We went to the dentist last week. KJ had fewer cavities than she expected, which pleased her ( Read more... )

KJ and I went to the Cardinals-Dodgers game last night. We splurged on $50 seats, since we had a thingy for 50% off two seats. Down nearish the field, past first base ( Read more... )

Cardinals announcer just said that, over in the Phillies-Mets game, the Phillies pitcher threw his first eighteen pitches for strikes. What did the Phillies fans do when the next one was a ball? They booed.

Dental appointment. Had a bit of a shadow on one x-ray, but that was decided to be a false alarm ( Read more... )

Penny's been skittish about the wind over the past week or so. She's never been fond of sudden loud noises (on a related note, she seemed to shy away from the roadway on a walk last week before I'd even realized that there was a vehicle--a motorcycle, as it happens--coming up behind us), and the storm door in back has never been fond of staying on ( Read more... )

From here.

Pujols, whose Pujols Family Foundation has lent much to the Down syndrome cause as well as support for the underprivileged in the Dominican Republic, said, "I'm truly honored to receive this award ( Read more... )

I wish the media would SHUT UP ALREADY about "oh noes, small markets = small ratings". We all know that if the networks had their way, it would be the Yankees versus the West Coast or Cubs nineteen years out of twenty. Shut up and stop talking the people who watch baseball for the baseball into believing they don't care and won't watch if their own ( Read more... )

I was at a Borders bookstore just now, and in the Bargains stuff out front were several copies of a paperback. Voyages of Imagination or something like that. It was basically a "Star Trek novel Companion ( Read more... )

Wow, the Cardinals and Reds are really smacking each other around right now ( Read more... )

The NHL has been back for over a year, yes, but are the fans really and truly back ( Read more... )