Opening Day!

Today is one of those days that I look forward to almost as soon as the final out in the World Series is recorded. Today is Opening Day for the 2004 Major League Baseball season! Yes, there were some games in Japan and yes, the official kick off was last night's beating of the Red Sox by my old home town Orioles with their new power line up of Tejada, Palmiero and Lopez doing major damage aganist Pedro Martinez.

Yeah, it didn't hurt that my old home town team has the best record in baseball right now but that's only because there have only been three games and the first two were split by the Yankees and the Devil Rays.

Anyway, we're headed up to the Coliseum tonight to see the A's and Rangers play. One interesting sidenote, the young surfer girl who got her arm bitten off last summer (I think it was last summer) is going to be throwing out the first pitch. Pretty inspiration story really. From what I've heard, one of the first things she said after being treated was to ask how soon she could get out and go surfing again.

Oh yes, my own personal medical triumph, the splinter, that nasty splinter in the tip of my index finger, has finally worked its way to the surface and was extracted over the weekend. Just in time to pinch the pad of the finger between the new, massive tv and the stand, resulting in a little blood blister and some torn skin. I don't think my finger is ever going to be allowed to heal.

The next step is to get some Giants tickets as well. I'm looking forward to playing around with the WLAN they've got at SBC Park now. Although, really, these days. I'm easily just as content to be working in the yard and listening to the game on the radio. There's something timeless and wholesome about it. Damn, that's another thing I need P to get from home before we go up tonight, my portable TV to tune in the Giants game on the way up.