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With this no-nagging edict you all got veeeery quiet.
and they can’t find their way across.
to bring up McKimmon Center for Extension & Continuing Education.
Time for Grey’s Anatomy.
From 2 cafes ago (can’t seem to keep up anymore in between all the naps and slacking off that are taking up so much of my time these days) you are right that I’m leaning towards accepting the job just cuz I don’t seem to have the gene where you can turn down a job when you are out of work with bills to pay. However, a lot can happen between now and actually starting so I’m going to stay open and keep on looking around. (Sounds like I’m still vascillating?)
So it’s no nagging. neener, neener, neener. 😛
grrr… it’s a sign … make the switchover.
I would say something like we’ve been telling you, but that would be nagging, so i won’t. 🙂
so you didn’t say what you thought of the game …?
I thought it was a lot of shaketing and didn’t see any fights, but I switched channels for a minute and the World 2006 Dart Championship was on and I couldn’t miss that.
what’s shaketing?
OK I can’t spell. They guys with razors on their shoes and moving around on ice.
Believe it or not. I’ve ice skated before.
just some friendly teasing 😉
I didn’t know they had ice skating rinks in the south. or was that when you were in Germany?
Actually it was in Salzburg, Austria. I did pretty well until I had too many Gluweins.
I’m picturing you skating round and round, holding hands with a pretty fraulein … what a pretty picture. I’m editing out all the falls.
Actually I was skating around with a pretty nurse and the only picture I have of it was of a fall that looks like I should have broken my neck. Gluwein saved the day though.
Lol 🙂
Darts totally trumps ice hockey … I woulda stayed w/ that too </snark> 🙂
I had to keep switching between that and a Womens 9-ball tournament. It was an exciting sports day.
I didn’t know you were so into darts FM. Maybe you ought to start a Froggy Bottom darts tournament.
I used to play constantly for a long time. 301 or 501. Owned I think they were 16 gram accudarts.
A long time ago if it was a bar game I got really good at it. You should see me play pool.
there’s a pool table around here somewhere …
are you a poker player too?
No, no matter what I ever played I never gambled. That bug never bit me. Never learned the game and I’m to easy to read anyway.
I’m not into gambling either. I’d rather just spend the money on something tangible. A dress, a book, a CD. Something.
I’ve never understood throwing away your money that way. I’m like you, I want something for my money that’s going to be there for awile.
I forgot to add. In pool whenever I won, which at one time was a lot, I’d let you know how good I was. If I lost then I say, it’s only a game. Sort of insufferable.
sort of typical 😉
Yea but I would also let the other person know what a great shot they had made or what a good game they played. Luckily I never had a pool cue upside my head.
Manners, it’s all about manners. 🙂
so you politely beat the pants off of them?
That’s the only way to do it. Plus at that point I did some drinking and I always was a cuddly drunk. Loved everybody and would never think of fighting.
Anyone care to join me for a Jameson + Coke?
Can I skip the coke part? I mean, why ruin good Irish whisky.
But of course.
I’m not really drinking Jameson with the coke anyway. I’ve got some Old Crow left over from a get together that I’m trying to struggle through.
But for you Mary, you can have some Jameson.
I hope you don’t mind if it is on the rocks.
no prob.
looks like your braves beat up the mets today.
And your Cards over the fish too 🙂
The Braves have pulled to within 7 games. Watchout NY!
Just wait until you get that voodoo doll. They won’t know what hit them.
the fish … they’re just a sad team.
Omir hasn’t talked much baseball lately. the Mariners must not be doing well.
I think some other loyal Braves fan must have gotten ahold of a voodoo doll as well. I mean, really…Zambrano out for the year? Sounds like black magic to me!
Don’t cry for the fish, they’ll live in the cellar for the next 5 or 6 years then win another World Series.
I was out in Seattle a couple of years ago, and made my way down to SafeCo for a Mariners game. That is a great stadium. The place goes f’ing nuts when Ichiro comes up.
certainly unexpected, especially for Zambrano.
nice picture – yours? and if so, you were sitting higher than the foul pole.
Yep, it’s my picture. And it’s the fair pole :p
Actually I usually try to sit in the view boxes on the top level but as low as you can get. The seats are better than general admission but not as expensive as sitting down on the field.
That picture was taken from the nosebleed seats in right field, over where Ichiro plays. Ej’s right, the crowd goes nuts every time Ichiro comes to the plate. Things get even crazier if he gets a hit and crazier than that if he scores or drives in a run.
Safeco is a very cool field. If you look carefully toward the left of the picture you can barely see the wheels that help roll the roof when the rain starts. (The roof is retracted in the picture, off to the right of the picture.)
Yeah, the seats weren’t great, but from what I saw of SafeCo, there isn’t a bad seat in the joint.
I took some video footage of a couple of Ichiro at bats, it didn’t turn out that well but you can hear the crowd roaring in the background as he hits a soft grounder to the 2nd baseman 🙂
None of the seats are horrible. The worst I ever had were for a playoff game in 2001. A small portion of the field was blocked by the foul pole and I missed at least one catch because we couldn’t see beyond the restraining wall to where Ichiro was right up against the fence, but all in all it was a very good seat, and since it was the only playoff game I’ve ever been to I’m not complaining.
Well, they won today after dropping four in a war.
They are pretty much as bad as they were last year. The only improvement lately has been that Eddie Guardado (the Mariner closer) has been relieved of his duties and the M’s are going to be closing by committee for a while. For the record, this is a sign that a baseball team is not doing well.
They won today, but I slept through most of it and was listening to a hockey game during the rest.
no, closing by committee isn’t a good sign.
Which only proves the point that pitchers are total head cases. Because why it matters if you have one closer, 4 possible closers or a starting pitcher who could pitch 9 innings is something that exists only in their heads.
Even so it seems to make a pitcher more effective when he knows that his job is to get a left-handed pitcher out, or eat up innings toward the end of a game, or to get three outs in the ninth. I can’t explain it. I just know it happens.
It’s very weird. Eddie Guardado is usually a reliable a closer as they come, but this year he’s been positively awful. I assume it’s all in his head since the doctors can’t find anything wrong with him. It’s got to be frustrating. One of the big problems a ballplayer faces is that when he screws up, he screws up on a national stage, in front of 30,000 people live and untold others watching on TV or listening on the radio. Then again they get paid pretty good for it.
no one can explain it. it’s because pitchers are head cases. If they THINK they’ll be more effective that way they are. Once they THINK that, they can’t change. Close by committee? Freaks them out.
It’s pretty bad when it goes wrong. We’ve had a few pitchers — Bobby Ayala, Freddy Garcia and John Halama come to mind — who had million dollar arms and a two-bit head. Sometimes they were really good, but just as often or more so they would let something get to them and bam, they were worthless from that point.
They’re not as bad as a turn-of-the-century player named Rube Waddell, though. When Waddell was pitching opposing players were known to do things like bring puppies out onto the field or run fire engines past the park, because they knew Waddell would pay more attention to them than he would to the game.
Ah, you drink the whiskey you’ve got instead of the whiskey you’d like to have eh? Actually I bought a bottle of that tonight … it’s kind of the brand we have around when we’re not feeling rich (which is most of the time). Sure, I’d rather have Wild Turkey, Woodford Reserve or any number of other, pricier bourbons, but hey, at $9 a liter, it’s actually not bad! And it does the trick…
Please skip the Coke… blech. 🙂
How ya doing up there?
Sure enough, though it sounds like a Rumsfeld strategy 🙂
I think I’d actually rather drink Old Crow than Woodford Reserve. That stuff just doesn’t sit well with me, for some reason.
If you’re looking for the most bang for you buck, Old Crow or Black Velvet are definitely the way to go.
Well ej, if you ever make it down here, we can treat ya well in that dept then. Ok about the Woodford Reserve… you can have the Crow and I’ll keep the WR for myself.
hehe about the Rumsfeld strategery … that’s about as political as I’ve been all day, for a big switch! Have to take a break from it sometimes.
Well, I think next time I’ll be heading through Iowa will be in August, on my way through to Colorado. If thinks work out, maybe we can figure out a mini-meetup for cheap whiskey drinking 🙂
You’re more than welcome to visit us anytime you’re in the area, as are all the great BooTribbers here in the FBL. Just keep us posted if you think that will be a possibility. The Cabana Room Lounge (our enclosed porch summer lounge) will be fully set up by then, so it will be ready for margaritas, Old Crow or whatever the boisson du jour might be.
Sure, ya havin’ an nice day there?
It has been beautiful out all weekend here. Such a change from the usual, where it is nice all week then gets rainy and cold on the weekends.
How you doin out there, NDD?
It’s been sunny and warm here. Almost not enough wind for kite flying, which is odd for ND this time of year.
I’ll take my usual 27 please.
Does that mean you want 27 drinks or some 27-year aged whiskey?
either, doesn’t matter. Just as long as it 27 of something.
OK, well 27 drinks are going to be way easier to come up with than 27 year aged whiskey. So I have a feeling you are going to be pretty happy by the end of the night!
Hey after a couple of sips I’m already happy.
Any Ultimate updates? Been a while since I’ve talke w/ you about it…
Hey olivia!
Actually I just went to my first tournament of the year (well, excluding early season tourneys in Acapulco and Tempe :), it was just down the road in Battle Creek. Just a one day thing, but we played 5 games. I can barely walk today.
My next tournament is up kinda your way! Gender Blender in Fergus, Ontario, on June 3 & 4.
I can barely walk today
It sucks getting older doesn’t it 😉
Yep. But it especially sucks in the early season. By mid-June this won’t be a problem 🙂
Barry Bonds just struck out. Rock.
Your still a youngter, just wait.
I can barely walk today.
Ah, those are the best! Feeling sore but good too. Other good ones: the hurt you get going down stairs the next day, or having to drive stick shift home after running a triathlon or duathlon!
The GB looks like fun — I know you’ve pointed it out before.
I drive a stick shift, so I know exactly what you mean! I remember a couple years ago on my way back from Cleveland, I had a pulled left hamstring and then hit a traffic jam. If that isn’t hell, I don’t know what is 🙂
Gender Blender is one of my favorite tournaments. It’s really just a huge party where people happen to play ultimate too!
Have you played at all lately?
Yikes! 🙂
I haven’t played since the winter — indoor. (I didn’t like that at all btw.) I’m getting back into running, so I don’t think I’ll have time to play this summer — bummer! 🙂
I can’t wait to hear all about your experiences at GB! 😉
Indoor totally depends on the venue, I’ve found. The place we have our winter league at now is awesome, they’ve got field turf like they’re using in the pro stadiums, and the place is big enough for two full size fields.
But a few years ago we played at this place that had old school astroturf, and wasn’t even big enough for one full size field. It was terrible.
As for GB, I’d say I’ll get pictures, but I think I’d prefer if there are none 😉
I hear ya on the pix … 🙂
I found where we played, that you’d get home and have all these little black pieces of rubber everywhere! In shoes, clothes, hair … it was a mess.
True that. Make sure you shake your socks out, otherwise if the black rubber bits get into the dryer, they’ll fuse themselves to the rest of your clothes!
🙂
Indulged my favorite foolish pleasure today — played baseball with my pickup group in San Francisco. Went a more-than-respectable 2-for-4 at the plate, but, well, let’s just say I didn’t distinguish myself in the field. Our team lost something like 14-6, but it was still a great afternoon. The stains on my baseball pants testify that I’ve finally learned to slide without hurting myself. How’d I learn to do it at this advanced age? The same way I’ve learned almost everything else — by having to master it well enough to teach it.
Awesome. I haven’t played baseball since I was a kid, but I’ll never forget the sliding drills we did. If you learned it on your own, that’s impressive!
When I’m playing ultimate frisbee, people still look at me strangely when I say I’m more comfortable catching with my left hand. It’s an easy way to tell who played baseball when they were younger 🙂
Thanks! Cheers for online resources. Found an online coaching primer, and worked it out from there. Also, some of the other Little League coaches around here had good tips for teaching the kids.
though a bit closer than I would have preferred…but Sharks prevailed 2-1.
Hope we get the NHL refs back tomorrow — I think the WWE refs from Friday’s match at the HP Pavilion decided to stick around a couple of extra days and work Game 1. There was a clothesline on Goc by an Edmonton player that looked like a move out of “Smackdown”…
Okay, got about 24 hours to rest up for tomorrow’s game…
congratulations cali!
One down, three more to go 😉 …
Btw, I’ve got tix to tomorrow’s Sens/Sabres game. They better win! 🙂
We’ll miss that game — going to have an early dinner at Sweet Tomatoes before we come home to watch Sharks/Oilers…
to show that I can stay up just like the big kids.
And so to bed.
were going to post some turtle porn, to liven up this lounge.
g’night.
Thanks for the love earlier. 🙂 I’m putting up a tulip post tonight, so you can check it out tomorrow.
Some pictures before the wedding.
Front of farm house.
Tent about 25 yards away from farm house also for reception.
One of BR’s in farm house
Signature of Mr. Wilson. Our resident ghost. The first date is Jan 1, 1882
I had to include this. On the back of their wedding program this is written:
“Spread love everwhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor…let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.”
Mother Theresa
what a beautiful place!
Have you told us about the resident ghost before? I don’t remember that.
No I don’t think so. Mr. Wilson was a man looking for work after the civil war. From what I’m told my, I don’t know how many greats, but grandparents took him in. He live there the rest of his life. After the civil war the house was basically two room with and open hallway. I forget what they called them.
Anyway, Mr. Wilson had a small house on the farm and lived there until he was very old and dying. My grandparents took him to the house and put him in the top left bedroom. He died there.
When we were kids and came home for Xmas we would sleep in that room. We were always told that if we didn’t behave Mr. Wilson would get us.
When the house was being renovated, his sig was found and it was kept and not painted over because in my family everybody knows Mr. Wilson.
That’s a great story. So Mr. Wilson is a friendly ghost.
Did you kids ever think you heard him?
Of course we heard him. But it’s an old house so any creaking would send us under the covers.
When my friend from MI visited and we stayed out there
I told him the story. I think every creak he heard his eyes popped wide open.
LOL
I love the idea of a family ghost. We don’t have any houses in our family that are old enough to have a ghost.
I’m surprised you stayed in the room if they told you the ghost would get you. When we would visit my great aunt when we were kids, she had two rooms upstairs that were usually shut off. They were under eaves so they were odd shaped. One of them had a storage closet with a small door — not miniature but shorter than usual. We told my little sister that a short little ghost/monster (it changed each time) lived behind the door. She refused to sleep upstairs. Just refused; threw fits. My mom was ready to kill us.
My Grandmother as loving as she was, was the one that would threaten us with Mr. Wilson. It was actually my fathers room when he was growing up. We finally decided that if he made it this far we had nothing to worry about.
It was always old stories to me until they found those sigs. All of a sudden it became very real.
Beautiful, Family Man! I love that bedroom, simple, elegant, uncluttered and geez, you gotta love candles on the nightstand.
And beautiful quote by Mother Theresa.
Good night.
Night SN.
What a beautiful home.
Thanks Olivia.
Lovely house, FM! So this is the place, eh? And you have a ghost too? That is sooo cool. Hope he doesn’t freak George out too much. 🙂
Is there any left for me?
But of course!
Especially when you walk in with a picture like that!
I almost shed a tear at its beauty
but how do you tell what type of beer is going to come out of each one?
a game of roulette I’m willing to play.
Excellent point 😉
Who cares, you try them all.
Manny there’s always plenty left for you. If not I’ll get George out of his jammies and have him go get some.
drinking mood tonight, too much frivolity over the past week. Gotta give the kidneys a break.
that’s beautiful, but I think I’ll just take the coke part of the earlier drink.
like a whole person again? Split personalities can be tiring, especially when it’s of the virtual/real type. 😉
Me?
or
Me?
I’m just kinda tired.
my inner-clock is completely out-of-wack today. I was up till 4/5am both Friday and Saturday. I can’t wait for tomorrow at work :-/
I don’t have any energy but I’m not really tired in a “go to sleep” kind of way.
My inner clock’s going to be a mess all week. I can tell.
How was your w/e?
did a wholelottanuthin’ 🙂 I hear we’re gonna have a tulipy week thanks to your new slew of great photos.
Sometimes that’s exactly what is needed … 🙂
weekend, and yes to the tulipy week. 🙂
Hey Manny, nice to see ya again. Hope you had a fun weekend… I did, even though I didn’t get everything I wanted to plant in the ground, it was very pleasant having 3 days off.
Oh, and thanks a million for that Firefox tip you sent the other night. It has speeded up the page loading appreciably and your instructions were impeccable! Kudos, amigo!
glad the setting change helped. Always glad to do my part to grow the Firefox Revolution.
From here on out, I genuflect to the Holy Chihuahua! Btw, did Bud have a fun weekend too? Toss him a beggin strip for us, will ya?
ahem
earlier he took me for a walk and now is so exhausted has already passed out for the evening. Doesn’t take much to expend his basset energy reserves.
Tell me about exhausted reserves! (See my Rolly escapade note below) Both were outside all day with me and they’ve been very mellow tonight, due to all the sun and fresh air. But they love surveying their little domain and schmoozing the neighbor who gives them treats when she comes home.
Night all. I just noticed it way past my bedtime.
Taking off just when I’m getting going! Oh, but I just remembered… you had several naps today and I had none… so that makes perfect sense (not)! See you tomorrow, Slackeroo!
Did you have a good day — hip feeling better?
It was a very busy day, but also quite satisfying. Got my new sheets washed woo hoo. Had an adventure with Rolly sneaking out while I dashed indoors to put fabric softener in the washer… had to chase him down the block to catch him, as he wouldn’t come when I called. He was a very bad dog today… I think it has something to do with the fact that he is over 14 now and kind of stubborn and hard of hearing. But I still was not pleased to have to do that… I was terrified he’d run out into the big intersection down the block and get hit, because he has absolutely no street smarts at all. But I got him back, and he’s in the dog house with me for the rest of the night. LOL
Before you chide me for no pics of IT let me say that I fully intended to do that, but by the time I had planted 10 Delphiniums, 6 snapdragons, weeded, and watered everything in, it got all overcast and dark, so I said ta hell with it. Chris has tomorrow off, so I’ll ask him to take a few during the day if it’s sunny… more rain is forecast tomorrow night, which is good, actually. Things were getting dryish out there. Did see lots of our volunteer annual seedlings coming up though, esp Bells of Ireland and Purple verbena. I must have pulled a million of those obnoxious purple datura seedlings that are rampant everywhere…
So… I’m physically pooped tonight, but took a long hot shower earlier so the aches are somewhat mollified now. 🙂
Good to hear that Rolly was unscathed … well, other than experiencing the wrath of IVG … 🙂 That is scary when they dash off b/c of traffic etc.
Don’t worry about the picture! Whenever you feel like it is good for me. And you can always just describe it to me b/c that works for me and is less work for you. 🙂
It sounds like you got quite a bit done. Congrats on the Delphinium installation … 🙂
Btw, I’m with you high thread count sheets. We got a new king size bed a few months ago so had to buy new sheets and I splurged b/c they were on sale. I’ll never go back to that rough stuff. 🙂
as the last photo I posted, just an inch or two taller, but it is standing out more now that the tulips are pretty much done. One surprise I didn’t mention yet was that our purple Turk’s Cap Lily we planted fall has broken the ground! It’s supposed to be slow to emerge, but it showed up sometime in the past 2 days. And one of the hibiscus has broken dormancy too!
Here’s some flowers for ya to look at… I was off a bit earlier ordering flowers for Mother’s Day and this is what my sister and I are sending … Fenton Art Glass hand painted vase and all…
Nice pink, with a touch of blue. 🙂 Pretty vase.
Sounds like things are really starting to grow now, and the rain will be a good thing.
Things are really taking off, including the unavoidable tree seedlings (esp maples) and now the maples are dropping their spinners, so I’ll be out there some night after work this week with my shop vac going after those things with a vengeance. We have a huge area that is pretty much covered with pink poppy seedlings, so I took a couple of light and deep blue delphiniums and planted them amongst the poppies, hoping they will bloom at about the same time like they did last year. I have 5 more delphs to plant, then on to the other stuff, such as the trilliums and other perennials we got this past week.
That Turks Cap lily is our first and only lily (don’t care much for them in general) and we’re excited about it. One of the oldest known cultivated lilies that goes back to the early 16th century. (The Dutch, of course were the leaders in that … go figure!)
the pink poppies? … those were really pretty.
I think I’m going to head up to bed w/ the wonderfully soft sheets 😉 … gotta prepare for Monday … blech. 🙂
Have a good night and sweet dreams IVG! See you tomorrow.
Yes, those are from Frank originally, though the seedlings are from those that bloomed last year. Yeah, I’m fading quickly myself, as appears the rest of the folks. You sleep well too, Tulip Princess … I saw you’re going to a hockey game tomorrow! Don’t scream and holler too hard … hehe. 🙂 See you tomorrow as well.
And also a fond goodnight to anyone else still around and/or lurkers! Here comes Monday again! :/
night all
Sounds like you had a busy day too … see you on the flip side, as dada says… or we can just say, see ya later!
Sleep well, and get ready to face another week… grrr. 🙂