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Ashlan has decided to try working 4-10s this week so she can have Wednesday off to go to a day game. This, of course, means that I am also working 4-10s, plus Wednesday. But since I am planning to take a few days off next week, this is necessary work time anyway. And I don’t have to explain why I am staying late everyday.

But that got us home a bit later than usual.

Relatively nice, so we decided to take a walk (Carl & I).
So Ashlan drove us to Northgate.

We usually just set out from home. But it was a later start than usual (4-10s), and we didn’t need a really looong walk, just 3-4 miles, and dinner was cooling in the kitchen already (meatloaf).

Northgate is a mall, one of the oldest in America (“indoors”, with public restrooms). Our goal was not the restrooms, or one of the many stores with walls, but a kiosk for Comcast Cable Television everything you could ever want to pay a monthly bill for.

It is 2010 and that means the World Cup, the every four year soccer celebration. Also the one time we feel compelled to get not-over-the-air TV so we can watch more than just a few games. So we sold our soul for the multi-channel bonanza, being installed on Thursday.

The World Cup itself lasts less than 2 months, ending July 11th, but we will probably keep the cable through the summer. By the end of a few months we usually have realized that we don’t need all those channels, there is not that much more to watch than the few channels we get over the digital air.

We did not opt for the movie channels.

But Ashlan & I did have a movie night last night, after the cable purchase, walk home, and dinner (meatloaf – it’s a turkey meatloaf – mmmmm). We saw “Being There” staring Peter Sellers. It is an older movie, but really good. I had seen it before, and it turns out Ashlan had as well. That didn’t matter, it is full of nuance and little bits that can be found if you watch, and more importantly, listen closely. We highly recommend this picture be added to your Netflix, Blockbuster or Scarecrow Video account.

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