Tomorrow is opening day of baseball season in Seattle.
Today it was snowing when I left work. Large sloppy wet snow, but still, baseball, tax day, it is past the time for snow.
Nonetheless, I believe we will hold to our plan and walk to the game tomorrow, report to follow.
And for those Phillies and Tigers fans – my condolences.
I don’t remember Harry Kalas, but I do remember Mark Fidrych. And I wasn’t really a baseball fan at that point.
Not mist, not a thunderstorm, not showers, just rain.
Continuous rain.
What to do? Go play soccer of course.
Thankfully the temperature was not too low, so it was just wet.
Wet, wet, wet, wet, wet.
Hat (had to take it off anyway), glasses (take them off too, can’t see with drops on them, of course the seeing with them off is also limited), sweatshirt, team shirt, underarmour and the jogbra – all wet. Pants, shorts, unmentionables – all wet. Socks and shoes too.
Home and leave it all on the basement floor for the launderer.
Hot shower and finally time to sit down and take a load off my tired legs and feet.
By the way – we won 5-0. Our goalie got to play out of the net for the second half – fun for him. No women subs (Easter and I think both our team and the other team had several members eating a nice hot dry dinner.)
Thankfully most of the Easter egg hunts are held on Saturday when rain was limited. Today it was/is just rain. Kind of refreshing.
We spent most of the day going here and there, mostly there.
First up the Seattle Women’s Chorus matinee. A great show with lots of Broadway tunes.
For the evenings entertainment we saw the Seattle Sounders – LOSE for the first time. Really it was a pretty good game, but they red-carded the first string goalie at 30 minutes in for handling the ball outside of the box. A red-card offense. I don’t really fault the call. But it meant that not only did we have the second string goalie, they had to play with one less player for the rest of the game.
No walk around the lake today, but we did walk to and from the afternoon show, and parked a ways away from the stadium so we would have a good walk to and from the soccer game as well.
That and calls from both kids and it is time to call it a day.
Got home a little later tonight and chatted with the Boy. The Carl surprised me by asking me if I wanted to go for a walk. Of course I said yes. It was 7:30 ish (missing Jeopardy!) so it was a bit later than our other walks.
Back to Green Lake for a quick walk around. Now Carl is a counter, and he inquired as to what we should count. I decided that it was probably a bit late for strollers (the wheeled variety), and went with Cell Phones. Carl chose dogs. Amazingly, during the 3 mile walk we saw 10 dogs but only 3 Cell Phones in use. And 2 of the cell phones were really the same phone with the same talker as we passed her the second time. One cell phone a mile. I would never have guessed it would be such a small number. Now we did not count the total number of people passed in the three miles so can not report on the frequency of use per population. And certainly there were many fewer (figure that one out – it’s late) people than on our earlier walks, so while the cell phones per mile number would certainly be higher, perhaps the cell phones per person would be similar.
Anyway, that is probably a good thing (to not have so many cell phones). It’s not really a contest, but I would have had more to count if I had chosen I-pods.
I feel like I am awake.
The hair is washed, I’ve driven 25 miles (successfully) and I even had a discussion about emergency response.
But then I took a sip from my home travel coffee cup, set it down and poured creamer into a different cup. Now if I follow through I will have two cups at the same time.
We had the opportunity and weather for a quick 3 mile jaunt after work and before dinner. Once around the lake. Carl has done it by himself almost every day this week, but during the day. I was home, not early – but early enough, nothing else on the docket, and our rainy day was really lacking rain. (Weather people!) Well it did rain overnight, so they weren’t completely wrong. And I am not complaining. My favorite Carl moment was when we passed a couple with a small furry dog, and Carl muttered, “Swiffer”.
Hm, the news just said the stock market is not open tomorrow, Good Friday. Interesting choice for this type of institution.
Carl took one of his little ones to the zoo this afternoon. One of the exhibits they visited was the Gorillas where they found a mother and baby. The baby was riding piggyback on the mother. As they walked away to the oohs and aahs of the on-lookers, the little one started peeing down the mothers back. Undaunted the mama did a number two. (Carl said it looked like horses–t (think Mackinac Island)). Ah, fun at the zoo. It provided at least some additional conversation. [Note all three kids are in some stage of toilet training.]
I have spent my evening working on fundraising.
My current effort is writing reviews for a web-site.
They give you a small donation for each review, if they don’t have too many for the place, no chains, yada, yada, yada. Between 0.25 and $1.50 per review.
It’s not too bad, but I realize that I don’t get out too much.
Upstairs – AM radio with Mariners v Twins on KIRO 710 (Seattle feed)
Downstairs – XM radio with Twins v Mariners on Minneapolis Fee
TV in dining room – CBS with Final 2 of MarchApril Madness (MSU is a bit down) (no sound)
TV in living room – ABC with Jeopardy (for another minute or two)
Computer in living room – WordPress (obviously) and whatever other
Newspaper in the dining room – love being able to do the crossword while brain dead
OK, we could probably turn off one of the TVs at this point. I think I have settled in for the evening.
Finally.
We took a walk (at last) where I had on a long sleeved t-shirt and fleece. I should have left the fleece at home so I wouldn’t have had to carry it. Wow – so many people out. We walked from home around Green Lake – packed with white bodies (not all were white really, but the Seattle Winter White), up to Mae’s Phinney Ridge Diner for brunch, and then through the Zoo (also packed – parking lots full). We actually just cut through the zoo and didn’t look for animals too much (so many people). Carl is a counter, and if only we had thought to count strollers, we would have been into the hundreds.
And – the taxes are finally filed! We are even getting a return, and despite my starting them months ago, I just got around to figuring out where to put the 529+Coverdell information. Turbo doesn’t quite lead you down that road, but I knew it was somewhere. Thank god its the last year I have to go through the Coverdell gyrations. That account has been drained. The latest info didn’t change anything on the amount of the refund, but I feel better knowing it is correctly reported….
Time for BASEBALL. The Major League opener starts in less than 1 hour.
Carl will surface again in October.
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