Year: 2004

From ESPN: “Can 86 years of hardship really end like this? Can the Red Sox sweep aside the ghosts in dominating fashion? Derek Lowe has thrown seven shutout innings in Game 4, as the Red Sox lead St. Louis 3-0 (ESPN Radio Live) in the eighth.”

I’m hoping! GO SOX!!! GO SOX!!! GO SOX!!!

UPDATE: Holy cow … we have a SWEEP!!! THEY WON!!! Go Sox! I’m so excited that they won that I had tears in my eyes! Christine, Jenn, Sam, Su, Erika, Jen, Shelly, BlogDaddy, IB … and everyone I’m forgetting right now (sorry, I know that list should be much longer) … I’ve been thinking of all of you! I’ve been cheering for the Sox! And I’m so glad they won! GO BOSTON!!!

My favorite sign in the stands? “86 years … SWEPT AWAY.” Awesome.

My 15 minutes of fame is kicked off with me all but tackling Matt in the Houston Press article regarding The Blog Age. I don’t think I charged him. However, he did set up my site, and I had been trying to get ahold of him to fix something that was broken and only he knew how to fix. You know, just for the record.

Also, my wedding is mentioned, but there is no mention of Mike. Oops! So if you’re here from the article – Mike has a blog too, and it is at CoffeeCorner.org. Matter of fact, he organized the H-Tow Blog coffee hour that we first met in person at. And yes, there really were big pink cookies at our wedding instead of a groom’s cake (page 5 of the online article, near the end). Plus coffee. In the corner.

Matt left Houston yesterday, and there will be a hole in our blogging community from his departure. I know he will be missed. We will see him during the holidays though, and I’m sure he will make it down to Texas other times too. *sigh*

It’s an interesting article. I’ll be picking up a hard copy of the paper tomorrow. Let me know if you want a copy too!

Here I was, sniffling and whimpering about no comments. (I know, it shouldn’t be important – but it is.) Turns out that WP has decided to moderate all of my comments, not just the ones that need to be moderated. I’m looking things over to see what could be wrong, and I e-mailed the expert for suggestions.

Now I’ll stop whining about comments. I guess my blog was just trying to prove a point, huh? Yeah, I don’t need comments to live. I shouldn’t have been so blah about that earlier. Sorry about that.

Quirky? Yeah, that’s me. Very quirky. Or neurotic, depending on how you want to look at it. It is all about perspective, right?

I went to fill my car up with gas today, and I was faced with one of my quirks. I can’t stop pumping at an odd dollar amount. I can only stop at a whole dollar amount, or a quarter amount … so $23.00, $23.25 and $23.50 are ok. $23.12 is simply not acceptable.

I’m not the only one that does this, am I?

More new photos at Pixelog! I need to post another one tonight; I’ll be glad when the “Huge Ass Beers” thumbnail finally moves off this site.

Today’s photo was nothing more than a quick snapshot in the rain, but I’m very pleased with how it came out. I didn’t edit it at all – for the most part, that is the way it came out of the camera. The only tweaks I made were to resize it and run the Lomo Effect action against it.

It is always nice when you have photographic accidents like that.