San Francisco and Oakland both won today (I'm talking about the NFL here). Now they're both 4-1 and though they haven't looked particularly dominating that's still a good record. I probably lost another Sandbox football game, but it really doesn't matter when the local teams are winning. In general it makes the people happier and that's nice. Civic and community pride and all. Even if most people don't care, if 10% of the people are happier it affects other people and it makes a difference.

On to baseball. After being down two games to nothing, the New York Yankees have won two games at Oakland to tie the series. As I said Saturday, even down 2-0, the Yankees only need to win three in a row -- not that unlikely. Still, there's one game left and maybe can win that one in New York. Seattle and Cleveland are also tied 2-2. That one could go either way (for NY/Oakland I actually think the Yankees will win, they have the experience). Atlanta beat Houston a few days ago so they're resting and will now face Arizona who beat St Louis in five games.

Hmm, I haven't gone out to a theatre to watch a movie in over a month. With all the television I need to watch I probably won't have the time until towards the end of the year when the first round of repeats begin. Even then, I don't have the budget to watch that many movies. I've already seen 22 movies this year -- not bad considering. Maybe four to six more before the end of the year, maybe not.

If I don't watch that many movies, I can most of them on cable next year. Today I saw "Meet the Parents" and a couple of other movies which I've already forgotten. Watching a movie on television at home is a totally different experience than watching it at a theatre. Theatre is much better and I can't imagine a home threatre system equaling the real theatre experience.

So I'm going to sleep over at work two nights this week. It's kind of rough staying at work. My mind sort of goes blank early and I don't get that much done, whether it's work or personal. At least Thursday night I have dinner with my sister to celebrate her birthday. Not the greatest of relationships there but at least we're talking to each other. I'm thinking of taking her to Creo La, a pretty good cajun restaurant.

I'm watching "Alias" right now. That show is getting wacko. Our heroine thought she worked for the CIA but found out she really works for SD-6, a rogue intelligence agency. This episode introduces yet another independent spy organization. The directorate or K6 or something like that. Gina Torres plays Anna, their top agent. Sure, this is one of the three new CIA shows this season (the others being "The Agency" and "24" I think). But this show is more James Bond fantasy than realistic. Which is ok with me. And once again they ended in a cliffhanger. Hmm, I don't like arc shows too much.

I'm still waiting for the Mac OS X 10.1 Update to arrive. I guess using the mail-order form was a bad idea. I hear that you could have ordered it from the Apple Store which would have shipped it out the next day. One of the things I read in the "Inside Mac OS X: System Overview" is that in Classic you can't install a program if it installs on the root folder. Makes sense since you have no permissions. Possibly if you were logged in as root. But most Mac OS 9 installers allow you to choose the install folder.

So when it arrives I'll install Mac OS 9.2.1 on my spare partition, then install Mac OS X 10.1 over that. Actually I'll have to install the base OS and then update them. This time I'll use the Classic mode more, if only for Microsoft Word since TextEdit doesn't read our RTF files well. I'm also looking forward to native Airport support for Mac OS X. I still have to fix my Airport Base Station which for some reason I can't access even after a reset. Sheesh I don't want to buy another base station.