This is the time you learn what sort of person you are. Someone sends you an email to do some weekend work for a good cause. So I type "Sure!" even with that exclamation mark as I am far more like a 12 year old committee girl that I like to admit. Then it comes:
Meet out back. Bring a shovel.The bad news. Suddenly, I have aches, a bit of a cold coming on and, checking the weather, isn't that an arctic cold front coming?
I wake. I lay there and I lie. In my head I make up lies to try on myself inside my brain to see if there are any that will move up the rankings of miserable grumblings to actually risk being uttered. Nope. Nothing. I pull out the woolie socks and consider my options for quiting earlier than I promised.
Update: Did I say zero degrees? How is it that I am certain the Flea does not have this problem this morning?
Update: The Yankees lost on the west coast. Suddenly I am warmed. And the Sox's #4 this year Clements had a good outing against lowly Baltimore. Toasty inside. All toasty inside.
Comments
Gordo - April 8, 2006 12:01 pm
Feel sorry for my wife, Alan. She returns from Borneo on Monday afternoon. It's 11:00OPM there as I type this and it's 25C with 94% humidity.
OK, don't feel sorry for her. Take comfort in what will be her agony. :-)
Alan - April 8, 2006 12:36 pm
Oh, it was only an hour and a half of wheel barrowing - even if cracking the sheel of a top soil pile with a two-inch frost was disconcerting. I will have to treat myself well for the rest of the weekend.
Arthur - April 8, 2006 3:07 pm
She returns from Borneo on Monday afternoon.
She wasn't on Survivor, was she? ;-)
Flea - April 8, 2006 4:51 pm
Quite right. I am almost nothing like a 12 year old committee girl and consequently avoid these sorts of entanglements.
Mike M - April 8, 2006 6:23 pm
I was scheduled to be the "datacaster" at the Ottawa Lynx doubleheader (rained out last night) this afternoon but the games were postponed because they weren't able to get the infield tarp up due to a layer of ice on top.
Only in Canada (or maybe New England).
Shelley - April 8, 2006 6:51 pm
We Canadians are a hardy bunch. It was only a but above freezing when our first fundraiser car wash got underway this morning. If you ever doubted the committment of today's youth, you will be impressed to know that 14 teenagers showed up to wash cars today - while wearing toques.
It warmed up a bit as the day progressed, but it was still darn cold!
portland - April 8, 2006 7:25 pm
don't accept free ticks to the lynx in april. i learned that the hard way. took a few tries even.
pally, i got strep cause i spend the entire day at my kid's school yesterday (9-9, the old PTA social)doing good deeds. thanks you frigging little germ bags.
and clement is a stud. everybody gets so hepped up by beckett and that other guy (kurt ?......the name escapes me right now). clement with the stuff he's got could be a huge part of this team for years to come. he's got the stuff to win 20. sometimes if they have the stuff they develop the head to win 20 years later (like that kurt whashisname guy). and it could happen. i mean it might not too but you dont give up on a guy who just out and out throw like that. i think you're doing a disservice to him calling our 4 even if he is. whisper it (sotto voice "he's our four") but don't let the kid catch you calling him that.
Gordo - April 8, 2006 8:38 pm
Arthur, that depends on what you weould call a travel agent's tour of hotels and resorts. In a lot of ways, I think 12-15 facility tours in under 10 days is a lot harder than Survivor. I accompanied her on a one-day tour of four places in Venezuela. Interesting, but mind-numbing.
Alan - April 8, 2006 10:29 pm
Gordo - we now have mutual acquaintances near your folks. Twins in the family. No more details here.
Ross - what if Roger shows? What if it is Shilling, Beckett, Clement and Clemens? Is that not the top top 4 your have ever seen in your life?
portland - April 9, 2006 2:37 pm
what about boomer?
top 4 i've seen in my life
1. cuellar, stone, jim palmer, and martinez
2. smoltz, glavine, avery, and maddux - these guys settled it for me for that winning a lot of games is all about pitching.
3. dodgers could pitch a ton in the early 90s too. who was 4 with fernando, sutton and herchiesher (sorry about the spelling orel)?
and
4. sentimentality demands i nominate rogers, charlie lea, bill lee and david palmer (i'm picking palmer over scott sanderson because i can).
portland - April 9, 2006 2:58 pm
and what about wake?
i guess my point is that if roger comes in and wins 17 (not even roger can win 20 if he starts in may - and even 17 is highly unlikely), you've got other guys who you know are going to win 13, 14, 15, 16. the one of or two game bump you might get from roger (might?) is at what price? he ain't worth it. maybe to texas but not to this team. and besides, i don't like him anyway. i already have enough of hard time putting up with schilling shooting his dumb ass mouth off.
Gordo - April 9, 2006 11:55 pm
Alan - I work with the twins' Grandfather as well. The City's a bloody small place, isn't it? :-D