FRS

Mmmm Mmmuffins

Miataless Post OfficeWe bought this morning’s breakfast from the New Moon Cafe after yesterday’s hike, a low fat Blueberry muffin for her and a Raspberry Coconut muffin for him (which we ended up splitting 50-50.)

Meal Cost: $2.65
Tip: 35¢
Spent This Meal: $3.00

After breakfast we tried to make up for the last 3 weeks on non-activity in the Post Office quest by heading to the capital city of the Great State of South Carolina and getting a photo of all 13 POs. Mission accomplished. The only Post Office not accounted for that lists Columbia as the city is the one on the Army base, Fort Jackson. (They have an Open House on the 18 & 19 of May for Armed Forces Day so we might try and sneak in then.)

A few years back a favored Sunday lunch spot was an Italian fast food chain called Fazoli’s, but they closed up shop here in Aiken and we have missed eating their food quite often since then. Well, Columbia has two Fazoli’s and both are close to some of our destination Post Offices, so we thought it might be a treat to eat there for lunch. I guess our memories have been colored by time (or maybe it was this particular restaurant) because it didn’t seem worth the trip. The Twice Baked Ziti with Hearty Meat Sauce was good and the bread sticks were practically dripping in butter, but the salad and the dressing left a lot to be desired. I had a fountain Coke and Donna had water.

Meal Cost: $10.76
Tip: None
Spent This Meal: $10.76
Spent Today: $13.38
Year to Date: $923.03

Five out of six isn’t half bad. As a matter of fact it is 83% good. After looking lackluster on Fox yesterday the FRS came out swinging against the dreaded Yankees today and came out on top of a 7 to 4 score. Big Papi contributed a homer, as did the coming out of his funk Manny Rameriz, but those guys are expected to smack the long ball. A nice bonus was a homer from our utility infielder Alex Cora. Now we have 19 warm up games until we come back to the “House That Ruth Built” on the 21st of May.

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Imagine

What Would Yoko Say?“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will live as one.”

Right now I’m working at my ripping CDs project and listening to the FRS come from behind to whoop up on the Baltimore Orioles. I’ve almost got one shelf of the ten total done and I’m up to Bogguss, Suzy.

I’m still leaking copious amounts of Brain Lubricant, but I made it all the way through the work day without the overwhelming desire to take a nap. I made it all the past dinner before having to catch 20 winks.

When I woke up Fox News was in the middle of wall to wall coverage of a low speed chase in LA, some knucklehead in a stolen car was leading cops and news helicopters around town. At one point, riding on nothing but the rims, the “suspect” did several doughnuts in the middle of an intersection leaving nicely marked up asphalt in his wake. When they finally stopped him, he immediately hit the ground flat and about 20 LEOs pounced on him. I’m sure it would have caused a big uproar in the media, but I was actually hoping they would beat the crap out of him for being so stupid.

Uploaded the other 24 photos from the northeast trip, but I’ve still only got captions on about eight. I’d better get busy because 4 weeks from tomorrow we are off to the other side of the country for 10 days.

The screened porch is still covered in a layer of pine pollen and my hope is to get out there after work tomorrow and wash it off.

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Love Me Do

Paul's in the NationLeft over story from our northeast visit: After the service for Donna’s aunt the family gathered at a nice Italian restaurant in Summit, NJ, where we were served a five course meal. Donna and I sat at kind of the “kids” table with the youngest cousin, her husband and their young daughter, a couple of family friends and the daughters of the middle two cousins, Susan’s two girls Meghan 14, Jessica 12 and Mary’s 14 year-old Kristen. When they came around taking drink orders those three girls to my right ordered Shirley Temples, I had a glass of red wine and for fun Donna ordered a Shirley Temple too. I’m not to sure who started it, might have been Jessica, but the girls decided to see if they could take their cherry stems and tie them into a knot in their mouths using just their tongues.

Meghan was the only one of the three to actually accomplish the feat, we of course applauded her success. If I was her father I’m not so sure that I’d have been that proud and I would have definitely instructed her not to demonstrate that talent on a date with a hormonally charged teenager.

Arri’s Grill for supper. Two 1/3 lb hand formed patties of ground chuck served with lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles, mayo and mustard. We split an order of fries.

Meal Cost: $10.37
Tip: None
Spent Today: $10.37
Year to Date: $891.27

I’ve got a 485 CD collection that is rarely used anymore. Matter of fact, if it wasn’t for the rental car the other week and the one we’ll be driving out west in another month they wouldn’t ever leave the shelves they sit on. So I have decided to rip them all into MP3s and store ’em on my hard drive. I’ve done about 30 so far, but I haven’t really been applying myself to the project. I mean if I do get them done, what do I do with all that plastic? Maybe I can find somebody to wholesale ’em to about 50¢ a piece…

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Feeling Nearly Human

Took the day off from work and laid out to help get over the yuck I got somewhere. Snagged a couple of major naps and now I starting to feel better. The body aches are now mostly gone and the fever appears to be history, but I now have a icky little cough. I took some Vicks 44 this morning and it helped, but this afternoon I took a tablespoon of some of Donna’s leftover prescription stuff that is laced with codeine. Big mistake, that stuff made me stupid.I set out to finish up tweaking and posting our vacation photos from the other week. I had 48 selected and only managed to 34 done. I uploaded them and managed to get captions on 8 or 9 before I couldn’t maintain the intense concentration required post pictures on the internet…

Couple of random thoughts after watching the FRS on TV three straight days;
a) the new style hats the big leaguers are wearing this year look like a truckers hat, you know the kind with a foam front and a mesh back.
b) The green shirts they wore on Saturday looked very elfish with the red long sleeve undershirts.
   1) but I do like the green hats and may get one…
c) when you put a batting helmet on Willie Moe Pena it looks like he has to squeeze his head to get it in there.

While we are talking baseball and blogs: Curt Schilling‘s got one.

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Well, At Least The FRS Recovered

When I blogged last night things looked grim for the Sox and they were trailing the Yankees 6-2 when they came to bat in the bottom of the eighth, but they scored 5 times to end up winning the game. In this afternoon’s contest they were back and forth until the FRS scored three in the bottom of the fourth and kept the lead until the end.

While I, on the other hand, if anything, got worse. The sore throat peaked this morning and is going away, but I’m in full blown (pun intended) running nose, watery eyes and body aches. I’m hitting the showers as soon as I’m done typing this and going to bed.

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The Real Baseball Season Starts Today

The 2007 Major League Baseball season has been in process for a couple of weeks now, but tonight is really opening day. The dreaded Yankees are in town for a three game set. I am apparently not the only one excited by this series of games this early in the season, tonight’s game is on ESPN, tomorrow’s is on Fox and Sunday night it’s ESPN again.

So far it looks like the Sox are playing like I feel, a little out of it. Woke up this morning with a sore throat and a runny nose. Of course the reason they are losing 5-3 in the seventh could be those ugly green uniforms they are wearing tonight (supposedly a Boston Celtic / Red Auerbach tribute.)

Or it could be some bad karma I caused with my little phone call prank on my boss the Yankee fan this morning. Thanks to XM Radio I sent him a voice mail from Big Papi, David Ortiz, telling him about MLB on XM and I customized it so David would call him a Red Sox fan.

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Princess Leia Gets Hers Too

Red Sox NationPrincess Leia’s Red Sox Nation membership card came in the mail a day after Chewbacca’s. She’s not sure where she will put her bumper sticker yet, but right now she is leaning towards placing it on C3PO’s back just out of his reach in hopes of sending him into an infinite feedback loop of fastidiousness.

It is supposed to be a glorious spring weekend here and we are not exactly sure what to do with it:

Option #1, and the most unlikely, is to drive 250 miles to Columbus, GA and do one last BMW Ultimate Drive before they are entirely out of reach. (+) it sure is fun to drive BMWs. (–) 3 times a charm, but 4 is slightly obsessive. (–) it would mean another hotel room and another mediocre breakfast buffet.

Option #2, and slightly more probable, would be a drive of 125 miles to go to Beaufort, SC to see the Blue Angels. (+) air shows are cool. (+) there would be the chance to get a picture of the Post Office on the Marine Corp Air Station where the show is. (–) big crowds of people and we just left that party in NJ. (–) we really don’t want to go anywhere having been traveling the last two weekends. (+) a meal of crab cakes at Barbara Jean’s might be just the enticement to tip the scales towards going down there.

Option #3, and most likely, is dinner out in Augusta with friends on Friday and staying around the house. I really need to to clean all the pine pollen off the tables and floors on the screen porch. The furniture cushions need vacuuming too. It is spring and this is the best time to enjoy our meals, etc out there, but the porch needs some sprucing up first. And if we get restless we could always drive to Columbia on Sunday morning and take some Post Office pictures.

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