Re-sult!

Yay, my favored baseball team pulled off a win today.  They tried to give the game away, but then wound up hanging on until one of their sluggers was able to drive one out over the fences.  So much improved compared to last season it's hard to imagine that they are basically the same team.  Though a co-worker has argued that they aren't close to the same, if I went position by position and looked at this year versus last year, it's hard to see this team as one that should be so improved.

Before I forget, Happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers out there.  I sent flowers to my own mother and to my now-departed wife's mother.  My own mother was pokin' me to be sure to be sure my kids or I did something for her (wife's mother) as my mom was concerned that my wife used to do all of the work of planning around gifts for such things.  Little did mom know that I was already pretty much a step ahead and while my wife was the one that handled many of the holiday rememberances and such, mother's day is the one that I never forgot and always pretty much covered.  Others (birthdays especially) are the ones I have the harder time with.  I just can't keep track of so many different dates.  As it turns out, I don't think my wife could that well either, but she made it seem as if she could because she'd write down the important dates in some of the notebooks and journal types books she had.  Those seemed to be her cheatsheets for such things.

A good friend's second child will be graduating high school soon so it seems, while I'm on the topic of gifts and such, that I need to pick up a gift card for that event.  I honestly don't know if I had done something when his older child graduated.  My wife might have, but then again this was my friend, so who knows.  I hate the idea of sending something to one child when I might not have remembered the other.  Makes me feel stupid and also worries me that one child might feel that I was showing favorites or something like that.  Definitely no slight intended.

I did send a graduation card to another family's child that I know.  The folks that used to run the little sub shop/deli near my home.  Sadly they closed their business due to the economic slowdown, but I had gotten to know them fairly well and used to see them regularly in the shop (including their kids who they had working for them at the shop).  I admit to being a little lazy about the gift (gift card) as I just didn't have any idea what to get, but hopefully it'll still be useful.

I'm sitting here currently, middle of the afternoon, feeling a nap coming on.  I didn't get all that much sleep over the last few days (lots on my mind I think), so I'm feeling it now.  I may take a nap after taking my extra set of eyes out (contact lenses).  Later tonite I need to wash my linens, so I have that to look forward to after the nap.

If memory serves there's a couple of TV shows that I'll try to catch tonite.  Celeb Apprentice is one I know of.  The Pacific also.  Beyond that, who knows, but I'm sure something will come up.

.... to be continued next time