UngsungBlog: A (Fantasy) Sports Blog

Quick-hitters:

- How bored am I this Saturday afternoon? I’m watching Golf in Hi-Def!!!

(Hey, Tiger Woods is kicking butt. That makes it OK, right?)

- I need a new cookware set. I was thinking about buying this cheapy set at Linens ‘n Things for $59.99 - a 25% off coupon (205200000007), - a $10 MIR + a free knife set. I dropped by LNT yesterday, after going to Costco (more on that later), and saw the cookware in person.

It sucked. Talk about thin! Then again, what was I to expect from a ~$30-40 cookware set? It probably would have lasted a year or two at the most, given how often I cook. I also dropped by Macy’s, and found a nice 10-piece Tools of the Trade (sorry, no link) stainless steel/copper bottom set for $79. We were trying to find this 14-piece set, but had no luck. Anyway, I was impressed with the density of the cookware, although I wasn’t a fan of the covers. Too bad the online deal wasn’t available in store.

- So I swung by Costco yesterday, looking for some freaking MexiCoke. To my dismay, they didn’t have any!!!

(me cries)

To soothe my sorrows, I got some cinnamon raisin bagels, cinnamon raisin bread, and a bunch of cream cheese. I also got a big bag of shredded cheese, which I’ll be using to make some more enchiladas (thanks again, Amy!).

Or maybe I should grill up some hamburgers.

Ooooh…I have a couple New York strips in the freezer.

Eh, I feel like chicken rather than beef.

(Wait…I have some chicken that I can barbecue).

- So after a day or two of deliberations, I finally broke down and bought parts for my first brand new computer in four years. As I mentioned in my last blog entry, I could have gone real cheap (in the low $200s), or mid- to high-end ($400+).

Of course, I decided to be smart and compromised. I picked up a much better motherboard (the Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H), a middle-of-the-pack AMD CPU (X2 64 Brisbane 4000+ @ 2.1Ghz), a Maxtor/Seagate rebadged 300+20GB Hard Drive, a PCI IDE controller card (Syba SD-ATA133R; I need it for the two IDE hard drives that I’m keeping from the computer that needs upgrading) and some filler material (a FAR PSU, some blank DVDs, and a FAR AntiVirus program). Total cost? $265.10. All I need now is some extra RAM ($22 each, after rebate) and I’ll be all set.

(Now to figure out how I’m going to afford this new toy :P)

- And finally, here’s one unique way to lose a million dollars. It turns out that a White City, Oregon, woman bought a lottery ticket that won $1 million. Too bad she used the credit card of her then-boyfriend’s dead mother.

Prosecutors said Christina Goodenow, of White City, used a credit card that belonged to her then-boyfriend’s dead mother to buy a winning $1 million Scratch-It ticket in Oct. 2005.

Goodenow asked lottery officials to keep her win quiet, claiming to be a victim of domestic violence. But police learned of the crime about two weeks later, as Goodenow continued to use the stolen credit card.

On Thursday, Jackson County Judge Ray White ruled that the winnings were the proceeds of illegal activity and must be forfeited under Oregon law.
Goodenow pleaded no contest to forgery, cheating and aggravated theft.

Ouch!

Question: You just won a million dollars in a lottery. WTF were you doing still using the stolen credit card?!?!?!?!? And how the heck did the woman get in possession of the stolen credit card in the first place?

By the way, I never knew “cheating” was a crime punishable by prison time.

Ms. Goodenow alleges that the ticket was purchased via cash, and not with the stolen credit card. Good luck proving that. Though I do have to ask–and Krunk brought this up a couple nights ago–how did the judge come to the conclusion that the winning ticket was, undeniably, purchased with the stolen credit card? I could understand if the lottery ticket was like a SuperLotto ticket, but is it even possible to track the purchases of scratch-off tickets?

Anyway, note to self: do not buy lottery tickets with a stolen credit card. Um…

Happy blogging!

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