!89853465 Greetings, everyone. Just a quick blogging update as the days pick up in pace prior to the US Open: Today, I'm going on some kind of boat ride with captain Venus Williams. From what I can make out, it's a promotion for her deal with the makers of a new sports drink (just what the world needs!), Powerade Zero. I guess these folks are serious - they'll be running free ferry service from the East Side of Manhattan to Queens, and then a free bus to the National Tennis Center, aka the USTABJKNTC - for the duration of the Open. I'll scope it out, get a few thoughts from Venus, and get back to you with a report later today.
Meanwhile, I'm a little bummed tonight because I promised my boy Luke that if he did four days of summer math homework,he could have the Lego Indiana Jones video game (for Windows) that he's been jabbering on about for a month now. Well, he finally fulfilled his requirements and I bought the game, only to find it won't load or run right on any of our laptops; one of them doesn't have a DVD capable CD, although it plays audio CDs just fine. Another won't recognize the disk in the drive. Our best one loads the game off the DVD drive, installs the software (the game is almost 4 gigs) and then tells me it can't run unless I disable the detected "emulators" and "virtual drive(s)."
I have no idea what they're talking about, but if anyone of you have a clue, please email me via the contact tab.
-- Pete