Fan Of A Mid Level Team

The Red Sox are on there way to losing to Baltimore again tonight and if they do they will have a .500 record of 28 wins and 28 losses. There are 30 teams in the Major Leagues and right now they have 14 teams with better records and 15 with worse records. They will be in last place and at least 4 games out of first place in their division. If they were in the American League Central they would be in 3rd place and the same 4 games out. If they were playing in the American West they would be in third place too, but 5 games out. The same pretty much holds true in either of the three National League divisions, 4 or 5 games out of first and right near the middle of the 5 or 6 teams therein.

But I keep listening because all it would take is a couple of good winning streaks and they could be right there at the top. But at a third of the way through the regular season, those streaks better start soon.

Photo Fun

Three pictures are worth 3,000 words…

Started up, went down, back up, back down, still down.
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Poke Berry Field

We went for a walk in Hitchcock Woods this morning to take advantage of the slightly cooler temperatures. We did a little 2.9 mile loop* and we passed through a spot I’m not so sure we have been before, Poke Berry Field. If we have visited this spot before it was so long ago that I have forgotten it. The berries must be about to get ripe as someone has parked a purpose built Poke Berry Trailer here in the field in preparation for their harvesting.

*I say little, because when we got home my wife felt she hadn’t walked enough, so she went back out and did her 3 mile loop on the dirt roads of the horse district…

Started up, still up.
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Settling In

I seem to have settled in at an every other pace. Well, that means tonight I should post something and I pretty much have zero to write about, so it’s junk time.

The FRS are playing pretty good baseball right now and have managed to get a couple games above .500. They are still in last place in their division, but everybody is all bunched up and they are only 2-1/2 games behind the leaders. This is all pending the outcome of tonight’s game and things are not looking too good.

I’m watching the game on MLB.tv using the Roku box. Every day so far they have had a Free Game of the Day and this is the first time the Sox have been on for free. I think it helped that there are only three big league games in total going tonight and the FRS game is the only one in the eastern time zone. As strange as this seems the worse part of watching the game on MLB.tv is the lack of commercials. The deafening silence for 2 – 3 minutes while staring at the logo is UN-nerving.

The CNC machine I sort of learned to program and then just recently sort of learned how to operate is in the building. Our maintenance is hooking up power to it and when they are done the fine folks of Ellison Technologies will come in and put it in complete working order. Then the fun really begins.

My taste buds are still slightly whack after 5 days of being off the antibiotics….

Unintentional Phallic Symbol?

Or is it just me?

I love some Diet Dr. Pepper and I have graduated from my one 12oz. can a day to one 16.9 ouncer. In between I would buy an occasional 20oz bottle out of the machine, but sometimes I wouldn’t even finish the whole bottle. At a $1.25 it was kind of a waste.

Today after I had poured the last of the half litter bottle into my mug and I placed the bottle back down on my desk it just looked a little “dirty.” Maybe because the diameter of the bottle is smaller than the 20oz and then again slightly taller as well, giving it a decidedly male profile.

P.S. The 24oz bottles are even worse.

House Hunters Tatooine

We have a guideline here Casa de Bogardus that if control of the remote is in possession of one individual and that individual leaves the room, after a period of time the person not in actual custody of the remote may take temporary possession of the device until the original possessor returns. Such temporary possession becomes permanent after a slightly longer undetermined period of time.

Donna was watching House Hunters Getaways* when she left the room for a few minutes. I was listening to the FRS getting their butts kicked by Tampa Bay on the laptop and after a few more pitches leaned over and grabbed the remote to do a little surfing for background imagery. About 10 channels later I found two droids (not phones) walking across a desert.

*Is it just me or does this show now have more permutations than CSI or Kardashian sisters?

The PCP told me this morning that my blood work was peachy keen and the hospital hasn’t called to tell me one of my blood cultures turned into a pulsing, glowing broccoli shaped thing, so I must be fine. I’m going to blame my slight puckishness on the two antibiotics I’m taking, because I know for sure that they are responsible for making my mouth taste like I’m sucking on nickels.

Started up, went down, went up, back down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Tran?si?tions since 10/24/08: 1143