RIP to our Computer

You know, there are the kinds of phone calls you just don’t want to get. Jim left me a voice mail late yesterday before I left work, and I could tell immediately that something was wrong. I was bracing myself for the worst, but he said that he didn’t know what he did as he was trying to install the new read/write CD drive on the computer, but he fried the motherboard. After I heard the voice mail, I realized that as upset as he was it could have been a lot worse. I thought he had an accident, or something big at home broke (other than the computer), or all kinds of things were racing through my mind. But it was the computer – ok that can be fixed.

I can’t believe it is the end of March. The first quarter of 2009 is gone, and hopefully we are on our way to an economic recovery (of sorts) if cooler heads will prevail and the spending spree that our government seems to be on will end. Of course yesterday, the announcement comes down that the white house has asked the CEO of GM to step down. Now, I know that technically he can’t be fired by the President, but part of me is wondering just who they think they can fire. Do we really think the government is capable of running GM, selling Chrysler to Fiat, or handling anything else when they don’t have their own house in order? I hope we are not witnessing the destruction of capitalism and trading it for socialism. These are scary things to be witnessing. Although, I think the overreaction to the AIG bonuses and a clearly unconstitutional retro tax on things is much worse because it is clearly unconstitutional to pass a law to penalize or tax someone for something that has already happened. If they can pass a tax like that, there would be nothing to stop passage of laws or taxes to be applied retro-actively. This is insanity!

However, I digress. This has been a very busy week, and I was disappointed at the basketball on Sunday as the games were just not that good. Saturday’s games were really good – especially the Villanova/Pitt game. Villanova almost blew it at the end, but managed to score the winning basket at the end of the game (after they left one of the Pitt players standing underneath the basket to make an easy shot to tie). I am looking forward to going to my sister’s house next Friday for Easter weekend. I am taking a day off (wow I am going to get behind even with just one day), so that we can have a long weekend. The only bad part is that Sunday the 12th will be the final round of the Masters and I will want to be watching it all, but we’ll have to drive home. I don’t know who came up with the DVR, but I love that thing and will be DVRing golf so I can make sure not to miss any of the action!