Spring in Arizona... ahh... and you know what's on my mind? Spring Training, of course. Baseball is just around the corner, and it fills me with joyous anticipation. Daddypundit points to this 1987 listing from baseball columnist Thomas Boswell of 99 reasons why baseball is better than football. Just one example:
A typical baseball game has nine runs, more than 250 pitches and about 80 completed plays — hits, walks, outs — in 2½ hours. A typical football game has about five touchdowns, a couple of field goals and fewer than 150 plays spread over three hours. Of those plays, perhaps 20 or 25 result in a gain or loss of more than 10 yards. Baseball has more scoring plays, more serious scoring threats and more meaningful action plays.
I'm in the midst of what I guess you'd call a Frankalanche... The Lovely and Talented SarahK linked my "Dreaming of Bloggers" post at IMAO yesterday and the ensuing traffic spike has been beauteous to behold. I did hope SarahK and Frank J. would wind up seeing the post, but I wasn't lobbying for a link... Many thanks!
It's been awfully quiet at work lately - most of my coworkers have been reassigned, and I'm alone in my office the majority of the day. So, my Yahoo LAUNCHcast station has been keeping me company for the last several days. I created this station over a year ago, and I was surprised to notice this afternoon that today is the first time it's ever played "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Deep Blue Something for me. Love that song.
Ambra at Nykola.com has a new look for her blog - very attractive, I must say. I've been storing up a few links that I wanted to share with y'all, and one of them was a post of hers from a couple of weeks back about purity. Awesome, awesome post. If you are a single young adult, or if you have kids, or if you work with kids, take the time to read it... Gems like this abound:
The odd thing is, today virginity is usually packaged as this unrealistic option we shouldn't be teaching and a reality for which most teenagers are ridiculed. Yet the truth is, adults who've chosen not to test drive the car probably have to endure more naysayers than the average pimple-faced teenager. Then again, high school is all about perspective so the small things become big and vice versa (read: everyone eventually grows up and realizes that high school was a joke).
And while I'm on the topic of society and sex, check out this post from Dawn Eden about Planned Parenthood and their Teenwire website, which links to other sites that promote pornography and pedophilia. I've never been a fan of theirs, but the more I hear of this organization the more absolutely horrifying it is. Our tax money helps support these people? I'm going to be sick.
On to something to encourage and build up believers - GodBlogCon 2005 has officially been announced for Biola University, October 13-15, 2005. Check the link for details of some of the speakers and workshops planned... Mark your calendars, GodBloggers, this should be a great time. I'll give more details and links when available.
How often does this happen? I wound up having a real-life need to apply the Pythagorean Theorem over the weekend. Sunday afternoon we were kicking around in the mall and I was drawn into a furniture store because a comfy-looking couch was calling me. While I was in there, I became consumed with the idea of replacing our couch - it was a hand-me-down and rather beat-up (although nicely re-upholstered) when I got it over 11 years ago, and is now at the point that I can no longer stand dealing with the slipcover and the torn cushions and the metal sticking out. I found a small sectional (couch with chaise on one end) that is available in a fabric Hubby and I really liked... so we measured it, and when we went home we measured the living room and discovered we'd have to move the computer desk to make the couch fit. Well, that led to a plot to replace the (hand-me-down) put-it-together-yourself cheap computer desk with a corner desk. Unfortunately, with our entertainment center already on the wall where the computer desk would need to go, we had very limited space. After using the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate the maximum size of corner desk we could fit in the available space, we settled on this one. The tax refund arrives on Friday... Saturday we'll be out buying furniture!
You know, there has been a distinct lack of sucking up from the King of the Blogs contestants lately. I may just have to mark them all down for that. The last contestant who really understood the supreme importance of sucking up to the judges was Jon at Personal Trainer. We miss you, Jon.
More to come later today or tomorrow... more developments to discuss in the Terri Schiavo case, more linky-love and hopefully a couple of past-due restaurant reviews by the end of the week... Until then, I leave you with this question:
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