5. October, 2003 - a day of rest (and baseball)
- Friday night was Oktoberfest with the PeTA gang at Gasthof zur Gemütlichkeit. And as we approached the 11pm cutoff for beer out in the tent, people started realizing they had too many tokens left and weren’t going to be able to drink that much beer before it was time to leave. So I found myself with a bunch of extra tokens at the end, and naturally decided that I wasn’t going to let any of them go to waste. Then after getting home before midnight, I decided I wasn’t done for the day, and had a few more beers.
Saturday meant getting up at 8am and getting a few hours of work done, but it went fairly smoothly. Then it was time to watch the Twins lose, and start cleaning the house for the evening poker game. Two sacks of trash, four bags of recycling, and three bundles of flattened cardboard boxes later (I always get way behind on the cardboard recycling), there was at least room for folks to sit around the table and play cards. I’ve got a couple storage tubs filled with videotapes and books that I need to sort, and a ton of laundry to do, but the place doesn’t look like quite as much of a pit as it used to.
Today, I was planning on heading up to Mom’s to help her go through a bunch of papers she wanted help sorting, but I’m going to beg off and just take it easy. If I’m feeling super-motivated, I might do a load of laundry, but if I don’t take some time off today, I’ll be worthless for the work-week tomorrow, and it’s looking like another week full of things that could distract me from work. I think I need to be at least a little fresh for it.
- Scott (and Mark)’s Double-header, guest entry describes two friends of mine having an adventure in which they see two major league playoff games in a single day, paying less than face value for the tickets to a sold-out game. I’m gonna hafta try going to a ballgame with Mark sometime to learn his tricks. [scottk]
- Always know the score / Sharp eyes and pencils track every play. A nice article about scoring baseball games. Me, I’m more of the have a beer and visit with people persuasion. [scottk]
- Meanwhile, the Twins are Back to the abyss after losing to the Yankees yesterday. Gotta win today.
- Free State Project Picks New Hampshire. Now to just get another fifteen thousand people to sign up and to start moving.
- It’s a Question of power on Iron Range. And apparently, there’s going to be a new power plant that nobody wants or needs. Looks like quite a pork-barrel. [press-patch]
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Sun, 05 Oct 2003 11:00:20.