| | i like pre-dawn driving.
PRE-pre-dawn driving, even.
3:00am to 5:00am is the best.
the roads are clear, and the few drivers out there at that time are outstandingly brazen.
running red lights,
running stop signs,
doubling the speed limit,
driving on the wrong side of the road.
... okay, maybe that last one is just me.
but it's like a secret nighttime driving club. the roads are wide open, and people just need to get where they're going. no on-the-way errands, just destinations. and everybody gives everybody else a wide berth. even during road races.
not that i'd ever road race, especially if i'm driving the Escort. if you dropped it out of an airplane it might max out at 55 mph.
anyway, if you're having a fit of insomnia, or you want to be at work REALLY early, i'd recommend checking out wee-hour city street culture.
i am probably obliged to say something about the 2009 World Series.
there have been 105 World Series.
the Yankees have played in 40 of them.
domination is one thing, but domination over a hundred-year period is quite another.
second-most is the St. Louis Cardinals. they've been to 17 World Series.
Phillies have been to seven. they've won only two.
better factoid for the Phils: it's been eight years since a team made back-to-back World Series appearances. the last one, of course, were the 00-01 Yankees.
as far as the 09 Series, Chase Utley hit too many home runs (5, tying Reggie Jackson's WS record), but he was countered by Ryan Howard who whiffed too many strikeouts (13, setting the WS record). the equilibrium of sucktitude was maintained, and NY won it in six games (as wishy-washily predicted by myself -- i called it in "six or seven").
go to the Body Shop and buy some hand cream or something. a portion of the proceeds of certain products goes to Stop Sex Trafficking.
pertinent information.
human trafficking, for sex or otherwise, is a for-real problem, even in North America. especially in North America as most people assume it doesn't really exist here. it does exist. quite enormously. cricket could rattle off some stats if you ask her nicely.
i want to do more. i want to turn into Liam Neeson in the movie "Taken" and kill absolutely everybody. trafficking is one of the worst things i can think of, and i am not afraid to freaking murder somebody for perpetuating that crap.
...which is why organizations like these work together to formulate more effective solutions.
also, i do not have a very particular set of skills. skills i have not acquired over a very long career. skills that won't make me a nightmare for people like you. i will look for you. i will find you. and i will probably accidentally shoot myself in the face.
retail, retail, retail... chicken catcher?
before becoming a manager, Joe Torre was a catcher in the 1960s. Bobby Bragen, a Braves manager at the time, once said, "I can't understand why he hasn't been nicknamed 'Chicken.' Don't you get it? Chicken Catcher Torre?"
i thought it was funny.
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