Archives April 2008

Last night we went out to a local sports bar to meet up with a gym buddy and his girlfriend.  It was nice to go out and be “social” something we don’t do much.  It was too bad we had to do it on a Tuesday night.  My buddy is a bartender and he has Monday’s and Tuesday’s off so that is pretty much the only days he can do anything.  We had fun but I am paying for it this morning.  My head didn’t hit the pillow until 12:30.

We got news on the cat yesterday which is good or bad depending on your point of view.  The blood work came back and it checked out clean, no diabetes, no other apparent life threatening conditions.  However we are still leaving her there for a day or two so the vet staff can force pills down her throat.  I guess we will have to pick her up sometime.

I never look at my old town paper but for some reason I just happened to take a peek today.  It was quite ironic what I saw was a headline about Jay Baller getting busted for cocaine.  I know Jay Baller. In high school I was very serious about baseball.  Off season I used to go to a local athletic club at 6 in the morning and meet up with my coach along with a few other players.  There was just barely the 60 feet needed to do indoor pitching drills.  Well somehow Jay Baller got involved in the program.

  Jay was a successful minor league pitcher and I think at that time he was just starting to break into the majors.  He was a big dude at 6′ 7″.  I felt small at 6’3″ and 155-160 pounds soaking wet next to him.  Anyway he would do some throwing of his own along with helping us with our technique.  He always was laughing and joking.  In fact one time he played a practical joke on me by grabbing the keys to my 69 Buick Special Deluxe and parking it around the corner so I would think it was stolen. ( I did)

Years later I had another connection with him, sort of when I was working as a computer tech at Entre computers.  We hired an attractive woman as a tech.  When she told me her name was Terri Baller and her husband was a baseball player I instantly put two and two together.  What a small world.  Terri didn’t work for Entre all that long but her and I got along well.  I remember at Christmas time she bought me a pair of socks that had HO-HO-HO all over them because I told her previously I had no holiday clothing. She was really nice. 

Jay’s major league career was nothing to write home about but at least he made it to the show, something I always aspired to but never approached.  He may be most famous for his ample chest hair on his baseball cards photo.

Well evidently nowadays Jay is a coke head.  I wonder if he is still married to that cute wife of his.  I sort of doubt it.  You would think a man that drives around with 15k in cash, cocaine and a loaded hand gun might not make for the most stable spouse.  Oh well, hope things get better for ya Jay.  Don’t snort your life away. Wow this guy is only 6 years older than me….

Ice blue sunset.  This is extremely cool.  Just imagine being there.

I have been watching this season’s Celebrity Fit Club, the show for fat ass celebrities to lose weight.  One of the “celebrities” this season is Erin Moran, who played Joanie in Happy Days and the subsequent failure “Joanie Loves Cha Chi”.  I haven’t seen here since the early 80’s.  To put it mildly, time has not been kind to Erin.  You know how some women have a “soft” face that is pleasing to look at?  Erin is as far away from that as possible.  Her face is as hard as cold concrete.  She almost has a Medusa like affect on me.   

As you can see on the left, when she was younger she didn’t look bad.  During her Happy Days days, she was a borderline  sex symbol.  However on CFC she looks like a used up crack whore. This gives you a taste of how she looks nowadays but you need to watch the show to see the full Medusa effect.  I seriously yell out and turn away at times.

Take a look at her “official” website and the picture posted there…..  time to update the content Erin, sheesh.

Last night Ali and I busted out more line posts and got the entire back property line done.  I only have 17 more posts to put in the ground which I should be able to get done after work during the week.  That should set us up to have the area totally enclosed over the weekend.  I am psyched to wrap this monster project up.

I have had a couple weird dreams recently.  In one of the them I was running around naked in public and was just fine with it.  I was around a beach somewhere as I walked by dozens of people with all my junk hanging out.  It was very strange.

The other dream was strange as well.  I was warming up throwing a baseball around with a teammate of mine.  He was a pitcher so I eventually squatted down into catcher position to continue warming him up.  However once I was down there I couldn’t catch anything that was to my right and low.  Every time a pitch came in that area I was too slow to react and it would shoot by me.  I remember the players behind being pissed by the projectiles flying by me, barely missing them.  Time and again I would try to catch the ball and was just unable to do so.  I remember being  extremely frustrated.  I just could not catch the damn ball. Oh the other weird thing, in the dream I had the glove on my left hand which adds to the confusion.  I am a left hander so the glove is normally on my right.

Hey it’s April Fools but I don’t have any good pranks to play on you, sorry.