Let’s call it a sabbatical if you will. Like many bloggers out in the blogosphere I got a little tired of coming up with new ideas day after day and because of that I started feeling like I wasn’t putting out very good stuff after awhile. This happens to everyone, or at least that’s what the girl always tells the guy when they’re in bed together in the movies.
So it’s break time for me for a little bit longer. I hadn’t realized how long it had been.
Anyway, kudos and salutations to David Griep everyone! He’s the first person I don’t know personally to comment on the blog! A big round of applause for Dave! Thanks Dave. Here’s his comment, over at the Beach Boys/Manson post.
I’ll be back. I promise.
Maybe I’ll talk about robots or something.
Baseball, in this day and age, can seem to take an eternity to watch. Especially if you’re going into the 8th with a 0-0 tie on your hands. But the longest baseball game in major league play was played between the Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee Brewers at Comiskey Park in Chicago. The game started on May 9, 1984, and because of MLB rules, the teams had to quit playing at 12:59 am of May 10, so the teams came back the next day to finish what they’d started the day before. All in all, the game lasted 8 hours and 6 minutes, with a final score of 7-6 in 25 innings. The White Sox won, by the way, on a home run by right fielder Harold Baines. The shortest MLB game on record took place on September 28, 1919 between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Phillies at the Baker Bowl in Philadelphia. It took the Giants only 51 minutes to beat the Phillies, 6-1. 
Being a dad I’ve hosted birthday parties in the past and have often had to go to birthday parties of the children of friends of ours. It’s a trade off – you buy my kid a gift and that entitles your child to receive a gift from my kid at your kid’s next party. Every parent is paying off the other parent so that their kids can get something at the birthday party when it rolls around to being your child’s time again.
