First off, here's some lovely mood music by Heinz Kiessling you may listen to, as you read this post. You might recognize it. (You may also recognize this and this.)
And now, the things.
1. My Detroit Tigers lost Game 6 of the ALCS last night against Boston, thus ending their season. It was a good season, I would say; taking the best team in the league to six games in the LCS is no small feat. Still, you can't help but point to the glaring miscues and underperformers (coughcoughPrinceFieldercoughcough) and wonder what might have been. I think there's enough left in the tank for another year with the same core guys -- minus Jhonny Peralta, of course, but this Iglesias fellow makes some pretty nifty plays at shortstop -- so we'll see how 2014 goes.
2. I think my 0-to-100 "Do I ever want to have kids?" meter has clicked down a notch recently. It's somewhere in the mid-70s, I think -- tough to read the dial sometimes -- but I've heard a few stories told by current-parents in the past week or so which have made me a little more skittish. But hey, if I meet the right woman tomorrow and we're married in six months and spittin' out babies nine months later, would I be surprised?*
3. This season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is right up there with any other. Season 8 was a little shaky in places, and I'm not saying season 9 is perfect by any means, but they're definitely making high-quality cringe-worthy television. I'd say it's the only TV series I follow these days.
4. I had dinner with an old high school friend of mine on Friday night, along with a friend of hers. She lives in the NYC area these days, and the other person works in a highfalutin' finance job with CIBC, and I didn't pick the restaurant... so I ended up paying more for dinner there than I believe I ever have before. (With tip, and including two beers, it ended up being in the triple-digits.) It was at a restaurant which looked like it attracted a lot of Bay Street types, and I am definitely not one of those... but let's just say I clean up halfway decently, so it's not like I rode my tractor up to the front door and left it idling the whole time. (Besides, it's in the shop; it needs a new Johnson rod.)
5. I brought absolutely zero work home with me this weekend. This feels incredibly bizarre.
That about covers it. Next time, we'll take a look at the evolving situation in Syria, and compare it to Real Housewives of New Jersey. The parallels, you'll see, are striking.
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* Yes, I would.
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