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background noise
Sep. 26th, 2008 09:57 pmI'd much rather have the ballgame as the background for the work I'm doing than the debate. Even though we're losing 8-3 to the Yankees and it's only the top of the fourth. Even though a Red Sox loss today would clinch the division for the Rays. Even though Aardsma just hit Giambi on the hand. It's still vastly better for my blood pressure than the other thing.
got rings?
Sep. 21st, 2008 10:43 pmRings owned by Red Sox current active roster members: Drew Crisp Kotsay (for Florida) Cora Pedroia Delcarmen Matsuzaka Beckett 2 (1 for Florida) Youkilis 2 Lowell 3 (1 for the Yankees and 1 for Florida) Lester Varitek 2 Ortiz 2 Okajima Hansack Ellsbury Lopez Wakefield 2 Timlin 4 (2 for Toronto) Bailey Papelbon
Total: 31, of which 25 earned in Boston.
rings owned by Yankees current active roster members: Jeter 4 I. Rodriguez (for Florida) Damon (for Boston) Moeller (for Arizona) Molina (for Anaheim) Marte (for the White Sox) Rivera 4 Pavano (for Florida) Pettite 4 Ponson (for St. Louis)
Total: 19, of which 12 earned in New York.
Total: 31, of which 25 earned in Boston.
rings owned by Yankees current active roster members: Jeter 4 I. Rodriguez (for Florida) Damon (for Boston) Moeller (for Arizona) Molina (for Anaheim) Marte (for the White Sox) Rivera 4 Pavano (for Florida) Pettite 4 Ponson (for St. Louis)
Total: 19, of which 12 earned in New York.
the season that wouldn't end
Oct. 1st, 2007 10:45 pmToday's Rockies-Padres tiebreaker game has just gone into extra innings.
a full day
Jul. 8th, 2007 02:08 amGot up in leisurely fashion and watched a bit of the Tour de France prologue while drinking my coffee and getting ready to head out the door. Got in the car just as Car Talk was starting, got a bagel, stopped in to say hi to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
roozle, and made it out to Readercon almost but not quite in time to catch infinitehotel's reading. Did manage to make it to three or four hours of very shiny programming and take lots of notes to stuff into Arisia's brainstorm process. Interestingly for such a book-oriented con most of my notes were about media. Hooked up with Rene and passed off a bunch of party supplies and then headed back in to town for a lovely dinner with miss_chance and some time with her in the early evening before hopping in the car and listening to the seventh and eighth innings of the Sox-Tigers game on the way to deguspice's party. Spent a lovely hour or two there and then listened to the twelfth and thirteenth innings on the way back to Readercon to spend a bit of time at the Montreal party. That seemed to be going pretty well and was a good enough time that I never made it to the Boskone party that I'd meant to at least stop in at.
This is my favorite kind of full day: lots of variety and no pressure.
roozle, and made it out to Readercon almost but not quite in time to catch infinitehotel's reading. Did manage to make it to three or four hours of very shiny programming and take lots of notes to stuff into Arisia's brainstorm process. Interestingly for such a book-oriented con most of my notes were about media. Hooked up with Rene and passed off a bunch of party supplies and then headed back in to town for a lovely dinner with miss_chance and some time with her in the early evening before hopping in the car and listening to the seventh and eighth innings of the Sox-Tigers game on the way to deguspice's party. Spent a lovely hour or two there and then listened to the twelfth and thirteenth innings on the way back to Readercon to spend a bit of time at the Montreal party. That seemed to be going pretty well and was a good enough time that I never made it to the Boskone party that I'd meant to at least stop in at.This is my favorite kind of full day: lots of variety and no pressure.
twenty things
Oct. 9th, 2005 12:44 pm- Wow, is it a relief now that the Arisia panic of the last two weeks is over.
- Maybe too much of a relief: there are lots of other things I was deferring until the end of that panic, and none of them are registering in the top ten things I'm psyched to do today.
- I love that first hour between getting up and eating breakfast. It's one of my most productive hours of the day, or if I'm not using it for being productive it at least launches me quickly into whatever I'm doing.
- This does not make me a morning person. I'm still in that first hour, and it's well after noon.
- But the hour is nearly over, and it's time to make pancakes.
- Which means it's time to go get milk.
- Haven't I made an LJ post like this before?
- I'll just have to read my entire LJ history looking for it.
- (hours later) Man, modern Palm apps sure need a whole lot of different icons. I'm getting to know Photoshop awfully well given that my primary mode of geekery isn't visual.
- That's funny, given that I'm awfully visual in general.
- (yet more hours later) Is there a 14th-inning stretch for games that go that long? The 7th inning was a long, long time ago by the time tonight's 18-inning Astros-Braves game was over.
- So far the better team has won each of the Division Series.
- I don't usually like watching TV. But I'm psyched about the Lost DVDs that miss_chance and I are going through. I don't think the difference is the lack of commercials (though that's nice). I think the difference is the lack of a laugh track.
- Why do I charge money for my Palm software? It's not like it's a significant amount of money. Maybe I'm looking for validation: someone likes my program enough to pay $20 for it. Or, I suspect, they like the program I give away for free enough that they want to give me $20 and buying the non-free one is the way to do that. Maybe I should go to a shareware model for that one. I do like having free software out there, though; it makes me feel better about using free software from other people. Hmm.
- I'm definitely looking for validation when I write LJ entries. Which is probably why I agonize over them, which in turn is why I post so seldom.
- Fresh, hot cinnamon bread! I love living with housemates for a million reasons, but right now the easiest way to my heart is the old standby.
- Long weekends are a good thing, but they're not infinite.
- Laundry is, however, infinite.
- I was going to clean off my desk today, and instead I played with projects on my computer. That was all well and good, but my computer projects are starting to bump up against my desk not being clean.
- It's not even that my desk is all that messy right now. But horizontal surfaces accumulate things until they are full. Maybe a smaller desk would be better.
This meme is supposed to conclude with me tagging some people and telling them what to do. No, thanks: the meme should be obvious, and you can do with it what you will.
the world might not be ending after all
Oct. 8th, 2003 10:43 amSome say that a Sox-Cubs World Series would result in the apocalypse, as that would be the only way to keep either team from winning. But as much as I'd like to see that matchup, it's looking a bit less likely today: the Chicago Cubs managed to blow a 3-run lead to lose in 11 innings in game 1 of the NLCS.
I refuse to admit the possibility that the apocalypse could be averted by the Sox losing to the Yankees in the ALCS.
I refuse to admit the possibility that the apocalypse could be averted by the Sox losing to the Yankees in the ALCS.
