Well, it was a nice run while it lasted, especially considering the injuries and where they were as late as mid-August. I thought Syndergaard was phenomenal last night and I felt bad for him when Familia gave up that home run. I guess it's time to root for the Cubs.

Wait 'til next year!

I did watch Brooklyn Nine Nine since the game didn't start ( Read more... )

For our listening pleasure, someone put together a youtube playlist of all the Gang Starr songs that are episode titles in Luke Cage.

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METS WIN! METS WIN!

Mets clinch the home field advantage in the wild card game! Woo! I am happy for them to get the chance to play for the privilege of being pasted by the Cubs in the NLDS! ♥

And I guess now I will begin Luke Cage.

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September 2016 writing roundup:

The Rumor of Rain (at AO3Star Wars; Shmi, Anakin, Obi-Wan, Luke, Rey; g ( Read more... )

They say there's no crying in baseball, but I cried through the tribute to Jose Fernandez (even the Mets TV broadcast team cried) - that was the most mournful version of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" I've ever heard - and again when Dee Gordon hit that home run. I feel like they could have called the game for the Marlins then and I'd have been all ( Read more... )

Well, I guess I'm a terrible fan, because I turned the Mets game off when they went down by two in the top of the 11th, not willing to watch another heartbreaking loss *shakes tiny ineffectual fist at Ender Inciarte*, but this morning I woke up to the news that Asdrubal Cabrera hit a three-run, game-winning home run in the bottom of the 11th. Woo! ( Read more... )

Ugh, the Mets. I hate the fucking Braves so much. I just don't understand some of the moves Terry Collins makes. I know I shouldn't second guess and there's no way to know what would have happened if he'd left Colon in or didn't pinch hit for Loney etc. and none of that even matters if Inciarte doesn't rob Cespedes at the end there. Sigh. At least ( Read more... )

Boss1 is going to be traveling starting tomorrow, so there's a bunch of stuff I'm trying to get off my desk before she goes. So many people are out on vacation, you'd think it'd be a quiet week, but not so much ( Read more... )

This morning, the bus pulled away as I was coming up on the bus stop, but then there was another bus behind it that was also going to roll through without stopping, so I had to wave my arms frantically to get it to stop, but it did. Whew. That usually doesn't happen! I thanked the driver profusely ( Read more... )

I'm trying to decide if I am going into work tomorrow as scheduled, or if my ear is still enough of a problem to stay home. On the one hand, it definitely hurts less now than it did earlier. On the other hand it still hurts and I won't be able to do the drops during the working day, because even with lying on my side with the affected ear up for ( Read more... )

I am coming to you live from my new 13" MacBook Pro, which I have decided to name BB-8, because it is small and cute. The old 15" MacBook Pro (aka Alexander III) is a true workhorse of a machine, but I just couldn't deal with the mostly non-working trackpad anymore, or the amount of time it took to open and save files and various other things that ( Read more... )