Miscellany of a Cheshire Cat

A good, leisurely weekend. Though it seems we did a lot: failing to find patio furniture, grilling, a good time at the gym, succeeding at finding the perfect patio furniture with a bonus of finding the perfect coffee table and tv stand after 5+ years of searching (we didn’t even measure – they were just completely perfect and we were clever enough to recognize that and take them home), Easter bunny deliveries, tasty breakfast food, a bad movie, and general fun and relaxation.

Oh and the Red Sox beat the Yankees in their home opener Sunday evening. It was a great game – a microcosm of the ups and downs of a whole season distilled into one game! (A typical game or season for me usually goes like this… “Oh! They’re behind already!” “Crap, they screwed up!” “They’re still in the running!” “But their pitching staff has left the building…” “Oh! Look! Tie game!” “Oh! Oh!” “We’re winning!!!” “One more inning…” “One more out…” “HURRAY!!!!!” Being a Red Sox fan is all about faith under fire.)

Today was productive even if it didn’t seem it. I hit the gym for a good session first thing. I did some testing for work a good chunk of the day and then did some re-testing. After a small panic, we determined the bug I was seeing was not related to what we were testing (an integration process) but a browser/platform issue. Hurray! I didn’t achieve all my errands, but I did get some of them done.

Creative plans (and more testing for work) for the rest of the week. Oh and taxes… whee… The paperwork is prepped. I procrastinated a lot this year.

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The Red Sox won the World Series for the second time in my lifetime! Hurray!

The World Series was, once again, anticlimactic. The real nail-biting games were in the ALCS against Cleavland. But last night’s game was pretty good. Both teams were playing very well and I wouldn’t have been surprised if the score had remained 1-0. I suspect the 8 days off before the World Series caused the Rockies to lose all their momentum. They are an awesome team and should have been able to put up a better fight against the Red Sox. However, it’s also noteworthy that the last time the Red Sox swept the series it was with an 8-game winning streak, so they may have simply been unstoppable by any means in this series.

The bad news? No more baseball until Spring.

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Yesterday the sun came out mid-afternoon with that glorious brightness that you only see after days upon days of rain. (Of course, a lot of that brightness and glory has to do with the days of gloom and our eyes not being able to adjust to a sudden burst of sun, but that’s beside the point.) It was nice to have the rain be over, especially since it had started to seep into our basement, but the accompanying weather change was probably responsible for the headache I had most of yesterday afternoon and evening.

I have been watching the World Series. I’m happy the Red Sox are winning but now terrified that they will start to falter as the are so good at doing. As the announcers pointed out at the end of last night’s game, only one team has come back from a 3-0 deficit in a post-season series and the Rockies are facing that team. Of course, these are our Red Sox… they very well could blow a 3 game lead in the World Series, it’s in their idiom. But core to the Red Sox idiom appears to be luck, it would seem. When they hit a streak of luck they capitalize on it.

The Red Sox have some of the hottest bats in the game, some of the best pitchers (though, for some reason, never the strongest bullpen) and amazing team spirit. Not to mention the fans. And yet, they are a painfully inconsistent team and we fans love them for it. Of course, I look at a 3 game lead in the World Series I am once again finding the final series rather dull compared to the Championship Series. I, for one, was hoping for more action against the powerhouse team the Colorado Rockies were purported to be. Hopefully they will rally and provide us fans who love biting our fingernails with another game or more of great, torturous baseball.

If, by some stroke of luck and hot bats and good pitching and incredible fielding, the Red Sox do win tonight, the American League Championship series between the Boston Red Sox and Cleavland Indians will have been the only post-season series to go its full count of games (seven in this case). In fact it’s possible that series will be the only post-season series to have gone beyond 4 games. This strikes me as odd. I guess I imagine that once you get to the post-season, teams will be more challenged by teach other and the match-ups will result in games that keep us fans on the edges of our seats.

(Okay, even with a 6-0 lead in last night’s game, I was rightfully on the edge of seat because I know that the Red Sox can indeed blow a 6 run lead… and they almost did.)

So tonight, I’m hoping for an awesome baseball game, regardless of who wins.

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