Happy 200th Birthday Abe!

Looking forward to the new Pennies!

Ah beisbol

We're still watching the Diamondbacks try to get to the post season. Of course, at this point, less than a week to go and two games down, they need help from the hated Dodgers. Actually we'll take help from San Diego and San Francisco (that's who the Dodgers play to finish the season).

Next Sunday we'll be going to the final game trying to win a shirt of the player's backs. I sure hope we win one! Must be nice to go spend $1000 on lottery tickets and win, but it would suck to spend $1000 and not win. We usually plop down $20 or so and have won an autographed baseball and cheesy radios. It goes to the Dbacks charity so that's ok.
Randy's pitching tonight and as has happened recently, he's not getting enough run support. Ok, it's 7-3 and 3 should be enough to win. John Rauch is actually pitching right now and is taller than Randy. How can someone be taller than 'the Big Unit'? Rauch is the tallest player ever in the Major Leagues. Big Unit indeed.
Randy should be who's pitching Sunday. Looking forward to that. We, as usual, have great seats and will enjoy going to the game. Mr. G, our friend and dog sitter is going as well. He's taking a break from his studies. Yay G!

mmmmm comfy

Apparently these guys don't know this is not how to act

"Oh, don't ever do that"

On our drive back to Tucson from Greeley, CO, we took E470 (yes, it has its own web site) so that we didn't have to drive on I-25 through Denver. It was just starting to be rush hour, so it really was going to be a time saver. We drove down highway 85 and pulled up to the automated toll booth. I threw in 75¢, but the mechanism that grabs the money and registers your toll didn't seem to be working. I thought that maybe it didn't get one or more of the quarters. I asked Mrs. Beisbolfan for three more quarters. Better to be safe than sorry. After throwing in three more quarters, one at a time, I figured enough was enough. The light hadn't turned green but we went through anyway.
At the first toll booth, I figured they would want to know that the booth wasn't working so I told the lady that the booth at the entrance from 85 seemed to be broken. I said that I hadn't wanted to be fined so I put in 75¢ more. She grabbed a card with the contact information, handed it to me and said, "Oh, don't ever do that." She went on to say that they film you throwing the money in, so they know that you tried. Live and learn. It was worth the money just to for the blog entry.

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Ok, this is kind of funny

I was browsing to some news article or other and saw this ad.

Two points for cleverness.

Oh Stealie!

How could a dog that looks this dignified,



end up looking like this?

I guess it's one reason we must heart dogs!