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Wednesday, July 31, 2002
Hamstring update... according to SportsInjuryClinic.net, I have a Grade 1 hamstring injury. I should:
So frustrating.
Yeah yeah yeah, the Sox acquired Cliff Floyd last night! Dat boy's good.
In other sports news, Lisa Leslie had the first dunk in WNBA history last night. But I'm sure everyone knew that already, because you were all probably watching the big Sparks-Sol game. Oy. In other sports news, my %$&@&^$ hamstring will not heal. I pulled it about a month ago, and I've been stretching it a lot, but each time I try to return to the frisbee pitch it starts hurting again. My main question is, what is my best course of action if my main goal is to be healthy in time for the big tournament August 17-18? Do I jog a lot? (Please say no.) Do I just sit on the couch and play video games while icing it? (Please say yes.) Does someone come over and give me a deep tissue massage every night? If stretching till it hurts is good, then why is running till it hurts bad? Time to do some research. I hear there's lots of information on the "internet". Tuesday, July 30, 2002
Here's a great game to try out: Insaniquarium. A good workout for your mouse AND your mind. Feed the fish, help them grow, feed them to bigger fish, zap the aliens. So it's just like a real fish tank. It's the kind of game that you can just keep playing and playing... but fortunately it saves the game for you at every level, so you can stop whenever you want and resume later. The hard part is stopping.
Wednesday, July 24, 2002
The Onion brings you What's on TV Tonight. My favorites are "Crucifixing up Your Home" and "Bible Bots" on TBN, and "To Be Annizounced" and "Black Weather Report" on BET.
Cool, on August 18 an asteroid will pass close enough to Earth to be seen through a telescope or binoculars. Wait a minute, why would I stay up to see that? Even if I had binoculars or a telescope, it's not like this will be anything like the meteor shower from last October. Now that was cool.
Tuesday, July 23, 2002
I wish I were sitting in front of a TV. After four innings of the Sox game vs Tampa Bay, it's 16-4 Boston. Nomar has hit three home runs and has 8 RBI. And, this only the first game of a doubleheader. Could we break some records today? Nomar's on pace for at least 13 homers and 36 RBI today. (It's cool, I was a math major. Don't try this at home.) And it's his birthday. Isn't that special.
Thursday, July 18, 2002
Here's a fun game: Noah's Ark. Freefall mode is fun. It's one of those games that starts out really easy but then gets really hard. The first screen I didn't rescue all the animals was level 8, but then they still let you advance levels. And subsequent levels are the kind where there is only one possible sequence of clicks that will clear the level. Pretty tricky.
 Adrienne got her pictures from the camping trip. And there finally exists a (good) picture of me and her! (That is correct grammar, by the way.) And then there's me on a motorcycle. Vroom vroom vroom! I'm Harley Davidson! Wednesday, July 17, 2002
Fun game! Breeder. Help the cute little bunnies raise a family. It's like Watership Down, only with more nookie.
Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Brain teaser time! What do these three words have in common, besides that they are capitalized?
WERE, SHED, ILL And can you think of at least six other words that belong in the same category?
I was reading Menlow's site just now, and he has the "Capital I" song from Sesame Street stuck in his head. And I thought to myself, yeah that really is a great song. Then I thought of another song I really liked, about the letter "O". Then I did a Google search for the only lyric I could remember: "Closer to the bulldozer". Then I found a page that listed a bunch of Sesame Street songs (turn your sound off if you go there.) Those songs brought back some memories, but there was one song about the letter "K" that I don't remember. And it probably would not have stood out to me as a youngster, but as I skimmed it over some of the lyrics caught my eye: "You're OK with me, oh K K K..." Now maybe you have to hear the song... maybe those Ks are sung several minutes apart... but in any case it just doesn't seem right.
Monday, July 15, 2002
Saturday night I went to the best birthday party I've ever been to. A guy on my frisbee team is turning 40, and his wife threw him a surprise party with over a hundred of his closest friends. At the Fleet Center. For the first couple hours, we got to play pickup basketball on the same court as the Celtics. And that was pretty fun. All the while on the side of the court there was a huge spread of hors d'oeuvres and an open bar. Jo-Jo White (some old Celtic) was in the house signing autographs. After basketball we hit the showers (not the Celtics showers, unfortunately), and changed into nice clothes. Then we headed to the Club area of the Fleet Center for dinner and dancing, and more open bar. It was quite a memorable evening. I should have pictures eventually.
I'd like to take this time to announce my retirement from basketball, with a Fleet Center shooting percentage of over .500. Friday, July 12, 2002
If anyone in the Boston area has some time to kill this weekend, I strongly encourage you to head to the Esplanade and check out some of the World Freestyle Frisbee Championships. I'm probably gonna go midday Sunday. Check out some of those video clips, yo! Sure, sometimes those guys look... well, goofy. But some of those tricks are pretty amazing, or "hein" as they say in the freestyle world. I just learned that term.
Thursday, July 11, 2002
Pearls Before Swine. It's a good-looking strategy game that IS winnable. However, I must admit that the only way I won it was by using his own strategy against him, after I played Pearls Before Swine 2. Haven't beaten that one yet.
Massachusetts welcomes Krispy Kreme! That location is only a couple miles from my apartment; I just wish it were on my way to work. Them're some good donuts. But how is the coffee?
Wednesday, July 10, 2002
  Camping update time. It was really fun. Rather than write a lengthy and detailed account of the weekend, which I really don't like doing, I'll just show you some pictures and tell you what's going on in them. That helps jog my memory too, get the descriptive juices flowing. left: This picture was from before the weekend, when my frisbee team ("Spam") held a tournament. I only played a few points, because I was (and still am) nursing a strained hamstring. That's sister Katie on the right, and cousin Lena on the left. Now for the camping pictures. right: Immediately after we set up our tent, there was a torrential downpour for about half an hour. While that's goin on, here's me and Bob discussing possibilities for temporary tattos while Julie makes fun of us and Adrienne selects some inkage of her own. Bob and I each decided on bicep bands, and I went with black suns over each of my nipples.  left: We threw the ol' disc around quite a bit. Here's Jeff (right) and Stu (center) messing around. In the background is me in a shirt I picked up at the Garment District, which we dubbed the "Kwanzaa Shirt". I should probably mention that like last year, one of the goals of WTC ("White Trash Camping") is to make other people laugh at the clothes you wear. Originally the concept was WT clothes like mustard-stained "wife-beaters" and NASCAR shirts, but this year we found some real gems at the G-District which we could not pass up. More on that later. right: We invented a fun game that involved throwing the frisbee through inner tubes. Here's Bill, Schaff and Bob of Team Chunky Gerbil Stool (long story) in their ever-fruitless efforts to defeat Team Junk. Not even their McLaughlin Plumbing uniforms fresh from the G-District could help them.  left: Breakfast by the river. From left: Jeff, Schaff, Stan, me. right: Adrienne floating down the river. This was a pretty fun activity; we drove up-river a couple miles and cruised down. Very relaxing.  left: Bob and Ricky "cliff" jumping across from our campsite. Kids these days... right: Guess I've got some explaining to do. Like I said, the idea of WTC is to make people laugh AT ALL COSTS! This little number was a steal at the G-District, and I couldn't pass it up. I unveiled it one night around the campfire, and as soon as someone noticed it I got up, did a little dance, spun around, and sang the circus song. It was worth it.Tuesday, July 09, 2002
If you're a New Englander, you probably noticed the odd yellowish hue of the sky at the beginning of this week. I know I did. At the end of our camping trip it felt like I had yellow shades on, and you could look directly at the sun without squinting. It turns out that there were huge forest fires in Canada that blew smoke all the way over New England. I wasn't going to comment about it because I didn't want to go to ALLLLL that trouble of providing a link to a story, but Adrienne sent me this cool satellite photo of the smoke so I thought I'd share.
Camping pictures and stories are still in the works.
What's the deal with crop circles? That's one phenomenon that bewilders me most, because the pictures are right there. Why would someone bother to make designs that were that huge, as a hoax? And the dude says they were definitely done overnight??? Maybe I'll see that movie "Signs".... Mel Gibson will tell me what's really going on.
Monday, July 08, 2002
I'm back from my camping trip. It was loads of fun. I'll tell y'all about it when I have time (i.e. when I'm not at work, and have some pictures to accompany). Until then, play Battleships!
Wednesday, July 03, 2002
This Major League Baseball record comes at an interesting time, when there are rumors about how many athletes use steroids. Last night a record 62 home runs were hit in the majors. There were four grand slams and nine players homered twice. 12 dingers in the White Sox-Tigers game tied the single game record. Jim Thome has homered in six straight games.
Tuesday, July 02, 2002
I'm on vacation this week, which is nice. For some reason when I'm doing nothing at all, that's when I feel like blogging the least. So that's why I ain't been around. And it'll only get worse for you my trusty readers, since Thursday I leave for four days on a camping trip. My frisbee team and I are going out to western Mass for some quality time together... should be fun. This is the same white trash camping trip that I blogged about last summer. Check out toward the end of this archive for pictures and stories and whatnot.
Wow, word games, song of the day, lots of purty pictures, more than one post per day... is it just me, or was LenLowLand more fun back then? I'd ask for input, but I don't think they would cause me to change my ways. Hey look, now I'm crotchety too! Heh, I said crotch. |
