Failure on the homefront

An idea came to me this morning about what I can do to my room to make it less-cluttered. When I will have time and energy to actually see if it will work, I haven't the foggiest idea. Probably sometime next week, when the schools are closed and I have a couple days off from the store as well. I'm sure updates will follow.

Because of an historical event on today's date, I have begun a new book. Reading The Pirate Coast will no doubt help pass time until I can pick up Harry Potter again. Tick, Tock. While the last thing I needed was to start reading yet another book, I don't really care, and I'll just have to deal with catching up in the others at a later time.

MSNBC fails. It fails big time. So much so that I infact may swear off U.S. Olympic coverage for the rest of the Games. It is just not the cable affliates that suck, NBC also plunders to the depth of my ratings. I watched prime-time coverage for the first time yesterday, and in an hour's time, I saw the six minutes it took for the speed-skating relay and about four mogul skiers. The rest of the time were filled with commercials and player profiles. No one really cares. People do care however, when the channel is at a commercial break WHILE the game is going on and we can only see an awesome goal through replay technology. And some of us might actually care if Russia kicks the shit out the Swedes. So shut up and show the damn coverage. I feel even more fortunate that I have CBC coverage and the comforting sights and sounds of Ron MacLean to lead me through Torino highlights.