Three days. I’ve decided that three days is the perfect length of time for a weekend. Four days at work, three days at home. Why hasn’t anyone else figured this out? I’m allowed to work 9-80s if I want, and take every other Friday off. In practice, however, this doesn’t really work out so well. It’s nice to know the offer is there, but when no one else in your office takes advantage of the schedule, it makes it hard for me to do so without missing meetings, sims, and other actions. Next week it will be back to five days at work and only two at home, and Monday morning will always come too soon.
On Saturday night, Jose and I went to the Rockets game using the tickets I got him as a Christmas present. I hadn’t been to a Rockets game since they moved to the Toyota Center, so it was fun to see them in the not-so-new-anymore arena. We had a great time, and it turns out that I like basketball more than I thought. It probably helped that they were playing the defending-champion San Antonio Spurs, so the arena was sold out and the atmosphere — especially in the 4th quarter — was like that of a playoff game. The Rockets won by two points, so we went home happy and immediately bought tickets for another game this weekend. If they were cheaper, we’d have bought one of the 6-game packages but dang, basketball tickets are way more expensive than baseball tickets. A single 6-game Rockets package with upper deck seats along the sideline costs almost as much as my 27-game Astros season ticket package cost last year. And our Astros seats, though in the upper deck, were behind the plate and thus not crappy.
The rest of the weekend was pretty quiet. Jen and Gavin had us over for dinner and board games on Sunday night, and yesterday I had a girls day with Jen and Becca — we got pedicures and went to see 27 Dresses, which was was suitably cheesy and romantic. I also rode my bike for the first time since September. I know this because it still had the flat tire that I got while riding in Austin with Leila when we went up for Austin City Limits. Ha! It took me forever to change the tube, but finally I got everything set up inside on my trainer (I was just not loving the idea of riding outside in the wind and cold) and rode for almost an hour. My butt hurts because of it. This is what I get for taking such a long break from cycling!
Sarah- Manny and I often get free Rockets tix- they usually come in sets of 4 and we always have a hard time finding another couple to go. Now that I know y’all like the games and don’t mind the drive up too much I’ll let you know next time we’ve got seats. And they are *good* seats most of the time.
I love basketball! I’m so upset that the Sonics might leave Seattle.
Anyway, the trick with tickets is that often they have specials. Sometimes you can find these specials on your actual ticket (if you bought them online, look at the PDF).
Then, when you buy tickets, they’ll have multiple locations where you can buy, and under some it’ll say something like “Tuesday special.”
I have found that you can almost always guess the password – for the above, it would probably be TUESDAY. This will usually get you tickets in the lower half for $30 or less, and upper half even cheaper.
I love basketball, it’s one of the few sports that I love to watch (even on TV). But, I agree, the tix are pretty expensive and the hubby is a seating snob and refuses to sit in the nosebleed section. Haha!