Living in New Mexico, I’ve spent a fair amount of time outside, and I’ve learned when I am outside to frequently look up. New Mexico puts on some wonderful sky shows with its endless vertical expanses of deep blue and sculpted whites. The clouds have always drawn my eyes. They provide a drama all...
Read more →Cry, but do not quake. In the end, we are droplets dripping into the same sea. Spirit to spirit, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Light takes flight, and dark sloughs off until the next spark, the next miraculous burn, the next colorful comet. But we, our incandescence done, commune with the Maker, our...
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Tonight after work, I went by the Toyota dealership on Alameda because the part to fix my inner door handle came in. In Work Day (now updated with photos), I described starting the process of fixing the busted outer handle on my truck’s driver side door. I had the new handle installed and the...
Read more →After yesterday’s post, I had a little time today to follow through with an inquiry on Google about a Manager WAR statistic, and sure enough, several other baseball fans had the same question. It turns out one fan even suggested such a metric. Adam Darowski (adarowski), a current contributor to SBNation and sabermetrician, wrote...
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There was a brief kerfuffle in the Cubs media room last night before Chicago starter John Lackey stepped into- and earned- his 7th loss of the year in New York. Lackey, the crazy-eyed charger in Chicago’s stable of previously stalwart starters, is off this year, and in 13 starts, the elder pitcher is 4-7...
Read more →I’m grateful I got too and through work today. After last night, which involved ghost smells in my nose, a fever, aching long muscles and a dream about ID numbers that repeated over and over, when I awoke this morning and the fever was gone, my mouth tasted like bile and I didn’t want...
Read more →I don’t have a lot to say today. The day started fine and I was enthusiastic about completing some other projects, and then after lunch I took my scheduled antibiotic- and I’ve felt nauseous, loopy and achy ever since. My writing hopes for the day were flushed as I tried to nap about three...
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Today was a Saturday well spent, at least as far as I go. I usually spend them doing little productive. I’m a very poor maintenance person. That said, I had two main goals on my list, and I wasn’t sure if I’d get them done. The first, cutting back the rose bushes in the...
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I try to remember when Ishqa was little. I don’t know if I have any pictures of him as a little one. But one day he wasn’t there- not even the idea of him as a pet. And the next day he was. He was a pound kitty when I got him, like each...
Read more →Truth is, you usually don’t go to the dentist and spend an entire afternoon in the chair and have a root canal and leave feeling richer. But today it happened, and here’s why. I knew I was going to have something done on my 2nd lower left molar (18) because the appointment was set...
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This evening was a nice departure from my normal weeknight routine of plopping on the couch and watching the Cubs. The Cubs played, yes, but somehow I pulled myself away from them- sort of- to do something productive. Nearly a week ago, my employers were saying goodbye to a nice large wooden table that...
Read more →With too few reasons, I get down and defeated so easily at times. After watching this video this evening, I thought there was nothing better I could post today. “After I lost my hearing, I gave up. But I wanted to do more with my life than just give up…” And I probably need...
Read more →I’ve had a pretty good run. I didn’t even have a first cavity until up about two years ago. Prior to that, a decision was made that my wisdom teeth needed to come out when I was about forty, far far into the game at that point. Well, about two weeks ago it began....
Read more →Take the parts Stir them in Here is your yearbook Here are the dog hairs Here is sand from that beach October 4, 1992 An autographed baseball A wedding program Playbill from Aida Reunion photos Ticket stub Story stub A book about the Cubs Handwritten note Unpleasant words Half smile half frown Gas stations...
Read more →Sometimes I think I spend so much time reminiscing on here because I struggle to really remember much that has happened in my life. In recent years, much of my life has buried beneath baseball and boardgame stuff and work. At least that’s what I tell myself. And then I sit down to write...
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It’s the start of a new month already- the sixth month of the year. 5 are in the books. There is always the question: “Am I growing?” I don’t know. I’ve been good to get a blog post up daily for 5 months straight. I am not sure if you count that as progress....
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