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Last night I once again proved my skill at starting fires, by getting the grill blazing hot and ready for use in roughly 5 minutes. It was so hot I could only take a few seconds at a time before retreating to the relative cool of the other corner of the balcony; I had to [...]

I’ve been offered semi-solicited advice to tone down the baseball play-by-play. Well, crud. I quite enjoyed writing that post. After the game Monday I went home, lit the fire, checked my e-mail, remembered that I was supposed to see Chicago with Jimmy and a friend of his (if you’ll recall, I had met Jimmy and [...]

So. home opener. Cardinals 11, Brewers 9. If I had my scorecard with me I could suggest specific highlights, but… Mike Shannon was the MC of the pregame ceremony. He was OK, but Jack Buck was just so much better. And speaking of Jack Buck, the city renamed Stadium Plaza “Jack Buck Way” yesterday. *sniff!* [...]

Been slacking again… sorry. Thursday night I heard from the cute neighbor. We had a nice little phone conversation, and there may be more in the future. (I’m not sure I want to divulge too much more on that front; generally, when I do that, I overflow on optimism.) Friday was a very blah day [...]