Sturgeon’s Law Ninety percent of everything is crap.
Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, “Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That’s because 90% of everything is crud.” Oddly, when Sturgeon’s Law is cited, the final word is almost invariably changed to ‘crap’.
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They finally set the scheduled times for the first round playoff games. This is the only one that counts, but I’ll probably have one eye on the Cleveland — New York series. As much as I’s hate to have the FRS knocked out of a chance at a World Series win by the Yankees, it would be so much sweeter to trounce the MFY on the way to it.
| Game 1 |
LAA @ BOS |
Wed |
Oct. 3 |
6:30 pm |
TBS |
| Game 2 |
LAA @ BOS |
Fri |
Oct. 5 |
8:30 pm |
TBS |
| Game 3 |
BOS @ LAA |
Sun |
Oct. 7 |
3:00 pm |
TBS |
| Game 4* |
BOS @ LAA |
Mon |
Oct. 8 |
9:30 pm |
TBS |
| Game 5* |
LAA @ BOS |
Wed |
Oct. 10 |
8:30 pm |
TBS |
| * If Necessary |
My prize for the David Ortiz Walk Off Contest on The Joy of Sox showed up in the mail today — Big Papi — My Story of Big Dreams and Big Hits. There are a few pictures in the book and one is of David when he played for the New Britain Rock Cats in the summer of ’97. I can’t remember if we visited my old home town that summer and if we did, did we take in a game and if we did, did we see “Little” Papi.
Also one of the Spenser books I ordered came too, so I’ve got plenty to read for Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday between games.
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 I know the post season starts tomorrow, but tonight it just seems so over, there is no baseball game on the radio. Practically every night for the last six months I’ve sat in front of my PC and wasted several hours mucking about and listening to the FRS on WEEI and I miss it already.
Now the playoffs begin, with all the games on TV and I’ll feel compelled to watch, even though I will more than likely cringe at listening to the monkeys in the booth fill every second of air with truly inane stats and statements. I would much rather listen to the radio announcers call the game and watch the TV pictures, but that is impossible to take because of the time difference. There is a 5 or so second delay between the TV pictures and the radio sound (I have no clue as to what the reason for this delay is) and it made me crazy the one time I tried it.
Oooooh, I wonder if you had TIVO and hit pause until the radio sound caught up to the TV, then restarted the video?
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It all started on October 6th, 1969, the third day of the session, when the Chief Justice Warren Burger had a garden gnome delivered to the Supreme Court building. His wife Elvera had ordered it from a mail order catalog, but wasn’t going to be home, so she had it sent to her husband’s work. Justice Berger’s head clerk, not knowing about the package arraingment, opened it up. Since then it has become sort of a running joke among the members to bring in a small gnome statue to court on the first Wednesday of October.
Knowing this, I took Gnorm into work with me today. The thought was to take his picture in various spots around the plant, so I could post some on the web. I got busy and never did take the time to do that. Gnorm spent almost the whole day on the little counter at my cubical greeting visitors and giving me a chance to explain the whole “Take Your Gnome To Work Day” thing. Maybe next year more of my co-workers will join me in celebrating.
 Gnorm also made the trip this afternoon to our every four weeks haircut appointment. Our stylist was so enamored with Gnorm that she offered him a free beard trim. He probably could have used a booster seat, but managed with just a small pillow. Note the curtain in the background, Sheri’s Hair Affair has a cow motif going on and after getting his sprucing up decided to cut up with a couple of the resident cows: Suprise!
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 This being the first Thursday of the month it was time for the MMC to hold a meeting. Not usually much of a meeting, brief recap of the last couple of events, brief recap of the next few events and we pick a place to “meet” next month. At least tonight it was at Mi Rancho (guess what kind of restaurant it is) here in Aiken, so Donna and I didn’t have far to drive.
Tuesday night I went over to the cable company office and swapped out my modem. Came home, hooked up the new one and we have been online 5 by 5 ever since.
Finished Spenser book #17, Stardust, with nary a peep about crime stopper rules. My present home town, Aiken, South Carolina, got a brief mention as the home of a mother of someone who was not the someone he was looking for.
A few weeks back Netflix added the ability to drag and drop movies in your queue to organize it. This is probably a great thing for most people, but it really screwed me up, because it killed the way I organized my queue, random shuffling. Today I discovered on my account page that I could disable this drag and drop function. Who knows, maybe you could always do this and I’m just late to the party. A check in a little box and woohoo, shuffling works again.
The MFY are losing (big time.)
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 Last night Gnorm went home with his parents, so here is one last photo from when he went it to work with me the other day. Gnorm was totally captivated as the Fab Four played “I Want to be Your Gnome”, “The Gnome on the Hill” & “Hey Gnome” for him.
Three more Spenser paperbacks came in the mail today and I already finished one, The Godwulf Manuscript. It is the first in the Spenser series and while not as polished as the later books, you can definitely see the character in his rough form. Sort of like a wood carving Spenser is working on a couple times in this story.
The MFY lost their second game to the Indians today, digging a big hole for themselves where they will have to win the next three games to advance. As I type this the FRS are trailing 3–2 in the 5th inning to the Angels, and if I had to guess by the way the breaks are going they will end up on the losing side of this game, but I hope I’m wrong.
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I wasn’t going to blog tonight. I didn’t need to write anything just so I could append it with the top count, because the car hasn’t moved all day. I didn’t really have anything profound to say. I don’t have any more cute gnome pictures to post.
So what prompted me to write this post, three things:
1) Reading this on TechDirt: If You Play Your Radio Loud Enough For Your Neighbor To Hear, Is It Copyright Infringement?
2) Seeing the phrase that is the title of this post on the Boston Dirt Dogs web site pertaining to the FRS and their trip to LA for game 3 of the ALDS after Manny’s walk-off homer last night.
C) And having the phrase that is the title of this post become applicable to me because it looks like our 2008 trip to the northwest will start and end in San Francisco with a trip up the coast to Victoria, BC in between.
Oh, yeah, for what its worth.
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Recently Yahoo updated / changed their email and it has resulted in a couple hundred percent increase of spam delivered to the MMC mailbox. So much so that I wondered if I had unintentionally shut off their “Spam Guard”, I hadn’t. What is most annoying is that the Club gets so few mails of importance to begin with…
Also, I think I will go ahead and kill the brian@mr-miata.net address as it has been attracting lots of spam lately too. I rarely used it anyway. I was going to get cute and try to obfuscate that email address, but what does it matter if it will no longer exist after tonight. So if you have that email in your address book go ahead and delete it. Try Brian_the_Red with the domain, OK?
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 I’m sitting here on the couch watching the MFY play the Indians in the American League Division Series. Because I would rather have the Red Sox lose, if they were to lose, to Cleveland than to New York in the League Championship Series, I am rooting for the Indians. Not only for that reason, but there is the usual one too, I always root for whoever is playing against the Yankees.
It is not entirely over just yet, but the Indians have a five run lead in the 5th inning and are leading the series 2 games to 1, so it is looking good for them. But the way the Indians are playing right now, maybe, just maybe, I don’t really want them to win…
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I’m thinking of picking back up with a photo meme to get me to take pictures of something besides the Emperor and Post Offices. At one time, back in the day when I had three blogs, one just for the photos, I was participating in four:
- Phototime Tuesday
- Lensday Wednesday
- Theme Thursday
- Photo Friday
The only reason that I did not do anything for Saturday, Sunday or Monday is there wasn’t one for me to do (at least then.) Let me poke around a bit before I decide, but right now I’m leaning towards Thursday because, at least before, they sent out an email on the Friday before to give you the theme for you to work on over the weekend and the next week.
The Wednesday site is “sponsored” by a T-shirt company and while wandering the aisles of their e-store I found a bunch of shirts I’d like to wear, but I’m too grown up to get away with them, but there is one I found that is a must have: Nerf Herder.
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We have hung around the house the last two weekends and couldn’t stand it anymore, we made some reservations in Anderson for Saturday night. We have two missions, 1) to take pictures of the last 8 Post Offices in the northwest corner of the state and 2) check for fall colors in advance of next weekend’s visit from the Florida branch of Donna’s family.
We have photographed 290, leaving us 170 to go. Of the 170, I have printed out 131 maps and of those I have placed 86 on the Google map below.
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I may go back and add all the Post Offices I have done and use a different color icon. I would definitely do it if I could link to my Flickr images (seeing as Flickr has me cut off at 200 on their map.) here are a couple of Flickr add-ons to the map, but not one that would limit it to just my photos…
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At work there are 4 of us in the “Car Guys” group. We each subscribe to a car magazine and then pass it around among us. Thank goodness the magazine people don’t have a RIAA like group looking out after them, we’d be in trouble.
Today the latest Motor Trend was sitting on my desk. You couldn’t see the cover because of the card stock overwrap announcing your chance to get two subscriptions for the price of one, your renewal and a gift subscription for someone, just in time for the holidays.
The tear out card has the current subscribers name already on it, it served as the mailing label, so all you have to do is fill out the blanks for your friend and send it back, just check the box marked bill me later. To the left of the address area is the text reading, “Yes, I accept! Extend my subscription for 1 year (12 issues) at the preferred subscriber rate of only $20 and enter my 1-year gift subscription to the person listed above — that’s two subscriptions for the price of one!”
Sounds great, until you realized that you can subscribe to Motor Trend for $10 a year from a bunch of places, including the Motor Trend site itself…
I wonder what their non-preferred rate is?
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I’m not blogging tonight. You can’t make me. So if you’ve come here to read about my ‘exciting’ day there will be nothing here for you.
I didn’t go out to eat with friends tonight. So there will be no stories of how my Fillet Gorgonzola was very tasty, but the pasta and veggies that served as side dishes were not palate pleasers. Or how Donna’s Veal Saltimbocca while not visually appealing was very good.
The FRS didn’t win their playoff game. So there will be no trumpeting about the 10 runs the Bosox scored nor Beckett’s 6 inning mastery of the Indians only allowing one run with the bullpen finishing the game allowing only two more.
I am definitely not going to tell you about our drive to work this morning with the top down, but the windows up because it was down right chilly, nor, how on the way home from the restaurant we didn’t eat at this evening we put the windows up again, but not the top.
Nope, not going to do it.
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As we hit the outskirts of Anderson the road turned to four lanes, we pulled up to a stoplight first in line in the right lane. Next to us, blocking out the sun, stopped a full-size Chevy panel van. The passenger looked over and down at us, gave us the V sign with his fingers and then mumbled something unintelligible in a heavy rural southern accent with a big smile on his face. The light turned green and they lurched forward trying to get the jump on me. I accelerated at my usual brisk pace and as their out of tune van bucked and stumbled, the Emperor pulled away. As the van reached speed it smoothed out and tore right by. Until the next light.
Even again, my rural friend leaned out the window and said, “We figure with this curve up ahead we’ll take you easy.” and smiled big to let me know he was kidding. Then he said, “Look behind us.” I thought he was going to point out an LEO, but no, I could see a red and white two-tone mid 50’s Chevy. “Fifty-five,” my new best buddy says. I ask, “Wonder if he’d trade me straight up?” The passenger just rolls his eyes and the driver says, “Depends on how much money you got in your pocket.” The light changes and off I go.
At the next light, the van is in the right lane next in line behind me and they are directly across from the ’55 Chevy. I can’t hear what they are saying, but everybody’s jaws are moving. I can bet our rural friends are not asking if the guy in the ’55 Belair wants to swap cars with me. And if they are, guaranteed there will not be a swapping of pink slips at the next light.
The next light is a long way off and by the time I get stopped at it, both the van and the ’55 are long gone.
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 We set out to get the remaining eight Post Offices in the northwest part of the state and ended up with 9. Midway between Travelers Rest and Liberty we passed right by a mystery CPU. I did a u-turn and went back to get a photo. The closest town to us then was Dacusville, but it didn’t have a Post Office. Donna wrote down the address and this evening when we got home I looked for a Post Office in that town, none was listed. There was a new CPU for Easley that wasn’t on my original spreadsheet, the addresses matched. We have 299 PO photos taken, but we now have 162 to go as the state total just got kicked up a notch. About halfway through our loop we detoured up to Caesar’s Head State Park to see if any of the leaves were changing, they weren’t. The photo above is the view from the lookout near the ranger station, that granite faced mountain off in the distance is Table Rock Mountain with Pinnacle Lake in front of it.
Somewhere south of Calhoun Falls on SC81 the Emperor passed through the 68,000 mile mark.
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 Most folks are suckers for a nice sunset photo, this one probably won’t won’t be on a lot of favorite list.
Our original plan was to take a couple of PO photos on Saturday evening before checking into the hotel. I thought that maybe if we timed it right it would have been cool if we took the Sunset, SC Post Office at sunset. We didn’t do any photographs before settling in for the night and it was no great loss as the sun would have been setting at the wrong angle to have shown in the picture anyway.
I’m down to my last three Spenser books, having finished “The Judas Goat” this afternoon. No Spenser Crime Buster Rule, but I did get, for the first time in several books, a reference to a Dick Track Tracy Crime Stopper. I added it to the page, but I think it is going to have to be re-thought out. Might just change the title to “The Private Eye’s Reference Room” or “Directions for Detectives” or some other thing with shamus in it and just list all the tips whomever said them.
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I think I’ll try the Tuesday Challenge for awhile. Mainly because I don’t have anything to blog about tonight, so I thought I would just post a picture. Being as it is Tuesday I picked a Tuesday meme. Then I decided I didn’t want to limit the size to just 500 wide so I went and made a separate gallery for my entries.
So far so good, I had a photo I could use. So far so bad, when I entered my blog name I left out the f in life, so my first entry is listed as “Lie of Brian.” Also on the down side is I don’t get a reminder email. I’m guessing I will probably keep at it so I don’t end up with a gallery that only has one photo in it. Better put a link for the challenge on the sidebar…
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Unlike a year ago, I wasn’t on rollerblades his time. I was on a ladder, so my fall was from 5–6 feet instead of 3.
I was on the roof of the house blowing off the little branches shed from the trees and the hickory nut carcasses left behind from squirrel meals with a leaf blower. When it was time to come down, I got on the ladder carefully, as always, to keep my weight centered so as not to tip sideways. After two steps down the ladder feet slipped backwards and the next thing I knew I was sitting on the deck on top of the now horizontal aluminum extension ladder. My left cheek hit the I-beam stile and took the full force of the landing. Oooouch!
I sat, mostly leaning right cheek way, for a few minutes collecting my thoughts on a chair on the porch. I then got up and finished blowing off the deck and then the driveway (company’s coming you know.)
It hurts to sit on it (naturally) and 90 degree bends are not real comfortable, but I’m probably alright. Standing and walking feels nearly fine. But that side is pretty swollen right now, so I’m sitting on a pack of ice while I type this. We’ll see what it feels like in the morning, and whatever happens, I know that area will be looking multi-hued from the shorter wavelength of the visible light spectrum in a couple days.
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Which according to dictionary.com means — To take in by deceptive means; deceive.
The movie was listed over in my Netflix rental queue in the sidebar for about a week before it came my way. While it sat there, why didn’t one of you warn me that “Hoodwinked” was a stupid movie? Nobody has seen it yet? Or were you fooled into watching it and because you suffered through it felt I should too? We only made it 7 minutes in before we hit the eject button.
The animation looked liked a Nickelodeon show, so maybe the kiddies liked it, but we felt it off putting. Mostly though the cops talked too fast so we never got a hold on what was happening. Back in the envelope it went. My only regret is, because of the baseball playoffs, it sat on the coffee table a long time just wasting movie rental opportunities.
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Donna’s sister, her husband and his mom are in town for a weekend visit. We spent the evening sitting on the screened porch, drinking wine, conversing and playing Liverpool Rummy. I only had slight pangs of withdrawal from my usual time hanging out on the internet.
The visit up was to see us and to see some fall color, which is non existent in their native Florida. Trouble is with this year’s drought, and the lack of cold nights, that fall spectacle, right now, is only available after about four hours of driving further north. Not wanting to spend that much time in the car after spending so much time in it on the way up, we have opted for a visit to the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia tomorrow which is only a little less than an hour up the road. Expect pictures of pink flamingos or red-ruffed lemurs in the Saturday Evening Post.
I am up later than usual blogging tonight because I need the practice staying awake for tomorrow’s ALCS game 6.
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Game 7. Ack.
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 We did go to the zoo yesterday, beautiful day and a nice time was had by all.
Today we went over to Georgia and took a boat tour on the Augusta Canal. We rode in an electric powered replica of a Petersburg Boat and passed under several bridges, including this 93-year old span that is a memorial to a victim of the Titanic disaster and Augusta native, Major Archibald Willingham Butt.
By the way, mine is hasn’t turned colorful enough to warrant a picture posting, but its still pretty sore.
Got done reading book #11, Valediction, this evening, thereby completing my quest to read every one of Robert Parker’s Spenser novels. I’ve got all 34 books on a shelf and maybe in a couple years I’ll read them through in order, instead of randomly like this time. It was never required, but it might make some of the references fit together better.
This book didn’t have any crime buster secrets, but it did have one of Spenser’s Laws of Dining:
In high restaurants the food never lives up to the view.
The second to last book I read, A Savage Place, did have a Dick Tracy Crime-Stopper reference:
I had a full file of Dick Tracy crime-stoppers at home, but none of them that I could remember covered this. What would Allan Pinkerton do? What would I tell the Bel-Air Patrol if they put the arm on me here in the bushes? My palms felt a little sweaty. I squinted a little to blur things and took a quick peek. They were still at it. Private eye was one thing, Peeping Tom was another. I headed for the car.
Seeing as no specific rule is mentioned it didn’t make the cut.
In case you missed it the FRS didn’t lose to the Indians in game seven of the ALCS, like I expected, so they are on to the World Series (or more appropriately the MLB Championship Series.) They now get the privilege of playing the Colorado Rockies of the National League who have won 20 of their last 21 games and swept through both of their playoffs series. I hope Mark is right in that if the Rockies ever lose one, they’ll collapse and not win another until next year some time and that the FRS can win the first game on Wednesday to start that slide.
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 A little more than six days into the Luminix mission we received some photos back of surprising clarity from the sunny side of Planet 52’s moon Bownce. The surface is fairly smooth with little cratering. At this point we are not sure what to attribute the unusual coloring to.
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After living in the remote wilderness of West Virginia all his life, an old hillbilly decided it was time to visit the big city.
In one of the stores he picks up a mirror and looks in it. Not ever having seen one before, he remarked at the image staring back at him, “How about that! Here’s a picture of my daddy.”
He bought the mirror thinking it was a picture of his daddy, but on the way home he remembered his wife, didn’t like his father. So he hung it in the barn, and every morning before leaving for the fields, he would go there and look at it.
His wife began to get suspicious of these many trips to the barn. One day after her husband left, she searched the barn and found the mirror. As she looked into the glass, she fumed, “So that’s the ugly bitch he’s runnin’ around with!”
May not be big news where you are, but it rained here today.
Its raining in Beantown too, making for a messy game one of the MLB Championship Series. Posting may be light for the next 5 to 9 days as my normal blogging time coincides with the TV broadcasting of the FRS and the Colorado Rockies. Plus I can barely concentrate long enough to post something without any distractions…
As much as I’d like to see the Red Sox score tons of runs and win a World Series game, I don’t really want that to happen so in the morning I’ll see a sports headline that reads, “Sox Rocks Rox.” Whatever the score of a Boston win, I can bet somewhere, that that will appear in print.
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 Planetologists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory studying this photo from the dark side of the moon Bownce, believe that the red areas are large deposits of copper and the faint yellow indicates that there might be sulphur just below the surface.
May not be big news where you are, but they opened a new Wal-Mart Supercenter here today.
They may have opened a new Wal-Mart in Beantown today, but I wouldn’t know because I don’t subscribe to the company newsletter. I know they opened one here because it was front page news in the local paper. If they did open one in the Boston area I bet they did a box office business in Red Sox paraphernalia.
I got exactly what I didn’t want last night, the FRS scored a baker’s dozen worth of runs, so although I didn’t see it, I bet somewhere in America a sports page headline read, “Sox Rock Rox.” I’m afraid to mention that I don’t want to see the Rockies score a bunch of runs on the Red Sox, so that someone can get to write the opposite, for fear of it happening, so mums the word.
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At 23:30 hours last night, 68,278 miles from Earth, we lost contact with the Luminix probe after it’s last pass of the moon Bownce. All attempts to re-establish communications have failed. It is a great loss for the scientific community and we won’t be seeing any more of those cool photos.
Tonight in my driveway, just beating the darkness, I transfused the Emperor’s oil and did a kidney transplant. I also swapped his gloves with his shoes. Coincidentally the car’s odometer read 68,278.
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 The laptop power connection is starting to act up. At first it seemed to be the power cord, but now it looks like it might be the connection to the motherboard. Right now if I hold the laptop just right on my, well, lap, the power comes from the adapter and not the battery. But it is getting increasingly more difficult to get it sitting right.
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 If you hunt around on the web you can find loads of pictures of the Red Sox closer, Jonathan Papelbon, in mid grimace after the final out and some others of him doing his little river dance after the FRS won the ALCS, but I can’t find any of him in the dugout between the eighth and ninth innings during one of his long, 4 out saves to show you what I mean. But a couple times during this World Series he has been in there sitting on the end of the bench with his wild-eyed look, running his fingers through his hair vertically to make it stick straight up. This gave him a very distinctively disturbing look. Unfortunately for him this may have given away his evil super hero alter-ego — Syndrome!
Last night, Donna and I watched the whole freaking game three and it didn’t get over until like 1:00AM. Tonight we are going to bed at 11:00PM, no matter what, the Red Sox will win or lose whether I’m watching the game or not, because tomorrow is a work day and we won’t be able to sleep in until 8:30AM like we did today.
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OK, I lied to you. I did not go to bed at 11:00PM, I stayed up until 12:15AM and watched multi-millionaire kids dance for joy on a field of green on a late October evening in Denver. I did not stay long enough to see if Syndrome would do another River Dance in his underwear again though.
Three years ago when the FRS won the Fall Classic for the first time in 86 years, I bought a hat to commemorate the event. This year I will probably do the same, but I’m not sure yet. One, I don’t really like the looks of the hats available and Two, they are kind of pricey at $29.99. The 2004 World Champions hat I bought was $19.99!
 To rub it in I was going to buy my MFY fan manager a 2007 Wild Card Winner hat as a gag when I purchased my Red Sox World Series Champs hat, but even it at $24.99 is a little too much to spend on a quick gag.
Maybe I’ll just buy the Wild Card hat for myself and on the back where there is a ’07 Division Series patch I’ll have the word Loser embroidered there. 
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I had an idea earlier today on something to blog about, but it got lonely, so it left.
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My search for a FRS WSC hat continues.
 This one offered at MLB.com was too pricey at $30 for me to buy. I don’t really like the look, but if it was cheaper I might have bought it.
 A little searching around the web led me to discover that the 2004 hat, that I had owned and liked, was still available and maybe I would just buy another. It is available for $20 at the Yawkey Way Store.
 On the front page of the Yawkey Way Store page is a link that says World Series Champions Merchandise Click Here. It takes you to a sister site that has the same Yawkey Way Store title and look, but the URL is www.thesouvenirstore.com. There I found a hat that looks like the 2004, but with 2007 and the word Champions in script. It is $30, but I’d pay that much for this one, because I like the looks.
You have to register with the site to buy anything, so I put the hat in the shopping cart and start the checkout process. When I get to the shipping page I find out that the cheapest way they offer is UPS ground and that costs $10. So now I rethink this purchase because the hat is now a $40 hat. I like it, but maybe not that much.
Ten bucks doesn’t sound like too much to ship 2 hats, so I try to order both the 2004 and 2007 hats. Can’t be done. Even though they are technically coming from the same place the two web sites don’t talk to each other.
 Do I get one $30 2004 hat or one $40 2007 hat or two hats for $70? Maybe I’ll call the 1–800 number tomorrow and see if they will ship me the 2 hats for a total cost of $60. If I do get 2, the 2007 hat will be in khaki to differentiate it between the 2004 hat.
Next year when the FRS win the 2008 series, I will get the hat, similarly styled, in red.
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