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Friday, October 7, 2005

If you catch me when I’m grumpy and tired, as I was today, you get a whole different person. I might tell you what I really think of you. If you’re the Boss, that could get me in trouble. But you’re either so surprised that I insulted you that you don’t know what to say, or you’re so oblivious that you don’t realize what I said.

On the extremely other hand, if you’re the insurance agent and I usually don’t give you the time of day (if I can help it), you might be surprised when you call and I start cracking jokes with you. You don’t need to know that this is what I do when I’m punchy from lack of sleep (or drunk, which was definitely not the case today). All you need to know is that I have this charming side to my personality, and then you can maybe treat me a little better the next time I need something from you. Thanking you in advance, and all.

If you’re an inanimate object, I might have tripped over you today. If you’re something I tried to pick up, I probably dropped you. If you were my water glass, sitting next to me on my TV table, you already know that I knocked you over and spilled your contents all over four remotes. If you’re the wall, I’m sorry I punched you.




7 October 2005

Sunset.



It’s a good thing the weekend is here, so I can catch up on sleep. Tomorrow I’ll be around people I don’t want to insult, even by accident. I don’t want to drop anything, because it might be a baby. I wouldn’t mind losing the inhibitions just enough to get a few laughs, but I’d rather not be laughed at for walking through a screen door (although this has happened, more than once, at such gatherings). I’ll be hoping for the best, and more or less expecting it.




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So what’s this then, the curse of the Mientkiewicz? The curse of the Bellhorn? Is the ghost of Pokey Reese now haunting the Red Sox? Because they were never in the series that the White Sox just swept with a 5-3 win in Boston. The Red Sox fell behind today, 2-0, then tied it on back-to-back home runs by the best back-to-back sluggers in the majors, David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez. But the White Sox answered with a two-run homer by Paul Konerko, and three shutout innings by ex-Yankee Orlando Hernandez (hey, maybe that’s the curse). So there will be no repeat champion in baseball this season... The Angels did things the hard way tonight in the Bronx, taking a 5-0 lead and chasing Randy Johnson early, then having to come from behind in the late innings to beat the Yankees, 11-7, and take a 2-1 lead in the series. The Big Unit, brought in by the Yankees after last season’s playoff loss to get them to the World Series, failed, while two players who have been with the Angels their whole careers, Garrett Anderson and Darin Erstad, had seven hits and six RBIs between them. I can’t help feeling good about that.

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