Orioles Mania is at a fever pitch these days. If you can't get enough, stop in to camdenchat.com for your fix.
Here's a pic of me and O on the T platform on our way to Fenway last Saturday. Guess what? (What?) The ORIOLES WON!
9/30/12
Update
Looks like I'm closing in on a closing on the Kater Street house. The inspection produced a 28 page PDF. Guess what? (what?) There are termites and termite tunnels. I know ... shocking. I have a question for all the termite inspectors out there. Let's say I'm thinking of getting termites treated every 20 years or every 5 years. I'll pay you either $1000 every 20 or $1200 every 5. Will you come inspect my house and give me your honest opinion on whether I should go with the 20 or 5 year plan?
Orioles Mania is at a fever pitch these days. If you can't get enough, stop in to camdenchat.com for your fix.
Here's a pic of me and O on the T platform on our way to Fenway last Saturday. Guess what? (What?) The ORIOLES WON!
Orioles Mania is at a fever pitch these days. If you can't get enough, stop in to camdenchat.com for your fix.
Here's a pic of me and O on the T platform on our way to Fenway last Saturday. Guess what? (What?) The ORIOLES WON!
8/14/12
Orioles fall to 0-2 when I'm in attendance
My trips to (and from) Oriole Park at Camden Yards have been epic this season....
On Mother's Day, I took advantage of a layover in BWI and trained it over to Baltimore. After arranging to meet Don at the Yard, we watched the O's dig a hole early and then claw their way almost all the way back for a 7-6 loss to the Rays. Lost in the excitement was the fact that the last Amtrak from B-more to New Haven had been sold out for hours. So, Don dropped me off at the Greyhound station. Six connections and 5 modes of transportation later, I got home at 2 a.m.
This past Saturday, I talked Julie into the drive down to Baltimore for the Eddie Murray statue unveiling in Camden Yards' Garden of Champions, followed by a 7:05 Orioles-Royals game. Things were going well: we made it to town early, munched on some crabs at Faidleys, checked into our kinda-nice hotel, walked around a bit. About 15 mins before game time, the skies opened up and the unadvertised rain didn't let up for 3 hours. And they didn't call the game! Kudos to Julie for bringing our Newport Folk Festival ponchos, but even she had to throw in the towel at 10 p.m. I walked her back to the hotel and once I heard that they were restarting the game, ran back over. No way I was gonna let these seats go to waste (5 rows behind O's dugout). Well...the O's dug another early hole for themselves, but this time the attempted climb-out was even weaker: 7-3. Got back to the hotel at 115 a.m.
We've got 6+ weeks left in the regular season ... another Baltimore trip is probably out of the question but I think a trip to Fenway or ... gulp ... the new Yankee stadium might be in order.
On Mother's Day, I took advantage of a layover in BWI and trained it over to Baltimore. After arranging to meet Don at the Yard, we watched the O's dig a hole early and then claw their way almost all the way back for a 7-6 loss to the Rays. Lost in the excitement was the fact that the last Amtrak from B-more to New Haven had been sold out for hours. So, Don dropped me off at the Greyhound station. Six connections and 5 modes of transportation later, I got home at 2 a.m.
This past Saturday, I talked Julie into the drive down to Baltimore for the Eddie Murray statue unveiling in Camden Yards' Garden of Champions, followed by a 7:05 Orioles-Royals game. Things were going well: we made it to town early, munched on some crabs at Faidleys, checked into our kinda-nice hotel, walked around a bit. About 15 mins before game time, the skies opened up and the unadvertised rain didn't let up for 3 hours. And they didn't call the game! Kudos to Julie for bringing our Newport Folk Festival ponchos, but even she had to throw in the towel at 10 p.m. I walked her back to the hotel and once I heard that they were restarting the game, ran back over. No way I was gonna let these seats go to waste (5 rows behind O's dugout). Well...the O's dug another early hole for themselves, but this time the attempted climb-out was even weaker: 7-3. Got back to the hotel at 115 a.m.
We've got 6+ weeks left in the regular season ... another Baltimore trip is probably out of the question but I think a trip to Fenway or ... gulp ... the new Yankee stadium might be in order.
8/2/12
I mean, I don't love spiders either but come on
Spider Belief Questionnaire (SBQ) measures "the strength of belief in various (irrational or unrealistic) ideas about both spiders and the self during confrontation with a spider....Examples of spider-related beliefs are 'the spider will attack me' and 'the spider smells that I'm anxious.' Examples of self-related beliefs are 'I will lose control' and 'I will become crazy'....The subject is instructed to indicate the strength of each belief as experienced during confrontation with a spider by filling in a percentage (0% to 100%). We obtained two scores: (a) the mean strength of the spider-related beliefs (0-100;...) and (b) the mean strength of the self-related beliefs (0-100;...)"
7/30/12
NFF 2012!
Another phenomenal weekend at the Newport Folk Festival...
Best number in my book was My Morning Jacket calling Brittany Howard, lead signer of Alabama Shakes on the main stage with them to cover The Band's 'It Makes No Difference' as the clouds gathered and lightning crashed all around.
Seconds after MMJ finished their finale -- I'm Amazed -- the skies opened up and the show was shut down for the night. Problem was we had to wait 90 minutes in the downpour for our turn on the water taxi back to downtown Newport.
Special thanks to Momo for making it all the way from Peru to DC to New Haven to join us in the caravan to Rhode Island.
Best number in my book was My Morning Jacket calling Brittany Howard, lead signer of Alabama Shakes on the main stage with them to cover The Band's 'It Makes No Difference' as the clouds gathered and lightning crashed all around.
Seconds after MMJ finished their finale -- I'm Amazed -- the skies opened up and the show was shut down for the night. Problem was we had to wait 90 minutes in the downpour for our turn on the water taxi back to downtown Newport.
Special thanks to Momo for making it all the way from Peru to DC to New Haven to join us in the caravan to Rhode Island.
7/13/12
Whale watching
Having read many (OK... 3) a sea-faring tale of fright and having spent the entire 4 hours of a deep-sea fishing excursion curled in the fetal position with sea-sickness, I was scared to go whale-watching.
Every time I closed my eyes, I pictured this:
Reality was much more pleasant. Gorgeous blue sky, calm waters and Humpback and Minke whales everywhere we turned.
I saw one of the Humpbacks breaching but it was too far away to get a good pic. Mostly, they surfaced and dove right back down, giving the best view of their flukes:
Every time I closed my eyes, I pictured this:
Reality was much more pleasant. Gorgeous blue sky, calm waters and Humpback and Minke whales everywhere we turned.
I saw one of the Humpbacks breaching but it was too far away to get a good pic. Mostly, they surfaced and dove right back down, giving the best view of their flukes:
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