Beltane Early Growth Moon
Cord cutters. That’s Kate and me. We signed off Comcast cable a year plus ago and haven’t missed it. We do have Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Premier which keep movies and certain TV shows available, but at times we want to watch them, not according to schedules and with none of the hardware of Tivo.
Except for today. The Indy 500. Sometimes I watch it; sometimes I don’t. Today Kate suggested we go to a sports bar since we couldn’t get it here. We did that. And it was fun. We watched about 80 laps at Tanner’s, had breakfast/lunch and headed back around 12:00, 12:15.
I came downstairs and discovered that I could follow the remaining laps with four screens on my computer, each one with the on-screen camera feed of a key driver. I finished watching Ed Carpenter (Naptown boy, 21, finished 10th after winning the pole), Helio Castroneves (3 time winner who finished in the top five), Hunter-Reay (who lead most of the last laps, but lost out in a heart breaker, losing the lead between two yellow flags, the last one up through the end of the race) and Marco Andretti (of the storied Andretti clan, who, after 90 plus starts have won only once).
It was a compelling way to watch the race with the standings running across the top like ticker tape. That’s what I did with the last three hours. Now for a nap.