This PlayStation 2 Deal includes a PS2, Controller, Network Adapter, and ATV Offroad Fury 2, and free shipping for $149. The wireless SOCOM clan will kill me if I don’t finally break down and get a PS2 whith deals like this out there…

Yesterday was upgrade day, not only did I upgrade my TiVo, but my lawnmower too. I replaced the blade that appeared to be whittled from a stick, with a new mulching blade. Now when I mow the lawn, I actually mow the lawn – which is nice.

For the really shitty golfer who is always loosing their ball, they now make hand held golf ball radar machines.

The TiVo I bought back in January was the bottom of the line, 40 hour in a TiVo branded box. It’s worked great. Right away I added on the USB ethernet adapter so it could talk to home base through my broadband internet rather than dial up because I don’t have a land line – haven’t since ’98. I got the home media option so I can wirelessly stream mp3′s to my tivo, but I hardly ever use that feature.

The problem I’m having is I can only save like one episode of a few shows and they’re automatically deleted after a couple days to make room for upcoming shows. I needed a bigger TiVo. So I watched the deal sites for a economical 160 GB drive (51$ shipped). I bought a slick case adapter for the tivo that allows for an extra fan and a second hard drive. Then all I had to do was burn a boot cd, format the drive, set the jumpers on the internal 40 GB drive to Master, add the second drive and fan to the TiVo, and plug in the machine.

Now I’ve got a dual HD TiVo with 208 hours of recording time, instead of 40, and it was on the cheep. Plus, I didn’t loose any of my settings or old recorded shows.

Geeky. Sweet.

I had a blast at the Twins game on Saturday. They won, so we picked a good game to go to – the Twins got blasted by the White Sox in every other game in this 4 game home series. There were lots of hits and lots of great catches.

I’d like to give props to the guy two sections over who continually screamed WOOOOOOO! for the last two innings and all the way to his parking garage. I didn’t see it on the menu at any of the concession stands, but this guy was definitely a “Red Balls” drinker. I’d also like to give a shout out to the woman directly in front of me (not pictured) who decided the dome was a private enough place to breast feed – thanks a lot for pointing that out to me Josh. There just has to be a better place to get that done.

I like the look of the new turf in the dome, somehow shag carpet really works with the 20+ year old stadium. You can tell by the number of times the Twins bunt for base hits that the new turf plays really slow. I don’t think the efforts to steam roll the turf during the twins last road trip had much effect.

This guy made a movie about fat americans and ate McDonalds 3 times a day for a month. Wow.

I tried cooking Kabobs last summer, and they didn’t turn out so well. I used a bunch of different veggies like broccoli and potatoes and let me tell you, they didn’t cook well together. The broccoli burnt and the potatoes were nowhere near done. This time we just went with onions, green peppers, yellow peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, chicken, and beef. Things went much better, and a grill full of kabobs always looks good.

I’m excited for Ozzy about the exciting new toilet technologies available at Home Depot. Some day he will be able to “drop the kids off” at an “indoor pool” again.

Note, french fries are also still flush-able – Ogre is reportedly a bit too excited about that.

A student film you may never see: Christmas Ape The Movie

For mothers day I woke up early and drove to the parents house. From there we carpooled it up and headed way up north to my grandparents cabin. All told I spent just under 8 hours on the road that day, and happened to miss all of the severe weather around the state. We put the dock in with plenty of time before Walleye Opener next weekend and got to catch up with the family. I hadn’t been to the cabin in years so it was worth all the time in the car.