I had the privelage of attending yesterday's baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Milwaukee Brewers. By the way, it was the home opener for the Cardinals in their brand new stadium. It was quite a day. There were probably over 100,000 people in the downtown area, with just under 42,000 in attendance at the game. Anyway, the new place in incredible, and I can't wait to go to more games. Now I will give you my case for electing Albert Pujols as President of the United States. Whenever there is a problem, Albert can mash a 450 ft. home run and when everyone says "Wow, that guy is the best player in baseball", they will realize that quarrelling over things like Social Security and health care are silly. They will come to an agreeance over all pressing issues and the country will be wonderful. The reason I say that is because in the game yesterday, Pujols blasted a home run that almost left the stadium. The only downside to the game was another disappointing game by the bullpen, especially Izzy. He gives up a meatball grand slam on Sunday giving the Cubs a win, and he almost blew the home opener. I don't know if it's in his head or what, but he better get his act together or else we should look for a new closer. The final score of the game was 6-4 Cardinals.
On a serious note, my sister-in-law's husband, who is a Marine, is currently serving in Iraq. The vehicle he was riding in was hit by 3 I.E.D.'s. For those of you who don't know what an I.E.D. is, it stands for Improvised Explosive Device. The insurgents use them to attack convoys and vehicles. Anyway, despite being hit by 3 of them, no one in the vehicle was seriously hurt. The driver hit his head, and that is the worst of it. I think the soldiers in that vehicle had some help from God on that one. So please, put him in your prayers along with all of the other soldiers serving in our Military.
That is not exactly a very good segway for this, but what can I do. I finally saw the movie "Team America - World Police". This movie was made by the creators of South Park. It done completely with puppets. Let me just say, it was an absolutely hilarious movie. I won't go into specifics, but I highly recommend this movie if you like South Park.
This whole link thing is getting difficult, but as I promised, here ya go.
A reminder from last year of the awesomeness that is Albert Pujols.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Friday, April 07, 2006
Birthdays, Baseball, and Buying Stuff
It's been a while since my last post, so let me get started...
First of all, April 5th is my wife's birthday. So happy belated birthday to you wife. The Saturday before her birthday, she threw a baby shower for her sister. Her sister came in town from California, and her mother and grandmother came in town from Memphis. I had an idea, I was going to throw her a surprise birthday party! By the way this was her 25th birthday. So I rented a few lanes at a bowling alley, got a cake, a present, and figured out what we would do after bowling. Fast forward to Saturday, the shower is over, I have a plan to trick her to the bowling alley. We decide to go to dinner, and from dinner I would get us to go to the bowling alley. Side note: my wife is difficult to surprise, she was very stubborn for some reason this day. Between that and the fact the restaurant was slow, we didn't leave until almost 9 p.m. when we should have been there by 8 p.m.. Finally we get there and I convince her that we should all go in. We walk in, she sees a couple of our friends and thinks, "cool, so-and-so is here". Then we walked down the stairs and BAM, family, friends, and bowling. Good times for all. I had planned on going to Bailey's Chocolate Bar afterwards, but it was too crowded, so some of us went to a friends house and that was that. Some other details, I got the cake from Coldstone Creamery (cookie dough delirium), I got her a personalized engraved keychain with an angel and a heart, and everyone had a good time. Man, it's a lot of work planning a surprise party, whew!
I had the opportunity to see the exhibition game between Memphis and Springfield at the new Busch Stadium. Wow, what a beautiful ball park. Opening day is Monday the 10th, and I am now more pumped than ever. Besides the long consession lines, everything was perfect. I will post pictures later.
I would like everyone to know that this is the inagural post from my brand new laptop! Woo hoo! It's an HP Pavilion zv6130us. Athlon 64 processor, 512 MB ram, 128 MB dedicated video card, it smokes. I can't tell you how excited I am to have this. I could spend all night on this thing getting it up to speed how I like it. But it's Friday, so I probably won't. (Crap, Derek Lee just hit a home run for the Cubs. NOOOOOOO!)
Well, gotta get back to work.
Daily Show goodness
First of all, April 5th is my wife's birthday. So happy belated birthday to you wife. The Saturday before her birthday, she threw a baby shower for her sister. Her sister came in town from California, and her mother and grandmother came in town from Memphis. I had an idea, I was going to throw her a surprise birthday party! By the way this was her 25th birthday. So I rented a few lanes at a bowling alley, got a cake, a present, and figured out what we would do after bowling. Fast forward to Saturday, the shower is over, I have a plan to trick her to the bowling alley. We decide to go to dinner, and from dinner I would get us to go to the bowling alley. Side note: my wife is difficult to surprise, she was very stubborn for some reason this day. Between that and the fact the restaurant was slow, we didn't leave until almost 9 p.m. when we should have been there by 8 p.m.. Finally we get there and I convince her that we should all go in. We walk in, she sees a couple of our friends and thinks, "cool, so-and-so is here". Then we walked down the stairs and BAM, family, friends, and bowling. Good times for all. I had planned on going to Bailey's Chocolate Bar afterwards, but it was too crowded, so some of us went to a friends house and that was that. Some other details, I got the cake from Coldstone Creamery (cookie dough delirium), I got her a personalized engraved keychain with an angel and a heart, and everyone had a good time. Man, it's a lot of work planning a surprise party, whew!
I had the opportunity to see the exhibition game between Memphis and Springfield at the new Busch Stadium. Wow, what a beautiful ball park. Opening day is Monday the 10th, and I am now more pumped than ever. Besides the long consession lines, everything was perfect. I will post pictures later.
I would like everyone to know that this is the inagural post from my brand new laptop! Woo hoo! It's an HP Pavilion zv6130us. Athlon 64 processor, 512 MB ram, 128 MB dedicated video card, it smokes. I can't tell you how excited I am to have this. I could spend all night on this thing getting it up to speed how I like it. But it's Friday, so I probably won't. (Crap, Derek Lee just hit a home run for the Cubs. NOOOOOOO!)
Well, gotta get back to work.
Daily Show goodness
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