Good news about Maron being on AAR next week. Will he be on Monday? Maybe I can actually listen live. I’ll get the chat room ready to go, in case anybody wants to live chat during the show (although, based on recent activity, there might not be many people out there).

In other good news, DirecTV 11 should be parked more or less in its final orbit some time today. Another 3 weeks to a month of testing and tweaking, and I’ll hopefully have local HD channels, and some more national HD channels (at least anther HBO, and I think a few more are set to come on board). Got to watch Apollo 13 on HD Net Movies last night, and it was great (it was the most trouble Bill Paxton had, until he got three wives on Big Love). There’s a scene at the beginning where they’re watching Neil Armstrong step out onto the moon. If you weren’t here on Earth when that happened, you can’t truly comprehend what that was like to watch it right there on the teevee. Ah, the good old US of A really used to be something, back in the day.

Been doing a lot of computing at work. Makes the day go fast, but I haven’t had a chance to keep up on all the goings-on that are going on. Back to the shit hole today, though, so maybe I’ll be able to keep you guys on your toes.

Later.