Out of Whack

I went to bed beyond a reasonable hour, but not too late last night. Got up this a.m. fairly early, but after plenty of sleep hour. Went for my long run, then hopped on my bike to go downtown for a bit. Biked back home and was dead tired. So I napped on the couch for a good chunk of the afternoon. The couch ain't that comfortable, but it's in front of the only tv. I floated in and out of various football games, watched the season premier of TAR, and now it's 9:30 p.m. and I'm wide awake.

Sure, I could do something productive now. Like iron some clothes, or put some other clothes away, or put the dishes away, or send a couple emails I've been meaning to send. But instead I've got one eye on still more football, and I'm reading up on basketball. And I've got videoblogs to catch up on.

Speaking of sports. I've been unable to justify the expense of getting cable. Actually it wouldn't be cable, it'd be satellite. My rental company has some sort of deal, so I could get satellite for relatively cheap. But I've been telling myself that I don't need to spend that money. Except I've spent for more than that on a monthly basis going to NBA City to watch this stuff on tv. It's $7-10 if I just have a drink. More like $20 or $25 if I have food. Two trips a month to NBA City and I've already paid my satellite tv bill. And I'm not guaranteed to see what I want there anyway.

Now that the WNBA season is over and the women's FIBA World Championship will be over in a couple weeks, it's probably not such a big deal. Unless I decide I want to dive into college b-ball. Maybe I do, so I'll be up on things when it comes time for next year's WNBA draft. Really, I just want ESPN and ESPN2. And Fox Sports. That's all I want. You know, I'd pay $10/month just to get those three channels.