Defending ARod

As much as I hate it, because I genuinely dislike the guy, I think the bashing of Alex Rodriguez has reached a preposterous height.  When I was in New York for the last Red Sox-Yankees series, I had to watch the YES network feed of the game.  Michael Kay, the scratchy-voiced television announcer for the Yankees, [...]

Manny Fallout

Everyone who knows me knows I’m a Red Sox fan, so I got a lot of questions about the Manny Ramirez trade when it happened.  Most people presumed I would be disappointed that the Sox traded away a future Hall of Famer, but that wasn’t the case.  I wasn’t thrilled with the terms of the [...]

Leaving Sucks

I am off to lovely Armonk, New York on business again today.  I’ll be gone until Wednesday evening, so it’s not a terribly long trip.  Still, I will miss the first day of school for my kids, and I’ll miss the first day of football practice for my son.  That kind of sucks.

Pigeon? Seriously?

The entire John Edwards affair thing holds almost no interest for me.  Gee, another politician turned out to be a lying snake who cheated on his wife.  Wow, what a shocker.  This is news?  Tell me when you find a politician who didn’t cheat on his wife and get caught lying about it.  That’s news.

Royal-Class Customer Service

Even though I’m really a Red Sox fan, I own season tickets to the Kansas City Royals.  Quite simply, I’m a baseball junkie, and I need my regular fix.  We don’t go hog wild and get a full-season package for four people; Even I’m not that big a junkie, and these are the Royals we’re [...]

Buying Crap

When we go on vacation, we come back with a lot more stuff than we took with us. For my wife, shopping in a new place and buying mementos is half the fun of going on vacation, and she takes full advantage of every trip. In fact, we regularly pack an empty duffel bag on [...]

5K Update

After a week of eating out during vacation, I’m pretty pleased with the fact that I didn’t really gain back any weight.  I’m still down nine total pounds, which is good.  The bad news is that we got out of our walking rhythm, so the past couple of days we haven’t gone as long as [...]

Vacation – The Final Day

As you can see, this wasn’t a very long trip.  We drove Tuesday morning, spent three full days, then drove back home Saturday morning.  Pretty quick, but enough to re-charge my batteries and let us all spend some time together.

Vacation – Day 3

We originally had no big plans for this day of our vacation.  With a long, hot day planned for Wednesday at Six Flags, and another one planned for Friday, when we figured to tour downtown and see a Cardinal game, Thursday was set aside to be more low key.  Among our options were just chilling [...]

Vacation – Day 2

Forget all of the good things I’ve ever said about Google Maps. (Actually, I’m not sure I’ve ever said anything good about Google Maps on this site, so consider this a preemptive plea to ignore me if I do.) By trusting that the good people at Google know what they’re doing, my family [...]