As many/most of you may know, I follow two sports pretty seriously, baseball and football. My Dad was not a serious sports fan; he occasionally followed the Redskins but really wasn't much of a fan and even that level of interest dwindled away years ago. My (twin) brother and I were largely left to our own in this as in many other things; we ( Read more... )

... where you get wrapped up in all sorts of things that make it hard to find time to post, and then, well, so much has happened since the LAST post that I really can't just post, you know, I have to write this megaplusdoubleultraspecial post to do it all justice. Which, of course, I never finish, because who has time to write a ( Read more... )

So much for baseball season.

While running out a grounder to short in the 7th inning of my game on Monday night, I managed to rupture the plantar fascia in my left foot. I knew it was something structural, because I could feel it ripping. It was ... unpleasant. On top of that, I was out (it would have been a very close play but for all the ( Read more... )

How good is her legal reasoning? And her judicial opinions ( Read more... )

I'm through the antibiotics cycle, and the fever has not returned. Let's hear it for modern medicine! The doc suspects Lyme Disease, although (because of the way the timing worked out) I may never get a confirmed diagnosis. As long as that's the last of whatever it was, I'm fine with that result ( Read more... )

Today's news conference by Gov. Sanford (SC) dropped the other shoe. He was offline to his office and to his family so that no one could reach him. I would have thought that, as South Carolina's Chief Executive he would at least have left a forwarding number in case of an emergency, but whatever ( Read more... )

I'm hanging at Gate.A03 in Atlanta airport, waiting for a jet to come take me home. Boarding soon ...

Life proceeds apace. Eilonwydreams and I drove down to Charlotte Friday for chaneybear's wedding. 825 miles of driving, the first half mostly in heavy traffic and rain that ranged from moderate to torrential. The wedding was wonderful, though as bride and groom beamed their way through a sun-dappled lakeshore ceremony and much dancing followed late into the night. A lake ( Read more... )

You know, as a Yankee fan I've always kind of liked David Ortiz, aka "Big Papi," even when (as happened a lot) he was tattooing some pinstriped pitcher*. He was always smiling. Hell, he's still smiling a lot, he's just not hitting ( Read more... )

For me, this day is dedicated to Corporal Matthew Wallace. He died in the service of his country in 2006. I learned of Matt through his sister, trinity3x; I never knew Matt except through the stories told after his death. But I've seen the grief for his loss, and the Patriot Guard standing at attention for him in Arlington Cemetery. For me, he is a ( Read more... )