Now that Rick is in Kindergarten, the bus picks him up which means we currently have no kids to drop off in the morning.
42 thoughts on “August 29, 2023: Rideshareless”
Our youngest also starts kindergarten this year however the oldest is now in middle school so two different bus schedules instead of needing drop-off. It's going to take some time to figure out the right scheduling.
Yeah, Rick just started middle school, but it's within biking/walking distance, so we just have to make sure he gets out the door.
Kid2 is changing to the preschool at Kid1's elementary next week. We also got Kid1 into the afterschool program.
So instead of 2 different drop-offs at 7:30, a pickup at 2:30 and a pickup at 5:00, we've got one drop off and one pickup.
We are getting so much time back.
I miss the garage door going up at 7:45 and having to open the door to let the granddog in.
For those curious about the home run record:
most HR thru 130 games, MLB history:
2019 Twins: 253 2023 Braves: 246 ** thru 2 HR Mon
that 2019 Twins team set the single-season record with 307 HR
Atlanta's 246 is 42 more than second place's Dodgers. I think this year's Braves would have reached 350 in 2019.
was looking at GS data for this season (even before last night's GS) and noted that the Dodgers have eleven. dang
It's not too important and it was kind of ill-gained, but I'd still like to keep that record.
Most importantly we kept it from the Yankees, and I agree.
I lost my **** when Castro hit number 307
I would strongly prefer Atlanta not be the team to break it, though.
I unabashedly love that the Twins are the team that holds this record. I mean, we all lived through the Piranhas, afterall...
Imagine how many they’d hit if they got the Yankme Stadium-only balls.
and a bandbox
If any of you have a passing knowledge of model trains, you know about the different popular scales: G, O, HO, N, and even Zed
But I recently found out there's one smaller than Zed scale...T scale!
Do you ever mention you work at R(egular/eal-life) scale?
The scale names always bug me.
Maybe F(ull) scale?
I know G stood for Garden (Garten?) scale because they are large enough to be set up outside (like in Germany in Epcot). Don't know if the others scale names have meaning or not.
Is "H" "Half-O"?
That's all I've got.
In English. Everyone else uses half-zero.
The name H0 comes from 1:87 scale being half that of 0 scale, which was originally the smallest of the series of older and larger 0, 1, 2 and 3 gauges introduced by Märklin around 1900. Rather than referring to the scale as "half-zero" or "H-zero", English-speakers have consistently pronounced it /eɪtʃ oʊ/ and have generally written it with the letters HO. In other languages it also remains written with the letter H and number 0 (zero); in German it is thus pronounced as [ha: 'nʊl].
Alt Text: title="I don't know what's more telling--the number of pages in the Wikipedia talk page argument over whether the 1/87.0857143 scale is called "HO" or "H0", or the fact that within minutes of first hearing of it I had developed an extremely strong opinion on the issue."
Follow up to an earlier discussion:
As I reported on @ESPN1000 just now… the shooting at Guaranteed Rate Field during a #WhiteSox game was indeed an accidental discharge by one of the women “grazed” by the bullet. She reportedly snuck the gun in past metal detectors hiding it in the folds of her belly fat.
The White Sox: bad at baseball and stadium security!
I now regret initially giving White Sox stadium security the benefit of the doubt, thinking it would be quite difficult to get a gun past a metal detector.
The heavily redacted report noted that one victim “sustained a gunshot wound to the right upper thigh with an exit wound to the lower thigh and a gunshot wound to the right upper calve (sic) where the bullet traveled to down to the shin area with the bullet remaining lodged in the victim’s lower leg.” The other victim, the report noted, “suffered a graze wound to the lower abdomen and refused EMS services on scene.”
No wonder the one that was grazed refused medical services.
I would suggest the woman who was shot be gifted free Pale Hoser tickets for life, but she’s probably suffered enough already.
WTF? Ligue family reunion?
Holy cow. Soon we’re all going to be subjected to pat downs.
Chicago will need body cavity searches, apparently.
Josh Donaldson DFA'd. Couldn't happen to a nicer person or ballclub.
Josh Donaldson DFA'd by the Yankees.
The Twins currently have nothing to show for that trade (cap room, I suppose) , but still fleeced the Yanks
Not much to show in the first place since one of the returning players, Sánchez, left as a free agent. Freeing up money and addition by subtraction were the point.
For sure. Dropping the tab on the Yanks was plenty.
What's the line on Royce hitting one for a third game in a row? I'm pinning this one on the rest of the lineup to at least set up the opportunity
The Angels have put Giolito, Matt Moore, Reynaldo Lopez, Hunter Renfroe, and Randal Grichuk on waivers.
Absolute joke of a franchise.
The Twins should claim all of them.
Seriously? Giolito and Lopez still have the WSox stink on them.
What better disinfectant than coming up to Minnesota?
I'm guessing (meaning I'm not going to take 1 minute to look at the standings) that the Twins have one of the poorer records among teams in the playoff chase. So they should have a shot of getting one of these guys off the waiver wire. Who would you pick. I'd say either Lopez or Moore as I think the bullpen still needs shoring up.
López has a FIP/ERA just under 4.00 and is projected for that the rest of season. Moore has a 2.30 ERA and 3.5 FIP but projections predict worse performance the rest of the season. Both seem like great waiver pickups.
Waive Ohtani, you cowards.
Seeing a reasonable argument that the players were placed on waivers today to allow the claiming team to put them on the postseason roster. I find it somewhat convincing but still damning on the Angels' decisions at the deadline.
Byron Buxton in center field for St. Paul on Wednesday. #MNTwins
Our youngest also starts kindergarten this year however the oldest is now in middle school so two different bus schedules instead of needing drop-off. It's going to take some time to figure out the right scheduling.
Yeah, Rick just started middle school, but it's within biking/walking distance, so we just have to make sure he gets out the door.
Kid2 is changing to the preschool at Kid1's elementary next week. We also got Kid1 into the afterschool program.
So instead of 2 different drop-offs at 7:30, a pickup at 2:30 and a pickup at 5:00, we've got one drop off and one pickup.
We are getting so much time back.
I miss the garage door going up at 7:45 and having to open the door to let the granddog in.
For those curious about the home run record:
Atlanta's 246 is 42 more than second place's Dodgers. I think this year's Braves would have reached 350 in 2019.
was looking at GS data for this season (even before last night's GS) and noted that the Dodgers have eleven. dang
It's not too important and it was kind of ill-gained, but I'd still like to keep that record.
Most importantly we kept it from the Yankees, and I agree.
I lost my **** when Castro hit number 307
I would strongly prefer Atlanta not be the team to break it, though.
I unabashedly love that the Twins are the team that holds this record. I mean, we all lived through the Piranhas, afterall...
Imagine how many they’d hit if they got the Yankme Stadium-only balls.
and a bandbox
If any of you have a passing knowledge of model trains, you know about the different popular scales: G, O, HO, N, and even Zed
But I recently found out there's one smaller than Zed scale...T scale!
Do you ever mention you work at R(egular/eal-life) scale?
The scale names always bug me.
Maybe F(ull) scale?
I know G stood for Garden (Garten?) scale because they are large enough to be set up outside (like in Germany in Epcot). Don't know if the others scale names have meaning or not.
Is "H" "Half-O"?
That's all I've got.
In English. Everyone else uses half-zero.
Relevant xkcd
Follow up to an earlier discussion:
The White Sox: bad at baseball and stadium security!
I now regret initially giving White Sox stadium security the benefit of the doubt, thinking it would be quite difficult to get a gun past a metal detector.
From The Athletic yesterday:
No wonder the one that was grazed refused medical services.
I would suggest the woman who was shot be gifted free Pale Hoser tickets for life, but she’s probably suffered enough already.
WTF? Ligue family reunion?
Holy cow. Soon we’re all going to be subjected to pat downs.
Chicago will need body cavity searches, apparently.
Josh Donaldson DFA'd. Couldn't happen to a nicer person or ballclub.
Josh Donaldson DFA'd by the Yankees.
The Twins currently have nothing to show for that trade (cap room, I suppose) , but still fleeced the Yanks
No love for Alejandro?!
https://www.milb.com/player/alejandro-hidalgo-691576
Not much to show in the first place since one of the returning players, Sánchez, left as a free agent. Freeing up money and addition by subtraction were the point.
For sure. Dropping the tab on the Yanks was plenty.
Twins (2 yrs): 163 games, 128 OPS+
Yankees (2 yrs): 165 games, 91 OPS+
What's the line on Royce hitting one for a third game in a row? I'm pinning this one on the rest of the lineup to at least set up the opportunity
The Angels have put Giolito, Matt Moore, Reynaldo Lopez, Hunter Renfroe, and Randal Grichuk on waivers.
Absolute joke of a franchise.
The Twins should claim all of them.
Seriously? Giolito and Lopez still have the WSox stink on them.
What better disinfectant than coming up to Minnesota?
I'm guessing (meaning I'm not going to take 1 minute to look at the standings) that the Twins have one of the poorer records among teams in the playoff chase. So they should have a shot of getting one of these guys off the waiver wire. Who would you pick. I'd say either Lopez or Moore as I think the bullpen still needs shoring up.
López has a FIP/ERA just under 4.00 and is projected for that the rest of season. Moore has a 2.30 ERA and 3.5 FIP but projections predict worse performance the rest of the season. Both seem like great waiver pickups.
Waive Ohtani, you cowards.
Seeing a reasonable argument that the players were placed on waivers today to allow the claiming team to put them on the postseason roster. I find it somewhat convincing but still damning on the Angels' decisions at the deadline.
Feels miraculous.
this is pretty cool: