Minor League Baseball, The Post Office and Other Random Tidbits

We went to a Staten Island Yankees game last Friday, the Staten Island team is the Yankees Class-A team. Class A is pretty much the lowest rung on the baseball ladder. It was kind of fun watching, although probably only 2-3 of the players we saw that night might make it to the big show. Some other tidbits from the game on Friday night, apparently being at Single A game gets you Single A service, my buddy and I waited almost an inning and a half on the concession stand line and there were only 5 people ahead of us. Going by what we saw on Friday night the majority of Staten Island is Italian, there were some interesting characters at the ballpark that night, none more so than the old lady who told one of my friends that he was talking to loud. I've been to hundreds of ballgames in my life and I have never heard that one before. Un-freaking-believable.

Had to run to the post office today during lunch, the post office on Columbus and 67th is always an experience. I walked in there, go to the automated machine which of course was out of service so I go on the line which was only 4 people deep, sweet. I've never seen it less than 15 people so I thought it must be my lucky day. Not so fast. I'm waiting and I see that this woman at the counter is shipping a rather large box and a suitcase. Yes, a suitcase. I mean who brings a suitcase to the post office? So it takes 3 postal workers about 5 minutes to decide if this is something that they can handle while I notice that the line is quickly growing. This post office has about 8 windows, 4 of them were open the other 4 were closed but had 3 workers at there windows talking about God knows what. Finally after waiting close to 15 minutes I get up, take care of my business and am done in less than 2 minutes. You have to love the U.S. Postal Service. No wonder the 2 most famous postal workers are Cliff Claven & Newman.

Its been hot as hell over here, tomorrow and Wednesday its going up to the 100's. I just love New York City in the summer.

Week 30

I can't believe I've made it through 30 weeks:

Food, Construction, Line outside of Tower, Flowers, My new video game, Minor league stadium, Matchbooks

Week 29

Pearl Jam on stage in SF, Mini Golf, Swedish Fish, A lot of change, Big PSP, Brooklyn Bridge, New Sneakers

Week 28

U2 Poster, Plane, Construction Update, Borat, Helicopter, "The" Girl's book case, Obnoxious License Plate,

Week 27

Rainbow over Manhattan, Chicken Marsala, 4th of July Fireworks, Signed Artie Lange DVD, My Buckeyes Jersey, My Keys, Manhattan at Dawn.

Week 26

A leg, Painter, Jesus Christo, Superman, The Divorce Papers, Art? at LC, Country Club

Hot, Hot, Hot

Like that song from the Dunkin Donuts commercials, its like 1 billion degrees over here in the NYC area. The fact that last weekend I was walking around with a sweater in San Francisco isn't exactly endearing me to New York City much more. Walking out of the airport on Tuesday was the worse, all the heat and humidity hit me like a punch in the face. I felt like turning around and jumping on a plane right back to the bay area. Oh well, I guess I have to make the best of it while I'm here and things could be worst, I could live in my old 'hood of Astoria, they haven't had any power since Tuesday. At least its the weekend.

Soccer, Heat and Whatever Else

The World Cup ended on Sunday with Italy beating France in penalty kicks. First off having to decide a World Cup on penalty kicks is a horrible idea, there has to be a better way. Secondly, I was happy to see the Italians win, anyone but the French. I'm a bit sad that its over, its been fun watching the games and seeing how much people get into this event. Its cool to see people standing outside bars and stores watching a game, its crazy how this brings so many people together. I get really into the World Cup but then I totally lose interest in soccer for 4 years, so its been fun this past month but I wont watch till 2010.

Its freakin' hot as hell in New York City, I'm so happy to be heading out to the bay area on Friday. I'll be in San Fran on Saturday and Sunday where the highs are only in the mid to upper 60s. Most of my time will be in the East Bay where it'll be in the 70s so it should be quite nice.

So the big story in NYC is about the guy that blew up his townhouse in order to stop his wife from getting it in the divorce settlement. Its funny because women's reaction has been "how horrible" while guys that I've heard talking about have been pretty much saying "good for him". Now, I'm not condoning what this guy did and I would hope that I would never do anything like that but I understand. That's a bit of Chris Rock humor on that last line.

Friday can't get here fast enough.