Odd moment of the day: apparently I am related to a professional boxer named Billy Graham. He's a Hall of Famer.

I need to start punching things to see if I inherited any of these skills. I think he might be my maternal great-grandmother's brother (my mom's great-uncle). This is actually really exciting.

In other news, I'm finally getting hanachan01 to watch ( Read more... )

I was rather busy today - I spent the day with my friends, whom I hadn't seen in weeks - so this is a bit of a delayed post. We listened to most of the game together, which I didn't know we had won because for some reason we didn't listen to the end. Here's the day in bullets:

~ Got my friends to watch Oofuri. They are both hooked.
~ Went out to ( Read more... )

I've arrived back at my other residence, The Other Place Where I Live, and I come bearing news - the ALCS and NLCS are both set! Our matchups are the Diamondbacks vs. the Rockies, a Western Division showdown, and the Indians vs. the Red Sox.

Yeah, in case you haven't heard, the Yankees lost. Yay.

The NLCS officially kicks off on Thursday, whilst the ( Read more... )

Today is an off-day, so I'll just share a few reasons why I love the internet.

You have to enjoy the fact that blogs you read can turn up baby pictures of the people on your favorite baseball team. Here's a nice set I came across on one of the blogs I regularly read today - I'd already seen the one of Jacoby Ellsbury and one of the Varitek ones, but ( Read more... )

A 10-1 victory is certainly a nice way to rebound from yesterday's loss, wouldn't you say? I'm sure the event has been well-covered by this point, so I'll just go over the better points of the game.

It didn't start off the way I wanted it to, that's for sure. Jeter hit a solo home run off of Josh Beckett, and already things were looking rather grim ( Read more... )

Well, today is the sixth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Normally I wouldn't bring up such a serious topic, but my father was in the air that day - specifically, his plane left from Newark and was two gates away from the planes used to fly into the Towers. He saw those passengers just hours before they were killed. I remember ( Read more... )

Well, it's official. The Red Sox have become my fandom.

For the first time last night, I began imagining the players interacting with one another off the field (probably because I read about how Jacoby Ellsbury and Clay Buchholz are roommates and friends) and various things they could do. I haven't slid into the realm of fanfiction yet - I ( Read more... )

Three times in a row. Honestly. You think they could have let us win one.

I'm not going to complain, though, because we've still got a five-game lead in the AL East. That stands for something. We're playing Baltimore at home tonight, and in one week we're playing them away. I'll be at one of the games, actually, so I'll let you know how that goes ( Read more... )

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Right, so I haven't updated in a few days. Don't worry, not much has happened.

The only big news was the foiling of a terror plot to attack Fort Dix in New Jersey. The terrorists were apparently hiding out in Cherry Hill. As a resident of New Jersey, I can say that I was not pleased to receive this news, but I was relieved that law enforcement ( Read more... )