Day 54

I apologize for not being able to post a blog yesterday. Comcast, my joke of an internet and cable provider, has been essentially on the fritz for the last 3 days. Every winter the same thing happens. It gets freezing cold (10 degrees today again) and there is a outage. My cable and internet were out last night. My cable still isn't working properly this morning, but my internet is working, but very slowly. Of course I have to sit here waiting for them to come out here today "between 11 and 1." What are the odds that they actually show up in the 11 o clock hour? I'm going with slim and none.

My internet being out from about 3PM till this morning made me realize something. I have become so reliant on the internet for all of my information. Whether it be my email, sports information, news, etc, I need to have access as often as I can. This past summer, We spent three days in rural New Hampshire and Maine staying at a bed and breakfast with no tv and no internet. I was going crazy. I felt like I was on an island and didn't know what was going on in the world one bit. Of course, instead of worrying about world news, I was more concerned that I couldn't see a Tribe box score.

The good news of yesterday was that my Sirius satellite radio finally got here and has been set up. With the cable out, this was a great opportunity for me to listen to Howard 100, Howard Stern's channel. I've been eagerly anticipating this and listening to the Howard 100 News was quite interesting. Who knew they could do serious hard news about Howard and all of his various chronies and make it sound legit. Leah turned to me during dinner and said that this was making her so sad, because nobody would have loved listening to this more than Dad. He would have had Sirius in his car and several radios set up throughout the house. Mom used to refer to it as "Stereo Howie" because when she used to wake up, dad would have the radio on in his bathroom, in his office, in my old room, in the kitchen, and in the living room. Every radio was set on 98.5 FM. Wherever he went, he could be listening - that is how mom came up with "Stereo Howie."

KU/St. Joseph's tonight on ESPN at 6 PM CST. This is a must win. So far we are 3-0 and beat every crappy mid major team with ease, yet we are 0-3 against all teams that are halfway decent.

Song of the Day: "It's Funky Enough" by The D.O.C.