September Concerts

I'll be seeing two concerts in September, now.

I got tix on preorder for Dave Matthews Band on September 6th at Raley field. I'll be on the field, section 25, row 1. I have two tickets for that venue, I just have to choose my hot date. Here's the seating chart.

September 8th will take me to the Arco Arena. I just purchased 5 tickets for the Dixie Chicks. I acquired seats in section 101, row V, seats 7-11. No seats were available on the main floor, so I presume all those got snapped up on fan pre-order. Here's the seating chart.

More planned Tivo hacking

I called Surewest the other day to compare their bundled internet/cable/telephone service to my current offering. I think I've come to the decision to simply get their internet package and forget the rest. I don't want to lose my DVR, in fact, I think it will be beneficial to attempt to hack the DirecTivo I have for my living room and upgrade it using InstantCake and the PTVnet. Then I will be able to get the DirecTivo up on my network. I acquired a 500gb hard drive from Fry's today, so I'll be able to gather up a lot of shows at high quality. I think I'll just put the idea of HD on hold for a while.


I bought a usb network adaptor at Fry's today. Of course, I picked the model that Tivo does not support. Piffle. Next week I'll take it back, I guess. Foo.


Since neither Surewest nor DirectTv offer cable card service, the allure of a Series 3 Tivo doesn't seem all that fantastic to me, especially since there's no lifetime service fee anymore.

So, that's it for this week's installment of "As Annie Hacks". Stay tuned for when I find a motherboard, processor and ram and build another computer from scratch!

Monarchs beat the Sky!

taogrl took me to see the Monarchs play the Sky in Arco Arena. They played a good game. The refs were on signicant amounts of crack.

The highlight of the evening, however, was the results of our "Yours and Mine" game. As you may recall, this is a highly unsavory and impolite exercise in which, while people watching, the purpose is to "claim" the cute guys for your own by secretly whispering into your opponent's (in this case, taogrl's ear, identifying the individual, and either claiming it as your own, or bestowing it upon your opponent friend. Recall that you would only bestow a person onto your friend if said individual was freaky in a baaaad way.

So, taogrl drew first blood tonight by bestowing a gentleman to me. The game played out as follows:
taogrl: Number 12 over there. He's yours.

I look over to where she's directing me, and see a rotund gentleman with rat-like facial features in a big Oakland Raiders jersey. But the Jersey says "32" on it.

Me: Uh, that's not number 12. That's number 32, and he's YOURS.

Yes, boys and girls, I won that round. If you don't call it out right, you get to eat it.

So, here is a gentlemen who currently wears the #12 Jersey in the Fifa 2006 World Cup. taogrl, he's mine:

Oh, and taogrl, he's yours: