Weird mental associations
Okay, first, I'm using that icon as encouragement. I was watching the match vs. Brandt and hiding my eyes in the second set tie-break, thinking that things were not going well, when the momentum just swung the other way at 0-3. Still, no more scares like that, please?
Second: the camo-accents on the O's and Nats' uniforms today looked weird. The grey of the uniforms and the khaki of the camouflage looked washed out and sickly together. But the O's had a good day, so \o/
3d: Fort McHenry was beautiful, as usual. Foot traffic was higher than usual and a park ranger was directing people to various parking lots. Possibly noticeable only to someone visits often, the grass is a little overgrown; not terribly so, and it's groomed in a way to look sort of naturally a little wild. But I'm guessing a smaller grounds maintenance budget is a function of sequestration. :(
Today's weird mental association: the MASN announcer was talking about the Nats' Kyle Suzuki, which my ears heard as Carl Suzuki at first. Which made me wonder who Carl Suzuki was. The answer: a character in a YA series I read as a tween/teen, the love interest in the early books of a YA mystery series. I cannot remember the name of the series though. The heroine was a newspaper reporter, I think, and she ended up inheriting a fortune from her mentor and becoming a sort of amateur sleuth. I cannot remember her name (Delores, maybe? I don't know). The things I do remember: she had a car named The Flying Gumdrop; with the fortune she inherited a butler named Bruno who did not speak much and was an ex-con; and she was overweight -- at least one of the mysteries involved going to a health spa for weight loss treatments and discovering that other wealthy spa members had disappeared over time.
Why can't I remember the name of this series? Gah!
ETA: Behold the power of The Google! Courtesy of this library site and its Juvenile Fiction and Series compilation, I've learned that it was the Doris Fein series. OOP now it looks like, but I think I read them in hardback.
Second: the camo-accents on the O's and Nats' uniforms today looked weird. The grey of the uniforms and the khaki of the camouflage looked washed out and sickly together. But the O's had a good day, so \o/
3d: Fort McHenry was beautiful, as usual. Foot traffic was higher than usual and a park ranger was directing people to various parking lots. Possibly noticeable only to someone visits often, the grass is a little overgrown; not terribly so, and it's groomed in a way to look sort of naturally a little wild. But I'm guessing a smaller grounds maintenance budget is a function of sequestration. :(
Today's weird mental association: the MASN announcer was talking about the Nats' Kyle Suzuki, which my ears heard as Carl Suzuki at first. Which made me wonder who Carl Suzuki was. The answer: a character in a YA series I read as a tween/teen, the love interest in the early books of a YA mystery series. I cannot remember the name of the series though. The heroine was a newspaper reporter, I think, and she ended up inheriting a fortune from her mentor and becoming a sort of amateur sleuth. I cannot remember her name (Delores, maybe? I don't know). The things I do remember: she had a car named The Flying Gumdrop; with the fortune she inherited a butler named Bruno who did not speak much and was an ex-con; and she was overweight -- at least one of the mysteries involved going to a health spa for weight loss treatments and discovering that other wealthy spa members had disappeared over time.
Why can't I remember the name of this series? Gah!
ETA: Behold the power of The Google! Courtesy of this library site and its Juvenile Fiction and Series compilation, I've learned that it was the Doris Fein series. OOP now it looks like, but I think I read them in hardback.