August 28, 2008 – 8:40 PM
Today is a day that will live in infamy.
Instant replay has come to Major League Baseball.
Sure, it’s only for “boundary calls” on home runs. For now, at least.
The door has opened. While even I don’t ever foresee instant replay being used for balls and strikes, how long will it be before it’s approved for close [...]
August 28, 2008 – 2:45 PM
I am convinced today is Friday.
Tomorrow morning will be a real bummer.
August 26, 2008 – 11:08 AM
This morning’s conversation:
Me: BD, I was very proud of you last night when you got off the phone right away when I asked you to.
BD: Yeah, well I knew if I didn’t you’d get on the extension and that’s just too freaky.
August 22, 2008 – 5:29 PM
I was out the door before Mr. B this morning, heading to my weekly Bible study. From there, I went to the middle school to laminate pocket rosters so the field hockey parents can tell the players apart. Then it was off to one of my part-time jobs for a few hours, after [...]
August 21, 2008 – 8:55 AM
It was bad enough when I learned that one of BD’s current teachers had gone to high school with HS. At least she was two years ahead of him in school.
Then I got to chatting with teacher who helps coach BD’s field hockey team. She, too, knows HS.
Because he went to school with her sister. [...]
August 18, 2008 – 8:36 AM
HS: (Calling to let us know he was leaving his fiancee Nashville yesterday afternoon to return to Kentucky for the new school year): I’ll probably just be a little ball of depression at dinner.
August 12, 2008 – 6:29 PM
Earlier this summer, Mr. B, BD and I went to Nashville to visit HS and LDIL. We loaded the five of us into the aptly named Fit, and wandered around town.
At one point, Mr. B pulled into a parking lot. Maybe it was the steep grade at the entrance and maybe it was [...]
The Name Game (stolen from Groovy)
1.Your rock star name (first pet, current car)
Midnight Mazda
2. Your gangsta name (favorite ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe)
Mocha Sandal
3. Your Native American name (favorite color, favorite animal)
Blue Cat
4. Your soap opera name (middle name, city where you were born)
Elizabeth Batavia
5. Your Star Wars name [...]
