Opening Day Part I

A beer company and an ex-ballplayer attempted to turn baseball’s opening day into National Holiday recently. Donna and I both thought, “Great, another holiday we won’t get off.” And it turns out about 100,000 internet crazies were for it, but getting anything actually done required Congress, so it didn’t happen.

And, even if today had become a holiday there would have been no celebration here in Dunbarton Oaks, as the FRS lost their first game of the season to the Baltimore Orioles 2-1, thereby laying claim to last place in the division…

Dunkin Donuts saved the day though, they gave anyone who asked, a free small iced coffee in Tennessee, Virginia, Northwest Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas all day on March 31. Apparently South Carolina wanted to play along too, because I got one on the way home from work. I can even get another free small iced coffee tomorrow, but we will have to drive a little further to get it, as it is only being offered in northeast Ohio.

Opening Day Part II

Barack and Michelle are at the White Sox baseball game, sitting in the first row with the Secret Service seated directly behind them. One of the Secret Service agents leans forward and says something to the President. Barack stares at the agent, looks at Michelle, looks back at the agent, and shakes his head.

The agent then says “Mr. President, it was a request from the team owner who is a big campaign contributor, and the fans will love it!” So, Barack shrugs and says “Well, if it will help my poll numbers.” He gets up, grabs Michelle by her collar and the seat of her pants and drops her right over the wall into the field.

She gets up kicking, screaming & swearing. The crowd goes wild; cheering, applauding, and high-fiveing. Barack is bowing and smiling, and leans over to the agent and says “You were right, I would have never believed that!” Noticing the agent has gone totally pale, Barack asks what was wrong.

The agent replies “Sir, I said, they want you to throw out the first ………PITCH!!!”

That Time Of Year

Yesterday was supposed to be a rainy day with thunderstorms. So much so that they postponed the final leg of Aiken’s Triple Crown, the polo game, from Saturday until today, Sunday. In the morning it rained a bit, but by mid afternoon the predicted thunder had not materialized.

After it seemed all the rain had passed I decided to wash the Purple Whale to clean off the road grime and dead bugs from our trip to Florida a couple weeks ago. After washing and drying the car I carried the floor mats inside and vacuumed them off, it took less than 5 minutes, but by the time I opened the first door to put them in the car a fine dusting of pine pollen had already accumulated on the surface of the car. It’s that time of year.

Around dark last night we went out and did our weekly grocery shopping. While we were in the store a brief shower must have come through. Nice.

I went out this morning to get the Sunday paper, if you live in a pine infested area you know what I saw, the car looked like it had the measles, there were nice round circles of yellow all over. Sigh.

This afternoon I gave the Whale a brushing off with the California Duster. I got rid of most of the spots and it is not perfect, but I feel a little better. At least until we get in the car to drive home from work tomorrow.

My New Wallpaper

They had a little get together this morning for the retiring Kathy. There was cake and coffee and a last chance to give her a hug and/or say goodbye. As usual, someone was taking photos to immortalize the event. I came in slightly late to the party and was tossed together with my old boss so as to not have to be photographed all lonely like.

Later once they had passed around the link to location of the photos on the network my old boss walked by my cube and said, “That’s my new wallpaper.” I replied that I wouldn’t make it mine because it looked like I had someone’s head growing out of my left shoulder. He said, “Airbrush him out.” “Why don’t I just get rid of all the background and stick us on the beach with tropical drinks in our hands,” I said. “Fine,” he said, “Just be sure to put a little umbrella in mine.”

So, if you haven’t already accidentally done it, hover your mouse over the top image to see my new wallpaper.

A Picture Is Worth A 1,000 Limbs

Focus

I was trying to take a picture of my just cleaned up front lawn through the kitchen window and the camera must have focused on a spec on the outside of the exterior pane. Looks kinda neat, almost like there is dust on your monitor.

We stayed a little late at work and stopped at Kroger to pick up a couple of things which made our arrival at home nearly perfect. As we came up the side street to our house we passed and saw several dump trucks full of tree debris. Not wanting to be disappointed we kept our expectations in check, but as we turned onto our street the road seemed a lot wider than it had been in about 6 weeks. They were cleaning our street. As we got closer to home it looked like they were right in front of our house. They were, but there was still an opening to our driveway, so I zipped in. Right after I parked a dump truck took up station blocking the street and a guy in a super-sized bobcat picked up the stuff in front our, and the house across the street’s, house.

Clone Club Email

This was yesterday’s Clone Club email:

Subj: A 90 Second Season 1 Recap, 4 Season 2 Optical Illusion Posters & More

T-minus 25 days…

BBC America has put together a quick (literally and figuratively) recap of Season 1 – YouTube

Optical Illusion Posters for the new Season to print out and put on your bedroom wall – Nerdist

An Orphan Black Insider featuring Tatiana talking about the show interspaced with clips from last season and the upcoming one – YouTube

A New Special on BBC America called Orphan Black: The #Cloneversation! will premiere on Saturday, April 12 at 8/7c . The show will be hosted by Wil Wheaton and the one-hour special will cover all-things awesome in Season One and offer an exclusive look at the making of Season Two. Yesterday was the last day to submit fan art or videos that could get used on the show – BBC America

And if you are in Canada, starting on March 29th, Space.ca, the channel that shows Orphan Black, will be streaming Season 1 until a couple days after the premier of Season 2.

You switched the files in your special box for porno DVDs of Big Boob Blowies! – Alison Hendrix

Here is something that I found today and I’m not sure deserves its own email or can it hold out until next week? Inside Orphan Black with the co-creators Graeme Manson and John Fawcett and in a clip from the new season there lies a major spoiler in reference to last season’s cliff hanger ending. – You Tube

New Gutter

New Gutter

When we got home from work today our storm damaged gutter had been replaced. One of the nice workman even left us a nice bonus…