Virginia Is For Families

The Philadelphia Phillies were winning the game tonight 2-1 at the end of the 5th inning.  The field was a mess because of the rain that had been falling all night.  It was 39 degrees in the stadium.  The wind was blowing so hard that they suspended the infield fly rule.   A shortstop who had only made seven errors in the entire season couldn’t catch a routine pop fly.

So the game should have been called at the end of the 5th inning or ANY prior inning for that matter once the conditions became unplayable.  But that would have been the end of the World Series.  Game over.  Congratulations Philadelphia PA.

So they waited one half inning and when the Tampa Bay Devil Rays tied things up THEN they suspended the game.

Suddenly conditions were no longer playable.  And the Phillies didn’t even have a chance to bat in the same inning.  They got one less time at bat and the rest of the game will be played whenever the weather improves.

What changed in the first half of the sixth inning?  Nothing except the score.

Philadelphia was robbed.

, originally uploaded by Davidlind.

We are back in Richmond tonight.  Here’s a photo from this morning.  I woke up about 4:30 and the person next to me was still sleeping.  I slipped out and walked down to the beach.  Nothing was on my mind.  I was blank.   And I was watching this ship on the horizon.  After awhile it reached a point where the horizon started to glow a little bit and I thought “this must be where the sun is going to arrive”.

I have been playing with Photoshop CS3 this afternoon.  I downloaded a free copy (for thirty days).  Do you know how much this thing costs if you buy it?  Over six hundred dollars!!   Can you imagine?  Do you know what I can get for that much money?

Why I can get a Woodrat for six hundred dollars!   And a Woodrat will make all kinds of wood joints for your latest wood project without much effort at all.

Here!  Just take a look!

Or I can get more than half of the new lens I want in order to take photos far, far away from the bird or person who is walking around UNAWARE that someone is drawing a bead on them!   I can do this from our balcony at Virginia Beach.  Or I can go down to the river and finally take a photo of that heron who sits out there and cusses out the ducks.

But six hundred dollars for a CD and some software?  It hardly seems right.  What is wrong with these  people?  You can almost get a whole computer for this much money!

So I downloaded it for free (for thirty days) and I have been trying to understand why it could possibly be worth this much money.  And since I am particularly dim witted in this area things have not been going well.  I can see where it is possibly worth fifty or sixty bucks.

So we have a long ways to go.  But the rain appears to have let up.  It’s still dark outside but things are no longer filling up with water.  And I have been looking at the faces in my Blog Catalog widget. Most of them I do not know.  And I wish that I did know them.  But every face on that widget represents a challenge about as big as Photoshop CS3 to me.  It is not easy figuring out most people.  At least it is not easy for me.  If you have a knack for it you are truly a gifted person and you have a valuable talent.

But, chances are that if you are at least as complicated as Photoshop CS3 I will never understand you. If I was twenty five and found you extremely sexy there is a chance (if you are/were a girl).   Or if you became my in-law through some cruel act of fate I might figure you out.  Or if you decided to embed yourself in my comment page and never leave until you made your point I might grow to understand and (dare I say it) be fond of and admire you.

And I would appreciate you too.  Because it would not cost six hundred dollars to reach this happy moment.  But, on the other hand, you would not be able to fix my photos. You could enjoy them after they have become presentable.  But you could not lighten certain parts of them (which is called “dodging” I have just learned) or darken other parts (which is called “burning” I have just . . . fallen asleep.)

You would be full of pluses and minuses and you would possibly continue to confuse me long after this storm has finally wiped out the US Open and headed out to sea.  But that’s alright.  Life is full of challenges.

Do you have a help page?  Please send it along next time your smiling face appears in my Blog Catalog widget.  I need all the help I can get at this point.  I’m like one of those solar panels that gradually becomes useless in cloudy weather.  The ones you can get for a lot less than six hundred dollars!

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are;
but you must approach each man by the right door.  ~Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

Leona Lewis

I Will Be

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I feel the tiredness that tells me it will only be a few moments after resting in the bed before the sleep train will pull out of the station.   It feels so good.  And here is a flower photo because it has been awhile and flowers are our friends.  I should appreciate them more.  Maybe have some growing here in this room.   But now. . .sleep.

And then it is morning again.  Just like that!  And so dependable.  Never once has it failed to arrive although, of course, people don’t make it through the night all the time.  I hope to be one of those someday.  Just let me drift off in a dream and not return.

Here is a photo that struck me as being sort of interesting this morning.  Apparently we are heading back to  botanical garden mode as far as photos are concerned.  We are leaving the tropics behind.  We are leaving poetry and writing behind too.  I hear the sighs of relief.   Where are we going?  Not sure yet.  This weekend there is an air show around here.  But it’s supposed to rain?  Saturday is not going to be a good day for the US Open I hear.  Last night they said something about it during the Andy Roddick match.  I went to bed as they began the fourth set.  Who won?

So it’s maybe not going to be a good weekend to be outside.   But we shall survive.  Maybe I will read and write about some really good authors and poets.  I strayed too far outside my comfort zone in those areas and need to retire for awhile.  Maybe watch Craig Ferguson for a few hours.  He is so hilarious.  He has more energy than all the other guys put together and he is so funny.  In my opinion anyway.  Everyone has their favorite.  Beth really likes Dave.  The guy who has been distributing meat and cheeses to the Tri-state area for how long?  I don’t get it.