How to waste a day
Oct. 10th, 2005 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rscWell, I suppose the day was going to be wasted anyway, seeing as it was chilly and damp and likely to start raining again at any moment. And we had gotten up late on account of having having gotten home from Saturday's dance well after midnight. So why not start up a blaze in the fireplace and sit down to watch the Braves-Astros game at 1:00 PM, knowing there would be plenty of time afterwards to eat dinner and maybe get in some TV-catching-up or other, um, productive activities between the end of that game and the start of the Yankees-Angels game at 7:55?
Somehow the idea that the first game would run 18 innings didn't enter into our calculations.
It didn't rain, however, and I was able to tear myself away from the game long enough to harvest what I suspect is the last crop of blueberries -- they were a little bit wet, but manageable -- while John went back and forth from the kitchen (where he was making corn muffins to go with supper) and the living room. We did get through rather a lot of firewood. And we did have time to eat between games.
One might wonder why we're still in Gloucester, where temperatures are resolutely refusing to get out of the 50s and the threat or actuality of rain is due to continue for the next five days or so. But we're not quite ready to move back, and we have to be here when our new mattress is delivered (sometime later this week, we think), and there's still more work to be done outdoors... so I guess we're going to hold out a little longer.
Fortunately the Yankees-Angels game didn't go into extra innings. But the Yankees had the nerve to win and force a 5th game tonight, when we could otherwise be catching up on Desperate Housewives and other important matters.
Somehow the idea that the first game would run 18 innings didn't enter into our calculations.
It didn't rain, however, and I was able to tear myself away from the game long enough to harvest what I suspect is the last crop of blueberries -- they were a little bit wet, but manageable -- while John went back and forth from the kitchen (where he was making corn muffins to go with supper) and the living room. We did get through rather a lot of firewood. And we did have time to eat between games.
One might wonder why we're still in Gloucester, where temperatures are resolutely refusing to get out of the 50s and the threat or actuality of rain is due to continue for the next five days or so. But we're not quite ready to move back, and we have to be here when our new mattress is delivered (sometime later this week, we think), and there's still more work to be done outdoors... so I guess we're going to hold out a little longer.
Fortunately the Yankees-Angels game didn't go into extra innings. But the Yankees had the nerve to win and force a 5th game tonight, when we could otherwise be catching up on Desperate Housewives and other important matters.
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Date: 2005-10-10 10:15 pm (UTC)For reasons I'm sure you can understand, I'm finding it hard to summon up enthusiasm for the White Sox on their own, even while rationally recognizing that they, at some level, deserve to win.
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Date: 2005-10-10 10:18 pm (UTC)and it has been a heck of a long time for the white sox, too. why not bury some more old curses?
i am torn--i think the white sox match up better against the yankees, but i hate the yankees so i want them to lose in the first round. it's a dilemma.
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Date: 2005-10-11 03:18 pm (UTC)That's the real reason for rooting for the White Sox, although "let them not have beaten my team in vain" could apply as well (although it never applies to the Yankees).
In the past, I've tended to root against the team that beat my team -- kind of a revenge reflex. I remember when our household used the term "Evil Empire" to refer to Oakland, and then Toronto (long before Larry Lucchino applied it to the Yankees).