Yesterday Holly and I were chatting about our plans for the evening. At the time, there was nothing scheduled so I assumed we’d be working on one of our various projects. A few minutes later, my boss came into the office asking who wanted four tickets to the Ogden Raptors game. Since we didn’t have anything planned, I jumped at the chance to take the family to the ballpark.
We decided that since it was such sort notice that I would go home and get the family and then we would get dinner at the game. I’m normally not a big fan of hot dogs but I love eating one when I’m watching a baseball game in person. There is just something about ballpark dogs with mustard and relish that I love. Unfortunately Holly tainted mine with a few drops of ketchup but I was able to wipe it off with minimal damage to the rest of the hot dog. Holly and the Hannah had nachos, Alex and Emma had pretzels, and everyone shared some popcorn. It was basically Jenny Craig’s worst nightmare realized but it was ballpark food and we were at the ballpark so it was OK.
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Last week while I was playing a baseball game on my computer, the screen suddenly minimized and I was staring at my desktop. I was mildly annoyed and wondered what had just happened but didn’t dwell on it too much and resumed playing my game. After a few pitches, the same thing happened. This was not chance; something was messing with my computer and I didn’t like it. I put my game on hold and started researching the issue.
Obviously something was stealing the focus of the window that my game was in. This is why it kept minimizing to the desktop. I opened up Tweak UI to verify that I had enabled the option to prevent one window from stealing focus from another and saw that I had. This was getting more and more interesting.
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Yeah, I know that I should have posted this maybe on Saturday. Or on Sunday or Monday but I have been too busy dealing with other aspects of the site to write anything.
I wanted to let everybody know about our weekend. It was very eventful. On Friday night Emma had her eighth birthday party. While we were able to pull it off without any major problems, Pizza Hut did their best to ruin the night for Emma and her friends. I’m a good dad though so I was able to thwart their efforts.
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Ever since I was a kid, I have enjoyed watching snow fall. I always remember my mom and I watching people try to drive their cars up the hill that we lived on, only to fail and end up walking the rest of the way home. I learned my lesson early on and would usually park at the bottom of the hill and just walk the whole way. It was easier and safer.
Yesterday we had a snow storm while I was at work. It dropped somewhere around 4 inches at my office. Not only was it snowing, it was also very windy. At times, the snow was actually falling up. All of the blowing didn’t do much for accumulation but it made for quite a spectacle.
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I’ve said it before: if a professional athlete takes steroids, they’re a cheater. Based on the Hall of Fame voting results that were announced yesterday, it looks like the Baseball Writers Association feels the same way.
Yesterday, Rich “Goose” Gossage was elected into the Hall. He was the only one. Andre Dawson, Tim Raines, Jim Rice, and Mark McGwire were all names that should have been announced but none of them were. I can understand why McGwire was left out but the others should have all been voted in.
Mark McGwire is one of my favorite players ever. He used to be considered “good for baseball” too, but then people stopped caring about the fact that he nearly single-handedly saved the game in 1998 when he broke Roger Maris’ single-season home run record. He finished his career with a total of 583 home runs. That is a number that used to automatically get a player into the Hall of Fame, but since everybody that has broken a record or had a good season in the last 20 years is assumed to be guilty of using steroids, I have a feeling that McGwire will never make it into the Hall.
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I love October. Sure, I get to send my kids out into the cold dark night on a quest to find me Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups at the end of the month, but until then, I get to watch baseball. Not just any baseball either. I get to watch post-season baseball. I look forward to this every year. I will listen to games on the radio during the day then come home at night and watch them on television. Given the announcer, I almost prefer listening to games on the radio. There’s just something nostalgic about it.
All year I have been following the Mets, eagerly anticipating this week when they would start the playoffs and ultimately win the World Series. There were stretches during the season where the team would go on a losing streak but they were always comfortably in first place in their division. The team had flaws but I figured that there was no way that they wouldn’t make the playoffs.
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Barry Bonds only needs two more home runs to surpass Hank Aaron as baseball’s all-time home run leader. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this. On one hand, he’s quite possibly the greatest player of his generation on the verge of breaking the most hallowed record in all of sports. On the other, there’s a lot of evidence that this guy is a cheater.
It hurts me to say this, but Barry Bonds is an amazing baseball player; quite possibly the best ever. Yeah, I said the best ever. It hurts me because he’s a cheater. (More on that in a minute.) He’s also not a very likable guy. I can understand trying to stay out of the spotlight what with all of the scandal that’s surrounded him over the past few years, but there’s a right and a wrong way to do it. He does it the wrong way.
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