Thursday, June 17 2004, 10:32 AM

I got a rare chance to sleep in today, and I grabbed that mighty quick. Joe wanted to switch up with me today so he could be free this evening, and I jumped all over that, because, well, sleeping in rocks. Not like I slept the morning away or anything though - I woke up at 8:45, which isn't all that late, but it beats the pants off waking up at 7AM. I wouldn't want to change the shift permanently, because I'd rather have my evenings free than sleep in every day.

I was pretty pissed off yesterday at work... I came into work to see a ticket that Phil had left in the queue about some dude messing up his server. (No, I wasn't pissed at Phil, I was pissed at the dumbass who messed up his server.) I worked on that thing for most of the morning, then when it was fixed, which was a feat in itself, he did nothing but complain about the lack of a system backup. Well, it's a dedicated server buddy, nobody stopped you from performing a backup. We can set up a backup that would have fixed this problem pretty damn quick, but as far as I can tell, we never got that request. Grr.

And on a happier note: Congrats go out to the Pistons! Not too many teams can complete a 5 game sweep, but you did it! (yes, I know they only won four games. The Lakers were totally outplayed in game two, except for OT.) Excellent series.

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Monday, June 14 2004, 1:35 AM

Today I went to a Tiger game with Matt and some of his friends from LTU, Lewis, Crystal, and Rob. The drive down was an adventure. We didn't get lost or anything, but the route we took was less than optimal in terms of efficiency, but it was quite scenic as well. By scenic I mean disamal.. We took Grand River through the heart of Detroit, and it's not a pretty site. Buildings were in shambles, some burnt out, many boarded up, and some looked like they'd been blown up. Definitely not a very pretty area. Kinda sad really. During that section of the voyage we attracted a lot of strange looks, seeing that we were probably the only pale-skinned folks for a good five miles in any direction, and we were riding in Lewis's '73 Dodge Coronet. Lots of strange looks from the folks native to the territory there... The game pretty much sucked... we got there late due to the slow route, and when we got there they were already down a run, and it only got worse. The score ended up being 9-2 at the end... definitely not a good day for the home team. I got some sun, so that's a good thing I suppose. After the game we made the journey out to the Chili's at Milford Road and I-96 for food, and more importantly, water. I must have drank damn near a gallon of water. What can I say, I was thirsty. After that, Matt and I went back to his place and he showed me his home theater setup, which was pretty neat. I'm still not all that impressed with this subwoofer though... the thing is like, 3 feet tall and probably a foot and a half in diameter, and yet I still didn't feel all that much effect... perhaps I was looking for the floor to quake under my feet due to the thing's sheer size, but it didn't, so I was disappointed. Oh well. I drove back to Lansing through a pretty good storm, but I passed out from under it into clear skies around M-59, and I got some neat pictures of rain pouring down and cars kicking up foam while the sun was beating down from the clear skies behind the storm front. Pretty cool.

The good part of the sports day was the Pistons' victory in game 4 of the finals. It wasn't quite as impressive as their win in game 3, but I'll take it. The Lakers looked flat, and except for Shaq, they weren't very consistent. Their frustration seemed pretty evident too... lots of fouls in the second half that probably wouldn't have come about had they not been getting out hustled and out played. I'm hoping that the Pistons will be able to win the championship on Tuesday... that would be killer. On a related side note: Yes, I am a fair weather basketball fan.

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