Collateral Damage

sarudy

01:10 am - Yesterday's News

Did I tweet yesterday? I did!

14:48 Booze for a good cause - tinyurl.com/6l6bsw (Red Cross Wine Tasting -- North Plainfield NJ -May 31) #

14:49 Stop by your local Dunkin' Donuts on Thursday May 15, 2008 from 10am until 10pm and receive a FREE small (16 oz.) sized Iced Coffee. #

14:54 The beverage theme of my last two tweets is entirely co-incidental. #

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01:01 am - ESPN commercial….

http://38pitches.com/2008/05/15/espn-commercial/

http://38pitches.wordpress.com/?p=175

Is funny. Can’t help but laugh at it. They asked me to be a part of the shoot but it was done during spring training and I didn’t think flying up to Orlando for the day and back was the smart thing to do when not being able to play and going through rehab. Love Peter Gammons as Tito, rubbing his head.

After everything that’s happened and all that has been said and done I laughed. I have yet to see one they have done that wasn’t funny.

Much needed day off for the guys. This has to be one of the weirdest schedules I’ve ever been part of.

Watch out for the Rays. People made all kinds of fun of me last year when I mentioned that would be a place to consider, luckily for them I didn’t, but that’s a good young team. Joe Maddon is one of the men responsible for my career and I think the world of the guy, and I think they’ve got immense amounts of young talent. Troy having a bit of a revival has certainly helped too. Great to see him back in the game and doing fantastic, couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. They’re going to be good for a long time, and in a tough division, and from what I understand they’ve just scraped the surface on the wealth of young pitching talent they’ve got coming up.

My rehab is going well. We’ve increased the workload and distance in my throwing program and so far so good.

38 Studios has made a few more hires recently and I just cannot grasp the talent level we have, team wide, in the company at this stage. Lots happening and still so much to do.

Doesn’t look like we’ll have the desired (by me anyway) coming out party at SD Comic Con this year, for about a billion reasons. The main one is that we just aren’t ready to do it and if we were to go through with it, we’d be intruding on development as well as pushing things that aren’t ready. We’ll still be there and we’ll certainly have something to show, but it won’t be the ‘lift our skirts’ to the world I said it might be last year.

harriet_spy

03:17 pm

California Supreme Court finds state distinction between marriage and domestic partnership unconstitutional, thus making gay marriage legal (opinion).

dagnabit

03:03 pm - Just curious

Does anyone reading this homeschool?  I know about Barbara, but as far as I know, that's it.   Because virtually all of my posts are public I'm never exactly sure who's reading this.  If you do homeschool, leave a comment.  As always, anonymous comments are welcome, just put a name in there somewhere so I don't feel like I'm talking to the wall.

Current Mood: cheerful

deceptiverose

08:57 am - Meme!

You Are Very Happy

Your life is totally together, and you enjoy every day. And you don't need a quiz to tell you that! You know how to find pleasure in the little things... And even when life isn't so great, you have a good sense of perspective.

sarudy

01:10 am - Yesterday's News

Did I tweet yesterday? I did!

12:51 The Passively Multiplayer Online Game seems interesting, but I don't know if it's good for anything - (pmog.com) #

12:52 I guess PMOG is kind of like Twitter that way... #

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harriet_spy

09:53 pm - Back

Whew.

Did you know that the price of a roundtrip subway fare in central London is now ten and a half dollars? I have no idea how the starving young American grad students survive now. It was tough enough back when the pound was at 1.25:1 or so to the dollar.

sarudy

01:11 am - Yesterday's News

Did I tweet yesterday? I did!

09:23 I feel much better today. Still a little off, but that could be the weather change. #

09:33 A surreal use of "scare quotes" -- 'See the attached "attachments" for your review.' #

12:02 Mass? Or Zombie Takeover? -- tinyurl.com/48qhur #

12:06 A Landfill? Or Lasagna? -- tinyurl.com/6h95oj #

13:27 I found out yesterday that our local Trader Joe's enters you in a gift card drawing if you bring your own bag. Keen. #

13:27 A fellow customer admired the bag as well. Yay for Xmas presents. tinyurl.com/3hmtkd #

14:14 There's no proof this is genuine, but Panthro! tinyurl.com/682yup (ostensibly a model for the Thundercats movie) #

16:29 @wintersweet Thanks, now the @BreakingNewsOn thing is freaking me out, too! #

16:44 @wintersweet The actual news story is a bit less alarming. tinyurl.com/6n5b5m #

19:22 The time-traveling lesbians plucked baby Moses from the river. "Right, This religion is going to see some changes..." is.gd/gaz #

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deltasheets

04:14 pm - May 13th

When I wrote the date this morning, I kept thinking, "This day is significant some how."  But I couldn't remember why.

I just figured it out.  

I graduated today in 2000.  I also got tattoo'd on this date 14 years ago. 

lfs

11:31 am - Updates...

Current Mood: tired

dagnabit

01:39 pm - What we're up to today

Remember last time I said we were all about the birds lately?  Well, we've decided to do a bit of an experiment. 

Current Mood: content

09:03 am - I'm not really a picture person

( They say a picture is worth a thousand words ... )

Current Mood: excited

sarudy

01:12 am - Yesterday's News

Did I tweet yesterday? I did!

09:12 Raining; delayed by a downed tree getting to work; started hurting with breakfast; going to bail to see doc 2pm. Lousy day so far. #

10:00 A dissenting view on Iron Man, with which I cannot entirely disagree - tinyurl.com/4qy3br #

16:03 Pain was gone by the time I saw the doc, but he think it was sinusitis. Worth half a sick day just to get 2 hours to crash before I GM. #

16:03 Didn't really sleep last night on account of pain, and feel like crap. #

bbendick

10:07 pm - News Crawl

Our CBS affiliate has introduced a news crawl across their nightly news. I found it so annoying and pointless I bothered to offer feedback on their website. Of course, trying to find the feedback was frustrating too…

karzender

11:56 am - Happy Mother's Day!

dagnabit

10:49 am

I know I've not really updated in a long time, but that's primarily because not only would nothing we do interest anyone but us, I haven't had a lot of reliable time at the computer in the last couple of weeks. I type and think and edit very, very slowly and I can almost never be certain of an uninterrupted block of time with which to write. When I get interrupted, my train of thought leaves me boarding at the station and then I need to start over again at some previous point. Occasionally, that means back at the beginning. It's a little OCD-ish.

But things are good. The kids have been generally very good since we got back. We've been doing a lot of nature walks and "hey, look! What's that?" kinds of things. We've all developed an unforeseen interest in birds over the last couple of weeks and we find ourselves sitting in the back yard with guidebooks in our laps and our cheap, blurry binoculars at our sides trying to figure out what's what. Ruthie is surprisingly good at it and her enthusiasm is catching. Ben's always loved birds- I think one of his very fist phrases was "boo-ful BIRD!" (translation: "That's a lovely bird there, Mother."). He can see a tiny bird sitting on a branch as we wizz by at 65 mph. I'm not looking forward to the "what's that bird?" phase that I'm sure is coming. It was bad enough with Jonah's inability to explain what he was asking about. It's like a battle royal of car annoyances: "MAMA! What's that purple?" vs. "MAMA! What's that tiny bird we passed a quarter mile on the left?"

School for the kids is trucking along quite nicely. They're learning and enjoying what we're doing so I'm not sure I can ask for more. I'm considering getting Rosetta Stone for them (and me) with our bribery check.

Incidentally, it's wrong of me, but I'm irrationally irritated that since we always owe a little bit, we'll almost certainly get a paper check in like, July. Since Duane's SSN ends in the nineties, that's not even an exaggeration. But we don't need the money and I don't like the entire idea of it anyway so I can't really kvetch about it.


Bah. Interruption. Feh.

Interrupted by Jonah coming in to complain about some imagined slight on my part by not taking him to the craft store to buy new wooden toy kits for him to put together, no less. Jonah's become an Olympic caliber complainer over the last year or so and I'm kind of at a loss on how to deal with it. It really drives me nuts, but no amount of correcting (gentle or otherwise) has put a dent in it. He lives a sweet, sweet life. It's full of toys and fun and people who love him. There is nothing in there to complain about except that the sky doesn't rain bliss down upon him every morning like manna from the heavens. If I make him his favorite breakfast ever (like I did this morning), he's complaining because he didn't get the biggest pancake. If we go to the park to play he's complaining because it doesn't allow bikes on the paths. If he gets a treat at the grocery store, on the way home he's complaining that he didn't get 2 treats. Note with the last one, he waits until he's in the car because he knows that if he did that in the store he'd lose his original treat and he bitches about it even though he's never gotten 2 treats and only rarely gets 1.

Oh, and while I'm at it, what's with small people looking out the window and calling across the room to ask if it's raining. Or looking at the digital clock and asking me what time it is. They can tell time! They can see weather! Argggg!

Advice, LJ-ers? I had other stuff to say but now it's flown from my mind. Life is good, even if I'm a wee bit scatterbrained.

Current Mood: cheerful

03:10 am - A song for CFIDS Awareness Day

Hey gang.

The short version: My band, Cinder Bridge, has a new song up on Myspace. It's written from the perspective of someone with undiagnosed CFIDS, aka ME, aka chronic fatigue syndrome. You can find it here:

myspace.com/cinderbridge

The longer version of why we're doing this is here:

cinderbridge.blogspot.com

sarudy

01:07 am - Yesterday's News

Did I tweet yesterday? I did!

11:49 Thinking about errand running. #

19:08 Saw Speed Racer. Screw the naysayers. I was amused. #

harriet_spy

03:21 am - Sherman's March

As is now traditional whenever we gather, this week liviapenn and I watched Sherman's March, one of J.Flan's many pilots. The sad thing is that you can tell that once the show had a script which was at least sporadically witty, but then it was rewritten at least six times to make it into the spectacular mess it ended up as.

Nonetheless, it features a J.Flan character (a) drunk (b) making out on the dance floor and (c) getting a blow job. (Not all at once!) That's enough to make it worth watching, though really for the full experience it must be viewed in a fannish group and with the aid of alcoholic beverages.

Anyway, although I originally got the file from (I believe) Zoe Rayne, I don't think it's up anymore, so:

Sherman's March

I'm leaving the country tomorrow, so please excuse any failure to respond to comments, emails, etc.

sarudy

01:09 am - Yesterday's News

Did I tweet yesterday? I did!

09:19 Must... do... homework. Why do I have homework, again? #

19:04 Happy Mother's Day to those who are or still have mothers. #

22:51 The omega cat wants to be petted. All of the cats farther up the hierarchy must be elsewhere. #