FRS

And If The Band You’re In Starts Playing Different Tunes

Dark Side of the MoonPlanetologists 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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Liquid Sunshine

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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Its Finished

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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You’re Killing Me

Game 7. Ack.

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What?

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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Be Careful What You Wish For

Lucy In The Sky With DiamondsI’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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California Here We Come

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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