Lockout Shmockout?

Two posts within the same month means that I am tripping.  I think it's because a laptop I bought broke after 25 days of buying it (refurbished mind) and me thinking I had a year warranty suddenly realising it was actually 30 days and that I was in fact very lucky it broke so quickly.  I just had an email saying I was getting my refund so at least it isn't getting sent back to me telling me I'm wrong and suck.  I assume this is what you get for buying a well speced laptopfor £230 - saying that my living-on-the-edge-mind is to buy one of the same value again and hope it too breaks and then I will get another and so on for maybe a year or two until I've sample every laptop and have lost important files (I have no such files) and unbacked up photos continually for a year.

Moving on from that sorry tale, the current predicament is that my annual fear of the months between June and October, while the NBAseason isn't on, is in full swing with the Internet becoming a really dull place.  In fact the probable reason I got obsessed with buying a new computer was because finding deals and spending money was my replacement for basketball interneting.

This is all amplified due to the lockout, where no basketball is played, everyone wants more money and no one wants to compromise to benefit me, which means there's a good chance there will be no season for even longer or even at all.  I'd imagine this will make me go back to Baseball :( although that ends in September I think and St Louis' star player has a broken arm or some such misery, and I can't trust Liverpool to make me happy.  Any sport ideas would be well received, specifically if they have a lot of stats I can geek over.

On a side note, this book is awesome and doesn't require imagination like a story book

particularly if you love numbers and money, not at all if you don't :-|

 Speaking of economics, I made my too patient girlfriend go here with me when we had like 1 day in London: