Take Me Out to The Ball Game

Yo Lifers, what's up?

It's Opening Day. That's right peeps, the baseball season is upon us.

I love opening day. For me there's nothing quite like opening day. Now I don't necessarily have a favorite team, although I am partial to the Mets, Reds, Dodgers, and Cubs, but overall I truly am a fan of the game. I think baseball is the only sport where I can say I am more of a fan of the game than a fan of a team.  Maybe it's because we don't have an actual home team here.

I can't wait to be able to take my clowns to a game, buy them some snacks and watch them watch the game. I can remember as a child every now and then going to games with either my dad or uncle. My dad is a Cubs fan so that's why I have a soft spot for the lovable loosers. So I sort of root for them to actually win a Championship in his lifetime. And my uncle is a Dodgers fan. So growing up and spending alot of time at his house playing with my cousins, the Dodgers sort of grew on me. Now I'm sure that when we went to games as a child I never really knew much of what was going on, but just having them take me to games shaped my love for baseball. I will admit though that the seasons are to long.

Well so anyway, thank you to my father and uncle, and here's to another great opening day.

J-Tony

So tell me Lifers, are you a baseball fan?

What's in a Name

Hey Lifers. 

OK so today I decided to do something sort of fun. I Googled myself. Now if for some reason you live under a rock and have no idea what this means, It means I pulled up Google,  and typed in my name.

My results actually were a little surprising to me. I guess I was naive enough to think that I was special and there wouldn't be very many people with my name. It turns out there were over 5.8 million references to my entire, first, middle, and last name.

There were so many people with so many different occupations and stories to tell. Turns out there are 32 of us on Linked In. Several of us on Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. There are Attorney's, Musicians, Tri-athletes, motorcycle racers, chiropractors and a few bloggers, from all over the world. And that's just from the first few pages or so.

But you know, I never did find myself. Now maybe I would have had I kept searching, but since I was on my lunch hour, I didn't have that much time.

So then, just for giggles, I Googled my DW. Now as I've mentioned before my DW has a successful photog biz, so I would figure that I'd be able to find her pretty quickly right? That's correct. She was the first link to pop up, and actually her and her business consumed the entire first page. Wow.

So I guess that only proves that my DW is a rock star and I'm one in a million.

J-Tony

So tell me Lifers, you ever Googled yourself? Where you surprised by the results?

Just Another Day

Hey Lifers what's up?

So the other day the DW and I are eating dinner talking about the clowns, particularly the girls who are in school. The DW mentions how smart they are. To which I reply, somewhat jokingly reply, yeah they get that from me.

Without even looking up she says, No they don't...

So I  like to think that, being older then her, I know a little bit more about the ways of the world then the DW. However, as much as it may pain me to admit, the girl knows her grammar like Rain Man knows his toothpicks. She is constantly playing word games on her phone, and is a great speller. So I know that if we should happen to play a word game together, I'm going to get beat. And that's OK because I know this going in. It's her thang.

So the other day we're playing this word game, sort of like scrabble, and she posts a word. I don't remember the word now, but I do know it was a word I'd never heard of. So I questioned her about it. To which she replies it's a real word, I Googled it.

Yeah she doesn't fight fair.


J-Tony