This Edition of World Series Survivor Has Been Pre-Empted to Bring You...

This.

This is the baby boy in my wife's belly. Everything looks fine and we're expecting him to arrive sometime in December.


What a nice Christmas present...

Vacation #3

Vacation #2

My Vacation

Here are some pictures from my recent trip to Philadelphia/Maryland/DC

Reading Material

After finishing The Black Echo, by Michael Connelly, I went into a big library boom and collected A Mammoth Murder and Murder Among the OWLS, by Bill Crider, Murder in the North End, by Rochester native Patricia (PB) Ryan, and The Colorado Kid, by some guy named Steve. They were all enjoyable, but I gotta say that I liked Pat's book the best. It's not because of her location, either. She writes a good story with well-drawn characters and beautiful period detail (1870s). I just learned, also, while looking for these images, that the sixth book in her "Gilded Age" series is coming out in December, entitled A Bucket of Ashes. Here's a look:

















Edit: I just learned from Patricia's site that this is going to be the last in the series, and that all threads will be tied up nicely.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Back from Vacation

Well, I'm back from Vacation, and it's time to get down to business. I've got lots to blog about, but I'm way behind on my doomsaying. In the original plan, I was going to give Major League Baseball a reprieve for All-Star Week, but I missed a couple of weeks along the way, so I have to eliminate someone this week, and those someones are....

The Chicago White Sox. This is the first of the recent World Series winners that I have eliminated. The Cards are still in it. The Red Sox are still in it. You'd have to go back to the 1990 World Series Champs, the Cincinnati Reds, to find the only other recent Champ to be eliminated thus far. Which probably says a lot about the atmosphere of winning. But the White Sox are floundering. The pitching that they rode back in 2005 has been virtually depleted. They made a commitment to the future by re-signing Mark Buehrle, but the future is not now.

Yikes!

Holy Crow!

It's been over two weeks since my last post! Well, I've been taking a much-needed vacation to the Mid-Atlantic. It's something I can tell you about later. But I wanted you to know that the San Francisco Giants will NOT win the World Series this year. Barry Bonds appears to be one of those guys destined to never have a ring. Oh, Well. Too much controversey anyway.