royals losing by five...okay, royals tied...all while typing this
And, again, the Royals are failing to give any run support to Shields. *sigh*
Last night was interesting, in that I taped the Royals starting at 7:00 and watched Le Tour while eating dinner and baking soda bread (to go with my Irish stew tomorrow but also for breakfast because, damn the carbs, nummmmmmmmmm). Went to my 8:00 meeting at church in an occasional sprinkle. Tiny storms had been popping up and circling around us since around 5:00. It looked like it was lightly raining in KC. Saw a double rainbow over the church.
Had a productive meeting and got home around 8:50. Drove past two fireworks stands that were doing booming business, people just pouring into them. I guess enough people have a place to go in the county to shoot them off or just don't expect to get caught in the city. Anyway...Watched the rest of Le Tour for about ten minutes and then turned on the Royals.
Two and a half hour rain delay. It barely sprinkled on us all night but rained lightly but constantly in KC. So about the time I finished fast forwarding to the point where the times synched, the game actually started.
We did actually win around 1:00 this morning. We're not going to win today. They've scored two more since I started this post.
Feels like a Saturday what with no work and an afternoon game.
After the game I'll shower and head over to the parents' for dinner. Then hopefully will have some energy to write when I get home.
I've been playing Angry Birds Star Wars the last couple of nights instead of being productive.
I think I'll go see World War Z this weekend--despite not really liking Pitt, it not being true zombies, or nothing like the book (which I haven't read so not a biggie).
I will go to church for our guest speaker even though I'm not singing now, so could go after that. There's a 12:45 showing and I usually get out of church by around 12:15--theater's on the way home and when I have a big breakfast I don't eat lunch usually anyway.
Elektra's sleeping on the treadmill. At least someone's getting use out of it.
A couple weeks ago in a storm my very tall and starting to bloom yucca stalk fell over; apparently it also dragged the plant out of the ground enough to kill it.
Dad's garden dude came and cleaned up all the damn little trees everywhere. Also dug up the mullein. :( I know it's a weed, but I like it. If the Duke of Devonshire can have it growing in his garden paths... For some reason, he also cut down the Russian sage but it'll come back next year. Not going to complain--it was free work, thanks to dad paying. He also cut a branch out of my crabapple tree. I guess it was dead. I hadn't even noticed.
So, happy Independence Day to those who celebrate! I always get a bit choked up thinking about it. Also watched the "Too Late to Apologize" video.
My online newspaper site which, yes, is free and doesn't make you sign up for an account to read stuff, has partnered with Google to have stupid poll questions show up on the first article you click on in a 24 hour period. To read anything past the first sentence you have to either answer the poll or post a link to the article on social media. I refuse to USE social media (is this social media?). I complained on one of the forums and actually got a kind of whiny excuse email from someone at the paper. Whatever. The online article about the partnering? Couldn't comment on it. Believe me, the ranters on the forum are blasting them for being cowards about that and complaining on all the other forums (each article has a forum to comment on unless it's sensitive and they've disabled commenting). Someone suggested just randomly guessing, or choosing the answer that's not true for you. Brilliant. Skew the results.
Yes, again, free, but on Independence Day I'll just be petty, thank you very much. I hate this forced connectiveness (what this really is is that they want you to post on Facebook or Twitter about an article). I've mentioned that before. I hate that every place I click on the web there's those stupid symbols "post to FB or tweet to say you like this!" crap. I'm really not happy that apparently espn.com is going to make you have a Facebook to comment on their site (not that I ever do but there's a principle here). I actually pay espn to read all their articles, some of the best columns are pay only, including a lot during March Madness. Will definitely be cancelling that.
Okay, we now have the bases loaded no outs. We had that last night in the 8th, though, and failed to score (we were already up by one, thankfully).
Sorry about the rant but free speech and all that. One of the things we fought for in 1776. :)
The service next week that we met about is going to be about stories of courage. I decided to do the courage of early feminists to get suffrage (we have a great hymn/feminist song from that era in our hymnal we'll sing--Something about bread and roses.) And then today I also watched the Bad Romance Suffrage video. :)
The lead singer looks so much like Dru. Though she would have probably eaten suffragettes. *g*
FUCKING GRAND SLAM!!! OMG and it was the Sonic grand slam inning! If a grand slam is hit in the 6th, the person chosen wins $25000!!!! It's never happened! Hell, we've had four grand slams this year already (one earlier in the week!) and some years recently we've never had any!
And there's the barbecue sauce!
I have no clue why my cats, who got fed breakfast a good half hour later than normal due to sleeping in, thought that because I got up to heat up coffee at 2:30 it was dinner time...
Nice to see both Giles and Spike together on Warehouse 13. :)
Heh! We've tied now with another home run! One pitch off the reliever, belted to right by our catcher.
This post is all over the place.
Last night was interesting, in that I taped the Royals starting at 7:00 and watched Le Tour while eating dinner and baking soda bread (to go with my Irish stew tomorrow but also for breakfast because, damn the carbs, nummmmmmmmmm). Went to my 8:00 meeting at church in an occasional sprinkle. Tiny storms had been popping up and circling around us since around 5:00. It looked like it was lightly raining in KC. Saw a double rainbow over the church.
Had a productive meeting and got home around 8:50. Drove past two fireworks stands that were doing booming business, people just pouring into them. I guess enough people have a place to go in the county to shoot them off or just don't expect to get caught in the city. Anyway...Watched the rest of Le Tour for about ten minutes and then turned on the Royals.
Two and a half hour rain delay. It barely sprinkled on us all night but rained lightly but constantly in KC. So about the time I finished fast forwarding to the point where the times synched, the game actually started.
We did actually win around 1:00 this morning. We're not going to win today. They've scored two more since I started this post.
Feels like a Saturday what with no work and an afternoon game.
After the game I'll shower and head over to the parents' for dinner. Then hopefully will have some energy to write when I get home.
I've been playing Angry Birds Star Wars the last couple of nights instead of being productive.
I think I'll go see World War Z this weekend--despite not really liking Pitt, it not being true zombies, or nothing like the book (which I haven't read so not a biggie).
I will go to church for our guest speaker even though I'm not singing now, so could go after that. There's a 12:45 showing and I usually get out of church by around 12:15--theater's on the way home and when I have a big breakfast I don't eat lunch usually anyway.
Elektra's sleeping on the treadmill. At least someone's getting use out of it.
A couple weeks ago in a storm my very tall and starting to bloom yucca stalk fell over; apparently it also dragged the plant out of the ground enough to kill it.
Dad's garden dude came and cleaned up all the damn little trees everywhere. Also dug up the mullein. :( I know it's a weed, but I like it. If the Duke of Devonshire can have it growing in his garden paths... For some reason, he also cut down the Russian sage but it'll come back next year. Not going to complain--it was free work, thanks to dad paying. He also cut a branch out of my crabapple tree. I guess it was dead. I hadn't even noticed.
So, happy Independence Day to those who celebrate! I always get a bit choked up thinking about it. Also watched the "Too Late to Apologize" video.
My online newspaper site which, yes, is free and doesn't make you sign up for an account to read stuff, has partnered with Google to have stupid poll questions show up on the first article you click on in a 24 hour period. To read anything past the first sentence you have to either answer the poll or post a link to the article on social media. I refuse to USE social media (is this social media?). I complained on one of the forums and actually got a kind of whiny excuse email from someone at the paper. Whatever. The online article about the partnering? Couldn't comment on it. Believe me, the ranters on the forum are blasting them for being cowards about that and complaining on all the other forums (each article has a forum to comment on unless it's sensitive and they've disabled commenting). Someone suggested just randomly guessing, or choosing the answer that's not true for you. Brilliant. Skew the results.
Yes, again, free, but on Independence Day I'll just be petty, thank you very much. I hate this forced connectiveness (what this really is is that they want you to post on Facebook or Twitter about an article). I've mentioned that before. I hate that every place I click on the web there's those stupid symbols "post to FB or tweet to say you like this!" crap. I'm really not happy that apparently espn.com is going to make you have a Facebook to comment on their site (not that I ever do but there's a principle here). I actually pay espn to read all their articles, some of the best columns are pay only, including a lot during March Madness. Will definitely be cancelling that.
Okay, we now have the bases loaded no outs. We had that last night in the 8th, though, and failed to score (we were already up by one, thankfully).
Sorry about the rant but free speech and all that. One of the things we fought for in 1776. :)
The service next week that we met about is going to be about stories of courage. I decided to do the courage of early feminists to get suffrage (we have a great hymn/feminist song from that era in our hymnal we'll sing--Something about bread and roses.) And then today I also watched the Bad Romance Suffrage video. :)
The lead singer looks so much like Dru. Though she would have probably eaten suffragettes. *g*
FUCKING GRAND SLAM!!! OMG and it was the Sonic grand slam inning! If a grand slam is hit in the 6th, the person chosen wins $25000!!!! It's never happened! Hell, we've had four grand slams this year already (one earlier in the week!) and some years recently we've never had any!
And there's the barbecue sauce!
I have no clue why my cats, who got fed breakfast a good half hour later than normal due to sleeping in, thought that because I got up to heat up coffee at 2:30 it was dinner time...
Nice to see both Giles and Spike together on Warehouse 13. :)
Heh! We've tied now with another home run! One pitch off the reliever, belted to right by our catcher.
This post is all over the place.