It’s Sunday evening, and as I look back on the weekend, I did a lot of what I often do, which is not much.

I did enjoy watching two of three Lobo baseball games played against the Air Force Academy up in Colorado Springs. The scores of the three games, all won by UNM, were 19-5, 24-16, and 16-7. That means UNM SCORED 59 RUNS IN 3 GAMES. It was just crazy.

It was crazy because at the end of the THIRD INNING of the second game, the score was 15-12, with Air Force in the lead after scoring 9 RUNS in an inning. 9 RUNS. And the two teams had scored 27 RUNS in just three innings. Heading into the ninth inning, the two teams are TIED however, at 16-16, and you think it’s gonna be a tense ending. Until UNM gets up to bat and drives in 8 RUNS. The game ends, 40 RUNS and 52 HITS later, with a Lobo 24-16 win.

So Air Force weathers this tough second loss to UNM yesterday, and enter the top of the 8th in today’s game. The Lobo bats have been relatively quiet, and Air Force is up 7-4, and things seem to be going pretty well. Until Carl Stadjuhar homers. Followed by Jack Zellner. Followed by walks, a triple, and a few singles. 13 batters and 8 RUNS later, Air Force is in a hole, down 15-4. They can do nothing in the bottom of the 8th, and for good measure, the Lobos tack on 4 more runs in the 9th. That’s 12 RUNS IN TWO INNINGS.

Just ridiculous. Just ridiculous.

I love Lobo baseball.

My sister was good enough to text me this morning to go with her and her husband and exchange student Merlin to Albuquerque’s Fiery Food and Barbecue Show over at Sandia Casino’s ballrooms early this afternoon. She got me up and out of the house, and I took the camera to take a few pics if I felt creative.

The show was a busy event, but a vendor couple I talked to who were new to the show were a little disappointed. The turnout was good, they said, but people tried product but did not buy it ike they had expected. I tried to encourage them that people grab cards and contact vendors they liked after the event, but I don’t know. I hope that’s the case.

Rules for immolation.

The nuclear CaJohn Chupacabra Hot Sauce that won my Gold Medal for the day is in that innocuous bottle on the right.

We had a good time. We tried a number of good salsa’s, but CaJohn’s Chupacabra Hot Sauce took the award for the most nuclear stuff I tried. That stuff started out slow and mild enough and then it blew up in my throat like 30 seconds later- a fantastic exhaust cloud blasting out of of my eyes and nose. Just like you want a hot sauce to do.

Spook, from Atomic City Foods and a former classmate at the UNM Business School, brought his brand of fire to the show.

I saw an old classmate of mine from the MBA program at UNM who was there offering his hot sauce versions. A Los Alamos resident and an employee of the labs up there, Spook’s sauce company name is clever enough: Atomic City Foods. And it doesn’t hurt his company address is on Trinity Drive.

It’s now 8:30 PM and I have a mild headache and I urped a little bit of that fire stew from today. I better settle down.

Oh- and in Spring Training over in Arizona, I there have been three Cub grand slams hit in three days (Bryant, Contrares, Almora). I think the Cubs are ready to move on into the real games.

It was a fiery and fun day.