Found the Alice In Chains "Unplugged" show while flipping through channels tonight. I happened to come in during the worst three songs on the show (the last three) though, which was less satisfying than I'd thought. Strange to see it on VH-1 Classic as a mid-90s relic, since I remember it being new.

Also, I have a full-time job copy editing with the same paper I interviewed with a while back. I may actually be able to stop back in town for a couple days sometime in the coming months as a result.

The Bengals' disaster today was extensive enough that changing the sheets won't do the trick for them tonight; they'll need to hit a furniture store and get a whole new mattress and frame, since that smell's not coming out anytime soon. The NFL was dead to me for a few hours afterwards.

I thought I was losing interest in football this weekend when I didn't really care all that much about opening weekend.

Then the pregame for tonight's game started and all was right again.

Superclassico (Chivas/Galaxy) and Yuengling... Hard to argue with that Thursday night.

The news feed is down.

[RIP airrore.livejournal.com/friends]

Thought I posted this before, but I guess I didn't...

If anyone wants to hit the beaches this year for cheaper than usual, me and sara are still paying rent on the place we were renting in Lewes.

The place has a full kitchen and working gas grill, so you'd be able to buy food and eat/make it there—saving you the cost of eating out— and is literally a five minute car ride to the beach.

Visitors could be there as late as August 9/10 (Friday) (we have the place until Aug 14, and would need to take care of everything else in the place over that weekend so we get our deposit back), though we'd have to work out a time in relation to other visitors' schedules (sara's family is going down for a week, either late in July or early in august.

We're fine if you want to come down for just a couple days or for a whole week (again, so long as it doesn't conflict with her parents' time there), since any money we get for the place is an aide to our finances :D.

If you're interested, give me a call or leave me a note on here.

There are many new things to discuss.

I have a new favorite TV show: Tyler Perry's "House of Payne." It's a throwback to those old sitcoms where people all say things at the same time, nothing really happens and running jokes include going back to one's home, morbid obesity and badly delivered dialogue.

Tyler Perry— if you didn't already know— is the voice of a generation that gave the world "Madea's Family Reunion," "Madea Goes to Jail," "Tyler Perry Presents Madea," and 17 other Madea-related comedies in 2005-2006. It looks like the sitcom may distract Perry from producing more movies and plays this year, but don't fear: If all goes well with the TBS sitcom, video games "Madea's Hand-to-Hand Combat," "Tyler Perry's 'After Dark'" and "Madea's Halo 4" can't be too far behind.

I also have a new home in Westminster, Md., which is about 30 minutes northwest of Baltimore. Sara got a job there that pays better and *probably* won't be as unpleasant as her old one and since the cost of living here for one person is prohibitive, I'm heading there, too. D.C. is a ways away— over an hour by car, roughly— but there are a series of trains we can take to get there from a town about 15 minutes away, so there's that.

Luckily, I also have a job interview with a new (see how that works?) paper Friday, so with a little luck I'll avoid a period of too much unemployment.

We woke up around 6:15 this morning to find that every time we moved the covers, a gust of frigid air blew up the bed at us.

A check of the thermostat revealed 50 degrees, well below the 64º that we set it for.

A trip out to the gas tank showed over 1/8th of a tank (out of 200 gallons) remaining and a liquid reflection to a flashlight flare.

On the coldest winter night in Delaware for the 2006-07 season, our furnace shut down.

The landlord's on his way from D.C. to look at it; he should be here by 10:30-11 a.m.

On the plus side...

Adult Snow Day!

Finally tracked down a reporting job round here, and wouldn't you know it- sports reporting.

Half of the time, anyway... The other half of the time I'll be doing layout and/or copy editing, but I'm quite happy to do that as well.

Now, to figure out what the hell is happening in field hockey games...

It's a Tom Petty kinda day, and those come around about as often as Collective Soul days.

Waiting to hear back for a graphic design job I interviewed for on Tuesday. Interview went realy well, feel like I've got an almost assured second interview but won't know until I actually get called for it.

Have another interview today at 4pm. With a little luck, I'll have to choose between two things I'd like or don't mind doing.

Sara's car died, so she took Carlemagne today. Waiting around the apartment for her to get home so I can head out for the interview.

Still, it's a nice morning here in Delaware. And I have all morning to just relax. Overall, preh good sorta day.

Ernesto's pointing a stern figure at Delaware.

Immediately after I finally make it to a beach. Damn.