FRS

Putting Their Best Foot Forward

I was listening to the FRS online for a while and in the fourth inning they were leading 2-0. I went away and when I came back to the Red Sox home page to get Gameday tab, so I could check up on the game without listening to it. The first thing you see on the site is a picture of tonight’s pitcher Aron Cook with the headline, “Cook’s No-Hitter broken in 6th.”

I look down at the line score and it is the Orioles leading in the bottom of the 6th 5-2. Cooks no-hitter was gone alright, but so was the lead and his tenure on the mound for the evening.

Lime Kiln Lighthouse

-Monday July 2nd Afternoon-
Because the sun sets so late at this time of year that after checking in we even had time to go out, do a load of clothes, explore the touristy part of the town of Friday Harbor and pick up some stuff at the grocery store for snacks & a meal or two. After all that there was still time left to explore the island a bit, thinking of where we might go when we had more time on Tuesday.

While the hoi polloi and day trippers gravitate towards Friday Harbor, all the way on the north side of San Juan Island is Roche Harbor, a resort and it (from my limited observation) attracts the more tony crowd. We had dinner at a cafe out on the pier there and they didn’t turn us away.

As a bonus, while Donna and I were on our west coast road trip, so were the Red Sox allowing me to listen to the ballgame on the internet at the seeming normal time of 7:00PM. If you could call it a bonus, they lost 4 of the 6 games they played against Seattle and Oakland.

Lime Kiln Lighthouse

The Autotrophs Began To Drool

Since we last spoke a week ago*:

The Miata has gotten a bath to wash last Saturday’s bugs off only to put some more back on yesterday when we took the MMC to Sardis.

I’ve got the new shocks for the Emperor in the garage which will probably get installed this week some time. Went with the non-adjustable Koni SRTs this time, because why spent twice as much for the adjustable Sport models.

The FRS have won 3 games and lost 4 which is pretty much on par for the way this season is going. Unfortunately the MFY won all seven (now nine in a row for them) putting the Red Sox (who are still in last in their division) 8 games out.

Mad Men is over for another year and we now have absolutely nothing to watch on TV except for The Big Bang Theory and we only have 4 episodes of that to watch before we are all caught up with all the Season 5 shows.

*Where the heck did it go? Seems like yesterday…

Started down, went up, back down, back up, down again, up again, down once more, still down.
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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.

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….

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.
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