We were scheduled to have games on Saturday and Sunday, but Sunday's game was rained out. (So I wound up hobnobbing with a movie star and a professional gambler. But that's another story ( Read more... )

The whole team turned up for last night's game. It was lovely to see them all, especially after we've gone through stretches where we couldn't even get 9 on the field. Ellen was back in uniform and ready to play ( Read more... )

Idle thought on my mind ( Read more... )

Practice tonight and Ellen returned! Yay for conquering ball-fear after a two week hiatus. It was good to see her ( Read more... )

I pulled Storming The Reality Studio off my bookshelf the other day and was shocked to see it was fourteen years old. This was my favorite of the cyberpunk primers, because it included so much of the theory behind the movement (pieces by Baudrillard, Derrida, Jameson), non-fiction essays and influences (Pynchon, Burroughs, Acker) along with the ( Read more... )

We played the Phillies today. They beat us early in the season, coming from behind to score a lot of runs against our (then) Keystone Kops defense. They are the only undefeated team in our division, but we played them so close last time, and we played so well in our last game we were feeling feisty ( Read more... )

At the reading at Moe's on Monday, Emmett got hungry so JZ took him out for a donut. They also bought a book for Emmett -- The story of Exodus as told with Leggo figures ( Read more... )

Worked until 7:30 last night, grinding out all the scut work I'd let pile up. I decided to swing by the Zam Zam Room on the way home ( Read more... )

I bought Emmett a new baseball bat. He named it Iggy. This pleases me considerably, though it was simply a reference to the bat's brand name (Igniter!), rather than the rock god ( Read more... )

We had a busy baseball weekend, with practice on Friday and games on Saturday and Sunday.

I missed the practice because (a) it was starting to rain and (b) it wasn't my Friday night to go over to the East Bay to collect Emmett. So, I bailed and then it stopped raining and they had practice anyway. Minor twinge of guilt over missing that practice, ( Read more... )