But now, the latest WP banner flies proudly.
Thanks, WordPress!
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[tags]wordpress[/tags]
For the running of the Chevy Rock & Roll 400 from Richmond International Raceway, we have:
795 – Carl Edwards, #99
796 – Kevin Harvick, #29
797 – Jeff Gordon, #24
798 – Denny Hamlin, #11
799 – Dale Earnhardt JR, #8
The race that sets the lineup for the Chase. Be there, or be square.
The Channel/Driver/Car grid for tonight’s running of the Sharp AQUOS 5001 shakes out like this:
795 – Tony Stewart, #20
796 – Clint Bowyer, #07
797 – Jeff Gordon, #24
798 – Juan Pablo Montoya, #42
799 – Dale Earnhardt JR, #8
I must head off to my fantasy racing site, hopefully to improve my team. Kurt Busch is peaking at the right time, and he’s on the pole; if the price is right, he’ll be on my team this week.
In the meantime, the race doesn’t start until 8PM EDT, the better for NASCAR to vie for prime-time ratings points. The business of NASCAR is business, after all. And there’s NHRA qualifying for the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals right now, on ESPN2. With six big hours of finals to be telecast tomorrow.
Good stuff.
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[tags]directv, HotPass, NASCAR, NHRA[/tags]
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The driver lineups on DirecTV for tonight’s running of the Sharpie 500 from Bristol Motor Speedway are faithfully recorded here yet again:
795 – Carl Edwards, #99
796 – Kevin Harvick, #29
797 – Jeff Gordon, #24
798 – Denny Hamlin, #11
799 – Dale Earhhardt Jr, #8
Bristol – Racin’ the Way it Oughta Be
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Technorati: NASCAR DirecTV HotPass
For today’s 3M Performance 400 from the Michigan International Speedway, the channel-driver-car matrix loads up like this:
795 – Jeff Burton, car #31
796 – Greg Biffle, car #16
797 – Jeff Gordon, car #24
798 – JJ Yeley, car #18
799 – Dale Earnhardt, Jr, car #8
Maybe Junior should drive car number 799 next year.
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[tags]daleearnhardtjr, directv, HotPass, NASCAR[/tags]
Vital TV statistics for today’s running of the Centurion Boats at The Glen1 look like this:
#42-Juan Pablo Montoya, 795
#7-Robby Gordon, 796
#24-Jeff Gordon, 797
#29-Kevin Harvick, 798
#26-Jamie McMurray, 799
It’s proper that road course mavens carry the in-car cameras while traversing the Watkins Glen International road course.
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H/T: Jayski.
[tags]directv, HotPass, jayski, NASCAR[/tags]
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SWMBO and I were up far too late last night, or far too early this morning, depending on your point of view. We’re big fans of the TV series 24. We bought DVDs of the early seasons that were aired before we got hooked on the show. Last evening, we watched far too many episodes in succession.
We complain that the weekly hour-long episode of the show is not long enough; 6-8 episodes back-to-back may be a little too much.
We had a blast though; we enjoy the show, and more importantly, each other’s company.
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[tags]24[/tags]
The drivers, and important numbers for todays running of the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway are as follows:
#31-Jeff Burton, 795
#11-Denny Hamlin, 796
#24-Jeff Gordon, 797
#12-Ryan Newman, 798
#99-Carl Edwards, 799
Dale Jr is not in his familiar channel 799 slot today; presumably, winning the pole will make up for that.
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H/T: Jayski.
[tags]directv, HotPass, jayski, NASCAR[/tags]