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ANCIENT.
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Holy
balls, I'm getting old. In the past month, I've been afflicted with the
following:
INJURY: Pulled muscle in lower back. SUSTAINED: I
yawned and stretched while having my morning coffee. STATUS: It went
away after a few days.
INJURY: Sharp pain in the left side of
abdomen. Pulled liver maybe? SUSTAINED: Throwing a ball in from the
outfield. STATUS: I almost took myself out of the game. After about a
week, it finally healed, whatever it was.
INJURY: Severely
stiff neck with upper back pain. SUSTAINED: I'd rather not say at this
point in time. Beth's mom reads this. STATUS: It lasted only a day or
so, but let me tell you this: it's not easy catching a fly ball when you
can't even look up.
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SPORTSGEEKS.
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THE CAPITAL PUNISHER.
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Good story: Coco and I went to
see a Nationals' game last week and who did we happened to run into at the
Vienna Metro Station? Senators'
great Frank Howard. No shit. He was taking the Metro to the game just like
us little people. We got to talking with
him and then we ended up sitting next to him on the train to RFK Stadium. It
was pretty damn cool. We chatted about the Nationals (of course), the D.C.
area supporting a team, old-time ballparks, his job (he scouts for the
Yankees), the Metro system, and stuff like that. He was the nicest guy
you'd ever meet. He even offered up his seat to a lady who was standing. The three of us talked all the way to the ballpark. Funny
thing is, no one recognized him until we got to the stadium. Just your
average 6' 7" ex-ballplayer superstar.
Of course, since Coco and I are both nuts about baseball and its history, we were quite geeked
up about having basically a private audience with one of the greatest
home run hitters of the 60's and the most popular Washington Senator of
all time (with apologies to Walter Johnson). He was Rookie of the Year
in 1960 and twice led the American League in home runs.
And if you're ever at RFK, look up into the upper deck above left and center field. You'll
see several seats painted white. That's where some of Howard's home runs landed.
Pretty awesome.
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ORDER? WHAT ORDER?
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I
think I've jinxed the internet. After seamlessly ordering most everything
I need off of the internet in the past couple of years, I've had a
series of problems getting stuff delivered lately. Let's see: I ordered
some dog prezzies for Luke for Christmas that never came (and it took 4
months to get my stinking refund), I ordered a dryer part from Sears
that's still in limbo between their warehouse and the Sears store (after
2 weeks), and Beth ordered me a Brian Schneider jersey that apparently
doesn't exist (3 weeks ago). Fate? Conspiracy? Bad luck? Who knows?
Maybe it's just a sign telling me to get off my lazy ass and walk into a
store once in awhile.
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WERTHER'S.
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Ancient,
The
Capital Punisher, Pricey, Werther's, Mental Deficiencies, Sportsgeeks,
and Order? What Order?. |
Why
do a lot of older people looooooooove Werther's Original candies? Is it
because they've been around forever (the candies, not the
oldsters)? Beth and I joke about it a lot, but then I started thinking about it, I
can't figure out why they're so popular with elderly folks. And I don't really have any good theories either. I did a
web search for the answer, but my Google-fu failed me. Anyone?
(Why do I suddenly feel like Jerry Seinfeld in the
Seinfeld episode where he does his stand-up routine at an elementary
school assembly? "Hey kids, what's the deal with homework?
Booooooooo!")
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MENTAL DEFICIENCIES.
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PRICEY.
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Speaking
of Seinfeld, I was thinking of inventing a game based on the
series. Using the episode guide on the back of the DVD collection, each
player has to come up with quotes from the episodes. For each episode,
Player 1 has to come up with a quote and then Player 2 has to come up
with a different quote and so on, back and forth. Once a player can't come up with a new
quote, the other player gets a point.
I spend my time thinking of things
like this because I'm two sandwiches short of a picnic, obviously.
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Wedding Update: Why the hell is wedding photography so damned expensive?
I mean, $2K just for some pictures taken with a digital camera? And then
you have to pay extra for the reprints. Sheesh. That's unbelievable.
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2000-2005 by gja.
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