I'm not so morbid that I think about how I'll die, but sometimes you see something that puts your mortality right up in your face.

This article details a father's final act. I just have to say that when it's my time to go, I don't think that there is a more noble way to go than this.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4790887&page=1

Yankees fan runs her car through group of Red Sox fans outside a bar because of a baseball argument, killing one. Possibly the worst thing about this story? A "Curse of the Bambino" reference at the end of the article.

I heard an interesting little factoid this morning on the radio. Southwest and JetBlue are slowing their planes to save fuel. They are adding a couple of minutes to their flights, lowering the average airspeed by a few miles per hour, and achieving significant savings. Well, they sounded significant to me, but I don't have to pay JetBlue's Exxon ( Read more... )

The Detroit Free Press has a story about a man whose 7-year old son was removed from his custody because the boy was drinking a hard lemonade at a baseball game. Despite the fact that it was at Comerica Park, the Tigers are under .500, and drinking might be the best course of action for adult fans, that's just not okay for someone who is seven ( Read more... )

Here's a tip: If you have a healthy salad for lunch, you should not succumb to the siren call of the bag of mini-Reese's cups sitting conveniently close at hand.

At least I kept it to single digits. And I'm going to run a few miles tonight.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/04/japanese-ritual.html

I may need to buy tickets to this next year.

Women, I will completely understand if you want to off anyone with a Y chromosome. Between the FLDS (which is not a divisional series of any sort) abuses coming to light, and the Austrian guy who kept his daughter locked in a basement for 24 years and fathered 7 children by her, I would completely understand. That's even before we get to pay ( Read more... )

• Why does my shoulder hurt so much?
• If the Pope is going to draw the kind of crowds they're anticipating to the Washington Nationals' new baseball park, shouldn't they try to sign him?
• This is just embarrassing. And, frankly, a little frightening.
• It's only Wednesday.
• The housing market. I mean, come on, people. I looked at a graph of my home's ( Read more... )

My 3 year-old daughter likes music. She surprised me by singing along with "Collide" one time after hearing it a couple of times. I was going to talk about her singing "Leave the Pieces" by The Wreckers on the way home this evening, either softly and on key, or loudly to her little sister trying to induce laughter. It was the louder rendition that ( Read more... )

• This evening, as I was bringing home the girls from daycare, I went by the local pharmacy to pick up some medical supplies. I asked my 3 year old where we were. Her response:
  "We're at the drunk store!"
  


• She's not far wrong


• This is late, but one reason to listen to The Junkies (formerly The Sports Junkies) on WJFK in the morning is lines like ( Read more... )