I'm trying out the TypePad app for iPhone for the first time ever - moblogging comes to yours truly. Got nothin' better to do since I'm on the DC2NY bus home to the Big Apple and we're not even out of Maryland yet. It's this or the cheesy 800-page historical fiction novel Mom lent me. I'm about 530 pages in and anticipating giving it a meh review of three stars. But I digress.
Had a great, fantastic weekend with Christy in Annapolis. Wish it didn't have to end so quickly. We went out to a local waterfront restaurant with two of her friends on Friday night, then walked around Annapolis yesterday. The center of town was cute and so were the Naval Academy boys in uniform (although jeez did they seem young - when did *that* happen?). Got some interesting sushi for lunch. Escolar = oishii. Rockfish, not so much. Note to self: next time I'll just have it cooked.
Went to the Orioles-Yanks game at Camden Yards last night. It was a sellout crowd and the place was jumping. I grabbed a microbrew that was pretty good although not as memorable as that Fat Tire I ran across in Santa Cruz earlier this month. Got a marriage proposal from a Yankee fan about fifteen minutes after meeting him. I think it was the fact that I knew a split-finger fastball from a knuckleball. Or that he was crazy. What kind of Yankee fan proposes to a Sox fan anyway?
There was an agitated, slightly drunk man wearing a pink shirt who looked like Chris Parnell a few rows deeper into the left field side of the stands. He whooped the crowd up into doing the wave as if he were leading us into battle. It was actually pretty impressive how Mr. Pink got the whole ballpark doing it. Well done, slightly overly intense drunk superfan.
Last night's game was the second game I'd attended in a week, the last one being a thrilling Mets victory over the Braves at Shea on Tuesday night. (I've adopted the Mets as my NL team after having lived in Queens for the past six years, but that's another post.) Due to an impulsive fit of Sox fandom on my part I am now going to this Tuesday's Sox-Yankees game at Yankee Stadium. It'll be their last series in the House That Ruth Built and I'll be there in my Sox regalia to drive the final nail in the coffin (just kidding... okay maybe not). Can't wait. Now that is an example of splurging on the right thing at the right time. I know how awesome that's going to be for someone who's wired like me and therefore I am very happy to take a couple more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to work in order to make the magic possible. So go Sox! (And yay on the big win today against the Jays in extra innings! Woot!)
So here we are rolling along the highway somewhere in Delaware now but I am already thinking about The Next Fun Thing. More on the way now that I have the time to stop and smell the roses again.
Here's another to remember about escolar
http://www.knbc.com/newslinks/1773988/detail.html
Posted by: rl | September 19, 2008 at 04:26 PM