Breakfast At Home

Not home, home, but the Home Cafe in Washington, GA. Six Miatas with 11 persons onboard made the drive to dine at the spot the locals eat at. From the Bogardus table we can recommend the hash browns and the pancakes, but the biscuit with sausage gravy was unexciting. We didn’t order any breakfast meat because we had cheated on the way to the rendezvous point in Evans, GA, we stopped for an appetizer at the Golden Arches. Sausage McMuffin for me and a breakfast burrito for Donna.

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Citgo Sign

Even though the Sox’s chances of making the playoffs are extremely thin*, I still believe. And back just in time off the disabled list to help them make that run to the post season is, Citgo Sign, the outside the park left fielder.

*Anywhere from 1.6%to 4% according to baseballprospectus.com. Although they are sinking fast as we speak because the FRS are trailing the Blue Jays 7-2 in the 5th inning.

Tonight, along with Take Me Out To The Ballgame, 218,000 new LED lights will once again illuminate the night above the Green Monster after 2 months of darkness.

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SAD

Posting here has been a little slack recently. I have several excuses lined up, including my nagging little back ache, the slight dissociative feeling from the pain pill for said back ache, company swarming the normally quiet home in Dunbarton Oaks and, I know this will be hard to believe because of my usual exciting life, nothing blogworthy has happened. But in all reality it is probably Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Not in the classical definition though as the days, although shortening a little each solar time segment, have not become short enough for that, but the realization that your favorite baseball team’s season is over. While not mathematically eliminated, the FRS really haven’t had a legitimate shot at making the playoffs for last three weeks at least. Baseball Prospectus has their odds of making the post season at 2%, but there is still hope. We still have 6 games left with the MFY and if Tampa Bay can beat them a majority of 5 games they have left with them…

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Glad To See You

We’ve been entertaining some of Donna’s family this week and tonight was the last night of their visit so we decided to buy an ice cream cake for dessert. We went to the local Marble Slab Creamery and picked out an already made cake and wanted them to put some writing on it. Donna told the girl behind the counter to put “Glad To See You” on it.

We picked up the cake this afternoon and didn’t even look at it until we opened it up this evening to serve it. I didn’t realize that Donn’s southern accent had become so pronounced…

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Forget the Sonata

For my grown up car I’m going to get on of these…

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARCyYS_tkDI

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Swimming Pool

I’m in the dining room area of the Fairfield Inn listening to the FRS and watching Four Christmases. I’m not sure what is worse, the WiFi reception in the pool area or the movie. Donna, her brother Scott, his wife Beth and their two munchins are splashing around in the miniature indoor pool. I started there to be polite, but the lousy WiFi and the humidity forced me into a hotel common room, where there was someone lounging on the couch watching this two year old Christmas Turkey on HBO.

The Sox started out good with 2 runs in the bottom of the first. Tampa tied it up in the top of the 3rd and have now taken the lead on a bases loaded walk in the fourth. I maybe be heading back to the pool…

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