First things first, I have never been more ashamed to be from Louisiana than I am today: William Jefferson (D-LA), who I toed the line in denouncing in my blog back in November, was indicted today on federal bribery & corruption charges.

I will not address that topic for another couple of days, so that I don't post anything I will later regret. Just know that it did not go unnoticed.

We won a game I didn't expect to win: Riverside is having an off year, it would seem...

Riverside  1 0 0 1 0  2
FBC-Kenner 5 5 4 4 X 18

I went 1-3 with a run scored.

Grounded out 4-3 to lead off the bottom of the second inning.

Grounded to short, yet beat the late throw, (and eventually scored) in the third inning

Grounded out 3-1 to lead off the bottom of the fourth inning.

Yeah, Riverside is a lot better than that usually, but not this year.

Our winning percentage is now .900 (4-0-1), which, if I say so myself, is one of the softest .900's ever. ONLY if we win the next two games will I believe that we are that good.

To justify the category, I must tell you what happened Thursday. Thursday, I did a habitual check of my "to get" list at Newegg, and I noticed the total price had dropped by about $240. "Uh oh", I think, and surprise, surprise, Newegg decided to pull the graphics card I picked out. I panic, and start rifling through ASUS' website to find another vendor: 5 O'Clock computers. Considering myself fortunate, I bought a card right then and there.

Behold, the ASUS EN7950GT 512MB DDR3 Splendid card. [gallery]

My buddy Terrance (more than likely not his real name), who encouraged me to get the XFX equivalent, says this graphics card has as much processing power as my current machine. I could install this into my current box and it'd be twice as good.

I won't do that, however, for two reasons.

1) It'd be an insult to the card.

2) The current box doesn't have any PCI-e x16 slots, necessary for the installation of this card. Yes folks, I'm THAT far behind the curve.

-KIE