Wasting another evening...

I watched the season premiere of Deadliest Catch, as well as the "Best of" for the last season. The girlfriend got home while the premiere was going on, so I didn't really pay a whole lot of attention to parts of it. I'm sure they'll show it again anyway. We had leftover Easter dinner and Salisbury steak for dinner, which hit the spot pretty well. I should probably cook dinner more often, but I'm just not feeling all that ambitious about anything lately...

I saw that the Mariners took 10 innings to beat the Angels, 2-3, but at least they managed to win it. That puts the M's at 6-2 and the Angels at 3-4. Remaining games are going on. Texas is currently on the tube, tied with Baltimore at 3-3. The Blue Jays are tied with the Twins, 2-2 at the end of regulation play. And early in the game, Boston is smackin' the A's around, 3-0. We'll see how all of those games play out, though...

Another day's useless energy spent...

I've been sitting around watching history shows for a few hours now. The girlfriend and I watched another episode of Freaks and Geeks, and then I watched the last couple of outs of the baseball game I'd been watching earlier. After that, I watched the debut episode of Doing Da Vinci, where a group of engineers and such try to build weapons designed by Leonardo. This episode they built the giant round conical tank, and it seemed to work pretty well, although it certainly would have been loud. During their tests, firing one of the cannon in the tank generated a sound pressure level of 116 dB. I'm quite sure that any soldiers manning the vehicle without serious hearing protection would have certainly been deaf. But, aside from that, the vehicle did appear to be a viable war machine.

Following that show, I switched over and watched the debut episode of Patton 360, which details the battles of General George Patton during World War II. That show was interesting, and told me a lot of things that I didn't know before about Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa during World War II. I haven't really ever seen something that just follows his career in the war that way, so I think it should be pretty interesting to watch the whole thing. Actually, now that I think about it, I think the movie The Big Red One might follow his unit through World War II, but it's a dramatized version, not a documentary. In any case, I'll keep watching it unless we decide to cancel our cable to save money...

After that, I watched a repeat show about the Battle of El Alamein, and now I'm watching a repeat show about Kublai Khan's failed invasion of Japan. Both interesting shows, even though I've seen them before. The girlfriend isn't tired, so she's making some chocolate chip cookies. I'm not sure when she's going to want to go to bed, but I'm getting pretty close to that time myself...

The baseball game I watched today was National League, so not all that important to my teams, but here are the results that do matter. Texas continued their losing streak, at the wrong end of a 10-9 result against visiting Baltimore. That drops them to 3-4. Toronto went to 6-2 with an 8-6 win in Minnesota. Toronto's in first place in the AL East, half a game ahead of Baltimore. And Oakland moved to a 3-4 tie with the Rangers by mauling the Red Sox 8-2 at home. Seattle and the Angels did not play today.

AL West Standings:
Seattle, 5-2 (.714 win %)
LA Angels, 3-3 (.500 win %, 1.5 games behind)
Oakland, 3-4 (.429 win %, 2 games behind)
Texas, 3-4 (.429 win %, 2 games behind)

My sweetie had to close at work today, so she got up around 9:30 this morning to get out the door in time for work. I slept in a little and got up after she had herself ready. I didn't want to get in her way while she was getting ready. After she left, I took a shower, cleaned myself up a little, shaved for the first time in a couple of weeks, and generally tried to get myself ready to take on the day.

Unfortunately, I wasn't really feeling all that ambitious, and I ended up sitting on my ass in front of the glowing box for a fair chunk of the day. I did clean the litter box and do some dishes, but that was most of my productivity for the day. I went through the papers that I'd bought on Wednesday and circled any jobs for which I felt remotely qualified. Unfortunately, there just really aren't anywhere near as many of them as there were when I was last looking for work. Now I'm really wishing I hadn't been fired. Damn it.

And to add a little insult to injury, I found out that they've taken Junkyard Wars off TV, so I can't even enjoy that during my enforced time off, damn it. I guess it's better that way, because at least I'm more likely to get some work done. Although it didn't work that way today. I guess I'll head off to bed and try again tomorrow...