Weekend Stories

Best Buy in Owasso opened this past weekend! I now have a Best Buy store within 5 minutes of my apartment.

Naturally, my wife and I went in there to "nerd out" and check out the goods. We didn't come away with any merchandise, but we did come away with some nifty Christmas ideas for each other.

And there's a new chapter in the saga of the satellite dish! You can refresh your memory here if you like.

Now that it's fall and the yard crew isn't out mowing, my neighbor has gotten lazy. He just leaves the dish out there in the middle of the yard day and night. Saturday night / Sunday morning, we had some rain and heavy winds. It knocked over his satellite and (I think) broke part of it.

A few hours later in the morning, my neighbor went out and did a Miracle Max routine on it. If you look carefully in the "Mostly Dead" second picture, you can see the length of red string that is holding part of the dish together.



Poor neighbor. I'm sure he was semi-desperate to get that dish working so that he could watch his favorite NFL team (St Louis Rams) play. Adding insult to injury is the fact that they lost in the final seconds of their game. :)