Catch up!

First and foremost, I will honestly tell you that I didn't even realize that I had not posted anything for...64 days. What does that mean?

Well, first of all (being the stat guy I am) it means that there have been 352 visits by people in that timespan that have gone away with zero of our life happenings. Secondly, it means that life has surely been busy!!!

-I must admit that the reason I am blogging is because I felt guilty after being in church yesterday. Should I feel guilty after leaving church....? I think that's a little too deep of a question for today. Anyways, I got a shout out from Uncle Ken during the sermon, and then when we were eating lunch he reminded me that I hadn't blogged since "1 week to go...", and he had expected to see something around the time when the Twins won game #163 against the Tiggers. So here's my shout out to Uncle Ken in the blog post that he inspired.

-School is going well. Definitely a different set of kids this year than last...different interests, different personalities, but that's a good thing I guess. If all classes ended up being the same, I don't think I would teach very long.

-Since I last blogged, I've had the opportunity to hit a number of baseball games. Linds and I went with a couple friends to watch our Kane County Cougars take on the Beloit Snappers in late August. Beloit is the Class A affiliate of the Twins, so I guess I was rooting for the visitors. We got to see a couple Top 5 Twins prospects play...which apparently only excited me, and got to watch an extra inning of baseball, also which excited only me.

-Kirk, Cody, and Tim made the drive out in late September to watch the Twins take on the Sox. We got some pretty sweet seats for a decent price, went home with two batting practice balls (thanks to Matt Guerrier and Jason Kubel), and a TWINS WIN!!! It was the first time I got to see the Twins win in Chicago, so it made the walk through the parking lot a good one. Its amazing how many high-fives and fist-pounds we gave to random Twins fans when we saw them walking out of the stadium.

-There were a couple days in the past few weeks where I was stuck watching games by myself on T.V. Linds has been busy with volleyball, so I had to watch game #163 and Game 3 of the ALDS by myself for the most part. Seriously, I think #163 was the best game I have ever watched from start to finish. I still have it saved on our DVR so I can watch it over the winter.

-Like I said, Linds has been really busy with volleyball, along with work and school. I've gone to most of their games, a couple tournaments, and a few practices. They're doing REALLY well. Volleyball as a whole isn't the most popular sport at school, and I think part of her goal was to make it a bigger deal. The last game I was at there were quite a few students there watching the game, which is good because then I don't have to pump up the crowd by doing backflips during timeouts.

-kidding

-One good story (as it turned out) from the past two months concerns the Beretta. I thought she was dead. Well, not dead...dying in an ungraceful way. It sounded as if there was some sort of fan or belt that was going out (not a mechanic, so I had no idea). But the weird thing was that it happened for 1-2 sec and then stopped for about 5 sec, and then it would start again. It was so bizzare that I wasn't sure how to explain it to the mechanic when I took it in for a routine tune-up. Well, he heard it as well but couldn't figure out what it was from, so I took it home and we started looking for a new vehicle. Now you need to know (and it sounds rediculous), but I really like my car. I've had it for 8 years and 4 months and its the only car I've ever called my own. If it was dead on the side of the road or I couldn't get it started in the morning, then I might've felt differently, but it just wasn't that unreliable. I felt pretty good about getting an Equinox for it, realizing that I would let Linds drive it and I would probably take the Regal to work. Anyways...back to the story... We were driving to school together on a Friday, and the next day we were planning on going to seriously look at vehicles. As we were driving, it was like I had an epiphany (as Mr. Vanderaa would say) and I shut off the defrost of my car. The noise stopped. We sat in silence for about 10 seconds before Linds got the courage to say "There's no way." Then she decided to turn it back on. It wasn't more than 2 seconds later that the noise started again.

Moral of the story? Still kinda excited about getting an Equinox, so is there anyone interested in a '93 Beretta with a duct taped front end, no AC and (now) no defrost? Heater still works for now, so jump on it before that dies too!

-I think I'll probably try and do a Twins season recap sometime. You know me and blogging, so hopefully it happens. I think its more of a "get away from it all and somehow still feel productive" thing.

Just want to leave you with a few stats since I began tracking the visits to the blog.

Total visits since Jan 1: 1,838
High visit day: 19 (January 5 & September 8)
1000 visit day: May 28th

So long everybody...