FRS

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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Meet the Beatles

Meet the BeatlesLast night Gnorm went home with his parents, so here is one last photo from when he went it to work with me the other day. Gnorm was totally captivated as the Fab Four played “I Want to be Your Gnome”, “The Gnome on the Hill” & “Hey Gnome” for him.

Three more Spenser paperbacks came in the mail today and I already finished one, The Godwulf Manuscript. It is the first in the Spenser series and while not as polished as the later books, you can definitely see the character in his rough form. Sort of like a wood carving Spenser is working on a couple times in this story.

The MFY lost their second game to the Indians today, digging a big hole for themselves where they will have to win the next three games to advance. As I type this the FRS are trailing 3-2 in the 5th inning to the Angels, and if I had to guess by the way the breaks are going they will end up on the losing side of this game, but I hope I’m wrong.

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The Speed Of Light Is Much Faster Than The Speed Of Sound

LightI know the post season starts tomorrow, but tonight it just seems so over, there is no baseball game on the radio. Practically every night for the last six months I’ve sat in front of my PC and wasted several hours mucking about and listening to the FRS on WEEI and I miss it already.

Now the playoffs begin, with all the games on TV and I’ll feel compelled to watch, even though I will more than likely cringe at listening to the monkeys in the booth fill every second of air with truly inane stats and statements. I would much rather listen to the radio announcers call the game and watch the TV pictures, but that is impossible to take because of the time difference. There is a 5 or so second delay between the TV pictures and the radio sound (I have no clue as to what the reason for this delay is) and it made me crazy the one time I tried it.

Oooooh, I wonder if you had TIVO and hit pause until the radio sound caught up to the TV, then restarted the video?

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Round 1

They finally set the scheduled times for the first round playoff games. This is the only one that counts, but I’ll probably have one eye on the Cleveland – New York series. As much as I’s hate to have the FRS knocked out of a chance at a World Series win by the Yankees, it would be so much sweeter to trounce the MFY on the way to it.

Game 1 LAA @ BOS Wed Oct. 3 6:30 pm TBS
Game 2 LAA @ BOS Fri Oct. 5 8:30 pm TBS
Game 3 BOS @ LAA Sun Oct. 7 3:00 pm TBS
Game 4* BOS @ LAA Mon Oct. 8 9:30 pm TBS
Game 5* LAA @ BOS Wed Oct. 10 8:30 pm TBS
* If Necessary

My prize for the David Ortiz Walk Off Contest on The Joy of Sox showed up in the mail today – Big Papi – My Story of Big Dreams and Big Hits. There are a few pictures in the book and one is of David when he played for the New Britain Rock Cats in the summer of ’97. I can’t remember if we visited my old home town that summer and if we did, did we take in a game and if we did, did we see “Little” Papi.

Also one of the Spenser books I ordered came too, so I’ve got plenty to read for Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday between games.

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Lovers Lane

Lovers LaneGnorm went for a walk in Hitchcock Woods with us today (some peektures) It was another beautiful fall day, almost a carbon copy of yesterday; cool, crisp with the very definition of blue sky overhead. It was great to get out and take a hike. Because we got a late (for us) start we had to share the woods with dog walkers, runners (Hi Anne) and horseback riders. We probably saw 10 people! Donna and I took Gnorm down our favorite trail, but it just made him sad because his new girlfriend from yesterday wasn’t with him.

At the end of last week, every time I came home from work the internet connection was down. I would have to reboot the modem, and sometimes the router too, a couple/few of times to get it stable. Yesterday it was fine, but today as I prepared to listen to the FRS‘s last game of the season, it just wouldn’t work no matter how many times I rebooted everything. I ended up on the back porch with the laptop and took a ride on the internet on a neighbor’s dime. Someone close by has an unsecured WAP… After on more reboot of everything, including the PC, I now have internet on the desktop. I can connect to my wireless network with the laptop, but I cannot see the desktop nor the internet. Plus I can no longer get the router’s admin panel from the desktop even after resetting the router. Fixing that will be a job for tomorrow after work.

The Emperor got a bath this afternoon and had the royal scary dentures installed. They will add a little spice to some of the October Post Office photos.

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