On Sunday the Panthers played the Saints. We woke up to the Observer headline: Panther’s Favorite Player Returns as a Saint. Dave predicts that Kasey will kick a field goal in the last minute to beat us. At least that was wrong!! We save the paper to PDF and prepare to go on a boat cruise on Pasco Bay out of Portland, ME.
We were gazing at our 7th or 8th island community (see next post) and I get a text from Keith and Diane: Can we park at your house for the game?... I text and call Mollie to make sure our spot is clear. During these exchanges I tell both Mollie and Keith and Diane to keep us up on the game via text. Of course the first text from both of them is about the interception on the first play from scrimmage… yuck.
By half time we have finished our cruise and we are eating lobster at a roadside stand in South Portland. Everyone around us is trying to get home by 4 to watch New England play.
The Third Quarter finds us in the grocery store buying cat food and coffee…. The staples of life! Now the game is getting exciting and of course I get TWO texts for every play. The guy with the cart beside me is laughing his ass off!!
The Fourth Quarter though of course is the MOST exciting and includes DEB’S Two Minute Drill. We have now re-connected with the RV and are heading toward Boston (between multiple texts)… As we settle in, Dave says, “I wonder if we could get WBT’s live feed?”... OK you have to picture this… There are MULTIPLE STEPS… and between each one, I’m stopping to get more and more texts from Mollie and Diane or is it Keith, we don’t know for sure.
· First I have to make my way to the bedroom and find the “MiFi” which is in a drawer that chronically “sticks.” I’m bracing myself and trying to get it level, to lift up and out as the RV rocks on!… OK… now according to both Keith and Mollie, we just went ahead!
· I climb into the front seat and turn on the computer and the MiFi. We are heading into the sun and I keep losing my cursor. Mollie now tells me that the Saints had to punt. Dave says, “Hurry, Hurry.”
· I log into WBT and have to launch their program. We get the cursory ad for CPCC and then it goes blank. Dave could barely hear it so he hands me yet another piece of technology that runs the speakers of my laptop through the radio… for the uninitiated it looks like a cassette with wires... I figure this out and WBT has crashed. We try one more time and surmise that they don’t have the streaming rights for the game.
· Now we must find another source. Meanwhile Mollie informs us that we too have punted and the Saints are on their 11. We try the NFL site… the sun is a real bitch and I can’t find their radio feed. Mollie now tells us the Saints are 3rd and 1 on our 17….I try the NFL site. There might be a radio feed but I can’t find it in the sun. I'll let your imagination wander to what Dave is saying during all of this....
· Keith is first to tell us the Saints score…. Now I’m trying the Carolina Panther site. No live radio feed that I can find, but we do get the little field that shows us the time and who has the ball, where.
· Mollie now informs us there is 30 seconds left and we have the ball midfield. But my little field on the screen shows us going backwards.
· Mollie is first to inform me of the loss, with Keith less than 1 minute behind.
· We try the WBT live feed for the post game show and sure enough it pops right up, and now works perfectly. We listen to it until the battery dies on my computer.
· I AM EXHAUSTED!! (and Mollie and Keith and Diane have thumbitis from texting so much! Thanks guys!)
I recover while Dave pulls over at an empty weigh station to talk to Ben (yes, he is still workin!), and climb up to plug my computer into the transformer. Meanwhile poor Myrtle (our GPS) goes (to quote Dave) “ape-shit” in the “Big Dig” and has taken us into downtown Boston. As I write this, we just passed the “Occupy Boston” tent village!!... Maybe we should join them, we have a hell of a big tent!...
Stay tuned….
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