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Yup, I was right

jeem — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:59:08 +0000

I was coming down with something when I wrote my last post. Left work early (14:30ish) on Thursday and didn’t make it in on Friday. It didn’t feel flu-ish, but colds never really come with high fever or chills or body aches. (The body aches could have been microtrauma from my workout Wednesday, though.)

I’m mostly over whatever-it-was now. Still a bit sniffly, still coughing up phlegm (btw i love that word), and still hoarse from the coughing, but no longer dealing with 103-degree temps.

I really, really, really hate being sick. Not only does illness rob me of my independence, but it also gets boring fast. I can only handle so many hours of laying on the couch swathed in blankets and fever-warmth-hungry felines before I develop cabin fever.

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No, I still cannot believe that the Cardinals won the World Series.

No, I still cannot believe that they did it in five games over the Detroit Tigers.

No, I still cannot believe that their hodgepodge of a pitching staff was so dominating.

I can, however, believe the following:

David Eckstein deserved to win Series MVP, not only for his home-field offense but also for his defensive contributions through all five games.
Adam Wainwright has found himself a place in the majors.
There were half a million people crammed downtown yesterday for the victory parade.
The Republican Governor of Missouri got heartily booed by the crowd inside the stadium (~50K) nine days before an important election

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And speaking of the Cardinals, Brian Gunn (of my favorite former Cards blog ‘Redbird Nation’) has a great piece up on The Hardball Times meant to put whining to rest.

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During my sick-time, I played a fair amount of Civ. I’m getting good at the hyperaggressively-expansionist pro-science-n-culture anti-war kill-other-civs-with-fabulosity schtick… time to ramp up the number of opponents and difficulty.

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I don’t think I’ll be at the chorus rehearsal tonight… no voice + recently sick = anathema to other singers.

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‘s all for now. More later.

Um, and again.

jeem — Sat, 21 May 2005 19:27:00 +0000

I did mention a major project, right? Well, unfortunately, it was major enough that I couldn’t really update all y’all. Sorry. It’s over now, mostly.

Since the last update… well, Ed got married, I got engaged to Fred, I keep moving up in the Wikipedia active-poster rankings, my workouts are becoming shorter but more intense, finished that project (thank God), learned that Fred is completely unwilling to learn how to keep score at a baseball game, we’ve started looking for a place together, I’ve started looking for another job, and we became addicted to Amazing Race (sooooooo glad that Uchenna and Joyce won…).

More this next week; in the meantime I have a man who requires specific attention, hint hint.

A looooooooooong-overdue update.

jeem — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:40:01 +0000

Good Lord. Two months without any posts, and you people are still here?

Sorry about that. I got kinda busy around late October, and lost my will to blog after that whole November 2 nastiness. But I’m here again, and will be posting again regularly as time permits (more on that to follow).

So. Cards phoned in the World Series. I turned 25 amid chicken shawarma and metropolitans, all of which was yummy. Stood in line for an hour and a half at the polling place (because they split the book A-K and L-Z and 2/3 of the precinct is L-Z; some reports from later in the day had the L-Z line at 4 hours long) so that STL could go 82% for Kerry. Wailed; gnashed teeth; explored jobs in Canada and New Zealand but decided ultimately to stick around and cause tremendous grief for the Republicans by living well despite their best efforts (neener!).

Worked. Worked. Worked. Took a teensy bit of vacation time scattered across November and December (a day here, a day there).

Brought a now-departed-for-Florida roommate to Thanksgiving with the fam. Had lovely brined ‘n’ smoked turkey and lots of other delish fare; had the fam share embarrassing stories about me simply because I brought a guest.

Went with roommate DD to his old haunts in Wisconsin, with a stop at IKEA in Chicago the day after T’giving en route. Went to a Packers game, too. Got a 15-foot Christmas tree and loaded it up for the drive back.

Um, worked more.

Met this boy through a particular well-known site known more for hook-ups (and attempts thereat) and drama than for stable relationships. Have dated him regularly since, and am really quite smitten with the lad. (More details on him in a future post, once I determine how much he wants revealed on here.)

Got clothes, iPod (from self, a 40-gigger), megahuge hard drive (400GB, which is now in a fresh-built-from-old-parts Samba server), and other interesting things for Christmas. Brought R* to the family Christmas dinner; had roast duck and other lovely delights. No stories, as R* had already heard many of them; instead R* and I spec’d out his new PC.

Went to a NYE party with the new boy, who really needs an acro- or pseudonym, at the house of one of his friends. Had our first — well, not really an argument per se, but definitely at least a disagreement — between dinner (Arcelia’s, yum!) and the party itself, but managed to pull ourselves together in time for the party. Brought a bottle of champagne like everybody else (at midnight, there were 15 people and 12 bottles of champagne). Ate, drank, made merry on an unseasonably warm night. Sang ‘Auld Lang Syne’ at midnight while accompanied by the host’s piano and PIPE ORGAN; it was definitely the most ostentatious rendition of that beloved song I’ve ever heard. Kissed aforementioned boy. Drank, drank, drank. Socialized with the FATTEST pugs I have ever met (one laid down and resembled a lozenge). Went home, made out with boy some, went to sleep.

Worked lots ever since. Have more plans with the boy this weekend.

I’m still in Soulard, still editing Wikipedia (and you can too!), still driving my beloved Mini, still bitching about my users to anybody who’ll hear me, still half-heartedly looking for a new job, still lifting weights, still tinkering with interesting foods, and still tinkering in general.

I’m going to follow this post with one containing R*’s Trini chicken curry recipe, which is quite good, and for which he has given me permission to post. Of course, I’m going to be posting my own slightly-modified version…

Audio post recorded just after Game 7 of the NLCS.

jeem — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:34:29 +0000

Redbird Nation

jeem — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:26:16 +0000

Have discovered a new blog to read: Redbird Nation. The article I’m linking to is my fave that they’ve posted so far, a detailed analysis of how Jim Edmonds is underrated that is pure gospel truth. Those of you who a) like baseball and b) have an RSS reader thingy might want to subscribe to their feed.

That piece was prompted in turn by an NYT bit about why the Cardinals have a better record than the Yankees. Alas, though, that piece is now in the pay-only archive, and the cheapskate in me doesn’t feel like paying. (I’ve read it once or twice, though, and it’s damned good. They go on at length about the modern baseball archetypes – broody Latin slugger, quiet Midwestern farmboy who’s a defensive genius, and swaggering hotshot Southern California outfielder – and how those archetypes are working so beautifully in STL.)