Dear Manny,
Have fun in Florida.
These past seven years have been special, but I think we all knew this day would come. It will be hard at first. We will miss you and your childish antics and the way you never quite grasped the concept of hustling. We will keep the championships and lose the attitude. Thanks for the rings.
When packing [...]
Archive for July, 2008
TRADE MANNY
Posted in sports, tagged douchebag moves, red sox, sports on July 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A lot can change in a day.
Overnight, you can go from having a place to live, a warm body to sleep next to, and someone to call when the milk is low or there is a spider desperately in need of killing on the ceiling.
Overnight, you are suddenly lost and calling your dad at 3 [...]
conversation with a boy
Posted in love, tagged dating, fishing, love on July 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I developed this post in response to questions posed by some male friends of mine. Namely, one. Our e-mails often resemble therapy sessions where he confesses his issues with the female population and I typically wind up shooting his theories about us down. And since I am not being paid for my musings, I figure [...]
almost heaven
Posted in all, tagged dunkins on July 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Walking home from work yesterday I could have cried. There it was. Three blocks off in the distance. A little piece of heaven in my new SF backyard!
A Dunkin Donuts on Columbus!
When did this happen?!? How did I not notice the construction crews before?!?
I immediately started rehearsing my order in my head: one small regular coffee [...]
best night
Posted in all, tagged my kids, volunteering on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There is something about playing a Spongebob Squarepants board game with two 8-year-old boys that can totally restore your faith in humanity.
Let me explain. Every Tuesday night I volunteer at a local homeless shelter for families. I am supposed to tutor kids ages 5 to 15. And sometimes I do.
Sometimes I teach them to read. Other nights I try to explain that writing a ’little p’ [...]
the end
Posted in sports, tagged yankee stadium on July 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I realized this morning that I have to book a flight to New York. And soon. Because in a matter of months Yankee Stadium will be gone and I fear one day having to tell my future children that I never sat through a game at the old ballpark.
Yankee Stadium is one of the most [...]
SMART?
Posted in all, tagged prius, smart cars, technology fail on July 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
By now we’ve all seen them. Those itty bitty cars parked in impossibly small spaces that some laud are the next step towards saving the planet. Now what I am about to say will likely incite anger and repulsion. If any environmentalists actually read my blog I would surely be inundated with hate mail. Luckily, [...]
flipping out
Posted in my people, tagged dad on July 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Some of the most memorable times of my life involve my dad going berserk. (His word, not mine.) His freak outs typically revolve around one of two themes: problems with a certain boy or the computer. See where I get it?!?
The episodes are rare, which make them especially hard to predict. But one sure sign that someone’s life is in grave danger is the [...]
armageddon
Posted in all, tagged armageddon, emergency preparedness, survival skills on July 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have decided that I need to learn some serious survival skills should Armageddon strike at some point during my lifetime. Sure, the scenario is unlikely. But right now almost the entire state of California is burning and disaster preparedness is something I think about maybe 0 times a day.
Anyhow, the topic of Armageddon arose [...]
