Batter Up!
Another Saturday here at the computer. It's actually pretty nice out today. Not sure of the temp but it is above freezing so compared to the -20 to -35 degree temps we've had the last couple of weeks, it feels quite nice. Though no playing in the melting snow for me...
Yesterday I stayed at work for only about an hour. Thursday night I wasn't feeling so hot so I went to bed a little early, and Friday when I woke up I felt horrible. Had a bit of a fever going, muscle aches, chills, you name it. It is usually this time of year that my respitory system fills up with lung butter (aka phlegm) and I end up hacking all the way until spring. However, I don't have much of a cough and none of the usual symptoms. Back home in Chicopee, living right next to the MassPike, things got kinda dusty so I'm sure that didn't help. My place here is a little better on that front, not much, but a little. So last week, just in case, I purchased some Buckley's Cough Medicine. I got to try it the other night. This stuff smells like hair coloring, and the taste.. well it's sorta like if you swallowed some Vicks Vapo-Rub and drank a glass of salt water to wash it down. But it works damned good.
Today I'm feeling quite a bit better. Not 100% but I've been able to run some errands and get some stuff done around the apartment. One of my finer accomplishments of the day can be seen in the photo I posted below. Back in September when I was still mulling over the possibility of moving up here, I was traveling back and forth regularly as I still had people up here reporting to me. On one of those trips I decided that I was going to have to see the Expos play at least once since at the time, there was a 99.99999% chance they were moving after the season. So I went to a game on Sept 21 vs The Mets. For $40 Canadian, I got to sit directly behind home plate a couple of rows back from the field. The Mets have been my 2nd favorite team since I was a youngin', however, I tend to only watch them or pay attention when the Sox have a night off. At that game I ended up sitting next to a couple who were from Providence Rhode Island and were also in town on business. This was to be the Expos last home stand. In a stadium that could hold around 55,000 people, there were about 3,200 people. Pretty sad. Olympic Stadium from the outside looks pretty cool and futuristic. When I fly up here from Logan in Boston the flight path takes you just about over the stadium and it looks cool from up there too. However, inside it's nothing great at all. Very drab and dull. Fenway, despite its shortcomings seems to have an energy or life force of its own. Olympic Stadium kinda sucks your life force out of you. So I saw that game and 2 days later I decided to catch one more since I had nothing better to do. The second game was $5 night. Meaning you could get just about any seat in the house (except for the front sections closest to the infield for $5. I was gonna get a $5 seat but I didn't want to get stuck somewhere in the nosebleeds or something with no one to chat with. So I spent another $40 and Sat right behind the Mets dugout. Not bad. Oh yeah $5 night was also $1 night for hot dogs. Not up to the standards of a Fenway Frank but they were ok. Oh yeah, just remembered, the first game I was there, the old dudes that were working at the Molson tap hooked me up. Every time I went to get a beer there, they'd pour, tell me to drink some, then top it off again. They were good men! Very honorable.
Well from those 2 Expos games, I ended up with 1 program, 1 score card, 1 2004 Schedule and 2 Ticket Stubs. They've been in my laptop bag for like 4 months now and were starting to get beat up so I had to find something to do with them. I decided to go down to the local art store, get a frame, some black construction paper and frame the stuff. Doesn't look to shabby neither. though, the only frame I could find big enough anywhere works ok, but all that stuff is sandwiched between 2 pieces of glass (eek) and held in place by some real cheap backing wood. But, it does the job.
Finally... Today is the day tickets for the Sox 2005 season went on sale. They opened up a few early season games, for which I was able to buy some tickets already (only 2 and they are obstructed view) so maybe in a day or 2 I'll spring for some more. Charles and I saw a few games last year... So he's got first dibbs on the 2nd ticket for that first game I bought, but if anyone cares to go to a game or two this year, let me know!!!
Play Ball!
Yesterday I stayed at work for only about an hour. Thursday night I wasn't feeling so hot so I went to bed a little early, and Friday when I woke up I felt horrible. Had a bit of a fever going, muscle aches, chills, you name it. It is usually this time of year that my respitory system fills up with lung butter (aka phlegm) and I end up hacking all the way until spring. However, I don't have much of a cough and none of the usual symptoms. Back home in Chicopee, living right next to the MassPike, things got kinda dusty so I'm sure that didn't help. My place here is a little better on that front, not much, but a little. So last week, just in case, I purchased some Buckley's Cough Medicine. I got to try it the other night. This stuff smells like hair coloring, and the taste.. well it's sorta like if you swallowed some Vicks Vapo-Rub and drank a glass of salt water to wash it down. But it works damned good.
Today I'm feeling quite a bit better. Not 100% but I've been able to run some errands and get some stuff done around the apartment. One of my finer accomplishments of the day can be seen in the photo I posted below. Back in September when I was still mulling over the possibility of moving up here, I was traveling back and forth regularly as I still had people up here reporting to me. On one of those trips I decided that I was going to have to see the Expos play at least once since at the time, there was a 99.99999% chance they were moving after the season. So I went to a game on Sept 21 vs The Mets. For $40 Canadian, I got to sit directly behind home plate a couple of rows back from the field. The Mets have been my 2nd favorite team since I was a youngin', however, I tend to only watch them or pay attention when the Sox have a night off. At that game I ended up sitting next to a couple who were from Providence Rhode Island and were also in town on business. This was to be the Expos last home stand. In a stadium that could hold around 55,000 people, there were about 3,200 people. Pretty sad. Olympic Stadium from the outside looks pretty cool and futuristic. When I fly up here from Logan in Boston the flight path takes you just about over the stadium and it looks cool from up there too. However, inside it's nothing great at all. Very drab and dull. Fenway, despite its shortcomings seems to have an energy or life force of its own. Olympic Stadium kinda sucks your life force out of you. So I saw that game and 2 days later I decided to catch one more since I had nothing better to do. The second game was $5 night. Meaning you could get just about any seat in the house (except for the front sections closest to the infield for $5. I was gonna get a $5 seat but I didn't want to get stuck somewhere in the nosebleeds or something with no one to chat with. So I spent another $40 and Sat right behind the Mets dugout. Not bad. Oh yeah $5 night was also $1 night for hot dogs. Not up to the standards of a Fenway Frank but they were ok. Oh yeah, just remembered, the first game I was there, the old dudes that were working at the Molson tap hooked me up. Every time I went to get a beer there, they'd pour, tell me to drink some, then top it off again. They were good men! Very honorable.
Well from those 2 Expos games, I ended up with 1 program, 1 score card, 1 2004 Schedule and 2 Ticket Stubs. They've been in my laptop bag for like 4 months now and were starting to get beat up so I had to find something to do with them. I decided to go down to the local art store, get a frame, some black construction paper and frame the stuff. Doesn't look to shabby neither. though, the only frame I could find big enough anywhere works ok, but all that stuff is sandwiched between 2 pieces of glass (eek) and held in place by some real cheap backing wood. But, it does the job.
Finally... Today is the day tickets for the Sox 2005 season went on sale. They opened up a few early season games, for which I was able to buy some tickets already (only 2 and they are obstructed view) so maybe in a day or 2 I'll spring for some more. Charles and I saw a few games last year... So he's got first dibbs on the 2nd ticket for that first game I bought, but if anyone cares to go to a game or two this year, let me know!!!
Play Ball!
posted by Surviving In The Burbs at 1/29/2005 04:45:00 PM
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