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Empty Ballot Box

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With my new authority granted to me by my independent clinical social work license, I hereby declare that more of you need to vote for the Half-Baked Hall. We have 14 votes in so far, which is like 7 less than normal.

Also, FTLT and cheaptoy, give me your vote for Pete Alexander.

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    1. I meant to do it Wednesday but had something else come up and just forgot. I'll make an attempt tonight if the box is still open.

      1. The first part of this. I won't be able to get to it tonight though, so carry on without me...

      2. I'll post here when the box is closed. Probably after some huge slacker gets his vote in. (It's been a heluva week for me)

    1. It's a sad cup, opening its mouth wide to show you the gaping hollow that sits where its soul should be.
      Like Alphonse Elric.

      1. Not to worry. I recently caught a sentence in which I'd written "feet" instead of "feel."

  6. Again, I don't care if you sign up through this or not, but vis-a-vis the previous discussion, if you're thinking of Ting they just rolled out a big referral discount. You would get $100, I would get $50. (Most importantly, you would get $100). http://ze51oa3lkr8.ting.com

    Main site if you don't want to do the referral thing: https://ting.com/.

  7. Dr. Chop and I are stuck on a train headed back to Belfast from the Antrim coast. It was a magnificently windy day on beach, and the hike through the bog was sloppy, but what a beautiful day spent with my partner in crime.

    1. Sounds lovely. My partner in crime has strep for the second time in the past 5 weeks...such is life.

  8. Time for my yearly reminder that the Milklings are getting older. I've been impatiently waiting for summer so I could see them a little more. Summer is here now, and they spent most of the first week with friends. I saw them far less than I did during the school year.

    1. It only gets worse. Couple of weeks ago I brought the boy home from college. We were home at 4:45p. By 7:15p, he was out the door, coming home after I was asleep in bed.

    1. I liked the "Area baseball satirist completely out of material" article.

  10. In DC for the weekend. Got a tour of the Capitol (under repairs, looks like wearing hair curlers) earlier this afternoon. Planning to hit the Phillips collection tomorrow (might run into some of E-6 works there).

    Did Plan B for lunch, and it's as great as the West Hartford version of the place (had the Duck Burger pair).

    Just finished Philip Glass' Words Without Music. I'm a big Glass fan as was fortunate to see Satyagraha at the Met:

    Everything in between passes as quickly as the blink of an eye. An eternity precedes the opening and another, if not the same, follows the closing. Somehow everything that lies in between seems for a moment more vivid. What is real to us becomes forgotten, and what we don't understand will be forgotten, too.

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    1. That's a bummer, though hardly a surprise given the blow he took. I'm amazed that it wasn't diagnosed in the locker room following the play. The GS training staff has some explaining to do.

        1. although brain injuries are weird and poorly understood things. I'll give Kerr credit for not putting him back in.

          1. I really want to, but if I recall he was only not out back in because he was bleeding from his ear...

  12. Pretty tired, but came through surgery fine. Got started ~1 hour late, but it was easy as cake. Hope to listen to the ball game this evening while I'm in recovery. Thanks for the prayers and thoughts

    2. For what it's worth, my dad tells me that hips are easier to recover from than knees.

      1. Heard that from several people. Much more therapy needed to get back full range of motion; with hips, just walking takes care of most of that.

        I've already made a small pitstop walking with the walker - d@mn amazing stuff this surgery nowadays.

        1. Indeed. Also, my dad is something of an expert, having had the hips done twice and the knee once.

  13. Fien activated. Tonkin sent down. Didn't expect Duensing to be bumped by a right-hander. Was hoping they would just get rid of Stauffer. I'm guessing they're going to give him a chance to pitch before they jettison him to get down to a 12-man staff.

  14. Hmmm.....

    Transactions were paid for using the virtual currency Bitcoin, and Mr. Ulbricht, operating under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts, took in millions of dollars in commissions,

  16. *remembering the good old days when getting up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom was just an annoyance and not a major production...

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