Looking at the forecast, every day is expected to be over 60 degrees. Excellent.
It's a bit overcast, but hopefully a Celtics win in Miami followed by a Red Sox victory in Fenway should make this day an exciting one.
My morning exercise and cleaning was set to the soundtrack of Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms and Making Movies. As a metaphor for my career, and for everyone's stability and success, I share "Solid Rock."
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Springy Saturday
It is a beautiful early Spring Saturday. The sun is out, and the temperature is just over 60 degrees. Lovely day.
Went for a run earlier and then ran errands, including a stop at the Post Office, which always makes me think back fondly of going to the Post Office with my grandparents.
The Red Sox finally pulled out a win yesterday. My favorite moment of the game came in an email from my mom who wrote, "Lackey SUCKS!!!!!" So true. Reading the paper today, another funny moment, perhaps even some psychological warfare we're waging against our rivals, "The Yankees were unable to shower after the game because of a plumbing problem in the visitors’ clubhouse." Great move.
In other news, very sad to hear of the passing of Sidney Lumet. Lumet's book on filmmaking is an invaluable and hugely entertaining resource. Lumet seems to have done it all, big-budget, small-budget, tv, theatre, live television, musicals, and he had an undying excitement for making movies. In the last few years he was engaged in the digital medium and the openness it allowed for longer takes. RIP Sidney Lumet.
Went for a run earlier and then ran errands, including a stop at the Post Office, which always makes me think back fondly of going to the Post Office with my grandparents.
The Red Sox finally pulled out a win yesterday. My favorite moment of the game came in an email from my mom who wrote, "Lackey SUCKS!!!!!" So true. Reading the paper today, another funny moment, perhaps even some psychological warfare we're waging against our rivals, "The Yankees were unable to shower after the game because of a plumbing problem in the visitors’ clubhouse." Great move.
In other news, very sad to hear of the passing of Sidney Lumet. Lumet's book on filmmaking is an invaluable and hugely entertaining resource. Lumet seems to have done it all, big-budget, small-budget, tv, theatre, live television, musicals, and he had an undying excitement for making movies. In the last few years he was engaged in the digital medium and the openness it allowed for longer takes. RIP Sidney Lumet.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Fenway Opens...
Okay, no one expected this a week ago, but what a day for a fresh start!
Very excited to see the Sox take on the Yankees today, under very arduous circumstances. But the sun is out, the grass is green, and baseball is here.
I'm having trouble finding people in the office today, but this is an unofficial holiday in New England so I hope everyone has some excitement and that this day is a little more special than a regular Friday.
Go Red Sox!!!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
What The F?!
Certainly no one expected this. I haven't watched too much of the games so far, which is more a result of co-habitation diplomacy than anything else. What is worse than the Sox becoming the MLB equivalent of the Miami Heat, is that now we are the exclusive worldwide promoter and partner of LeBron James. Awkward and definitely not cool. Sad byproduct of of 21st century hypermedia branding.
On a lighter note, one thing I really did enjoy about tonight's game was the camaraderie of my favorite fellow Red Sox fan, my dad. I came up to Andover tonight and it was all worth it to be in the kitchen hearing my dad's cry of "That's bullshit!" directed at the screen in the next room. Of course, he would have said the same thing on a tough call in a win.
Get it together, Red Sox. You're real fans can't even afford to buy tickets to the games. At least give us something to watch for the second mortgage we all pay to cable.
On a lighter note, one thing I really did enjoy about tonight's game was the camaraderie of my favorite fellow Red Sox fan, my dad. I came up to Andover tonight and it was all worth it to be in the kitchen hearing my dad's cry of "That's bullshit!" directed at the screen in the next room. Of course, he would have said the same thing on a tough call in a win.
Get it together, Red Sox. You're real fans can't even afford to buy tickets to the games. At least give us something to watch for the second mortgage we all pay to cable.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Rainy Monday
So. . . Rough weekend for the Sox. Good to see that they still have a sense of humor.
Right now I'm more concerned about the Celtics. Shaq looked great last night, until he was in agony. The C's need him to get number 18.
In other news, I'm very happy to see that the National Transportation Board is authorizing a bus inspection. I've made multiple bus trips to and from NYC and Hartford over the years and, though being a bus driver may not be the best job in the world, it should never result in death. On my last cross country trip, which you know took me coast to coast and across over 3000 miles, the most aggressive driving I saw came right here in Connecticut by, you guessed it, reckless bus drivers. Truck drivers in the rain is one thing. Bus drivers are not in the same category. The truck driver has a load to deliver and no one on board. The buses are carrying innocent, paying customers. You can routinely see buses weaving in and out of lanes up and down I-95 with no concern for the other cars on the road or for the passengers on board. It's a bus, it's not a sports car; slow down and drive safe.
Right now I'm more concerned about the Celtics. Shaq looked great last night, until he was in agony. The C's need him to get number 18.
In other news, I'm very happy to see that the National Transportation Board is authorizing a bus inspection. I've made multiple bus trips to and from NYC and Hartford over the years and, though being a bus driver may not be the best job in the world, it should never result in death. On my last cross country trip, which you know took me coast to coast and across over 3000 miles, the most aggressive driving I saw came right here in Connecticut by, you guessed it, reckless bus drivers. Truck drivers in the rain is one thing. Bus drivers are not in the same category. The truck driver has a load to deliver and no one on board. The buses are carrying innocent, paying customers. You can routinely see buses weaving in and out of lanes up and down I-95 with no concern for the other cars on the road or for the passengers on board. It's a bus, it's not a sports car; slow down and drive safe.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Signs of Spring
It is a beautiful day in early Spring. Brilliant sunshine and blue skies populated with puffy clouds. A cold Northern wind is still swirling around, but it's a day of promise. Soon the trees will sprout leaves and the renewal of green will be with us.
Of course many New Englanders are seething today at the 0-2 start of the Red Sox. I'm not worried at all. They have several encouraging signs (Adrian Gonzalez, David Ortiz--Papi!) and a few bad breaks (you can't do anything about a seeing eye flair that lands on the foul line) so, as somewhere Bob Lobel is speaking of Adrian Beltre and lamenting, "why can't we get guys like that?"... the Red Sox are going to be great. It's a beautiful day today, on Friday it was snowing. The Red Sox will be winning soon enough.
Not that I know anything or care much about college hoops, how about UCONN making it all the way to the Finals, well done.
Wishing everyone a wonderful Sunday.
Friday, April 1, 2011
April 1st
There is snow on the ground but you've got to love it--April Fools in New England!
Today marks the start of the Red Sox season and I know which shoes I'm wearing. Let's go Red Sox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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