I'm on my way home now, between flights at Chicago O'Hare. I'm waiting to see if Orbitz' "air traffic advisor" is right about late-afternoon flights being delayed by 45 minutes or more. So far, no posted delays on my flight to Philadelphia....
February 6, 2006
OK, I'm a Steelers fan by proxy (I inherited my fandom from Al, though I've been a backer of Hines Ward since his Georgia days), and I'm absolutely thrilled that they won the Super Bowl. Yay, gadget plays! Yay, Hines Ward! Yay, Ben Roethlisberger! Yay, Jerome Bettis! Yay, Coach Cowher! But what I really want to know is:...
August 28, 2005
When I was in junior high and high school, I thought I wanted to be the first woman head coach in the NFL. I watched football all the time, studied the plays, knew all the signals that the officials used (my favorite, for some reason, was the signal for clipping), and went to see Wildcats in the theater (I now own it on video :). Somewhere along the line that dream died, probably when I went to college and...
May 26, 2005
Tomorrow morning we are leaving for Vancouver so I can play in my favorite hockey tournament (and my first hockey game since getting pregnant). I'll attempt to blog about the games via Al's Blackberry; if all goes well, you'll be able to read the posts at The Ice Hockey Escapades. More here when we get back....
October 27, 2004
In the middle of tonight's fourth game of the World Series, Al pointed out to me that it's been 86 years since the Red Sox last won a World Series and that they last got *in* to the World Series in 1986. Then Tim McCarver mentioned that the last time the Red Sox won, in 1918, they won 86 regular-season games. I said, "then it's time to 86 the curse." And they did. YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!...
October 21, 2004
October 20, 2004
For everyone who said the Sox should take Bellhorn and Damon out of the lineup, take that! And that!...
October 16, 2004
Every time the Red Sox make the playoffs, I get excited. Like every other Red Sox fan on the planet, I think, "this could be the year!" And then they go down—in a one-run heartbreaker, or in a 9-run blowout—and I start to wonder: is every other team in the league (especially the one that just missed the Wild Card) thinking, "Jesus, I can't believe we wasted a playoff spot on the Red Sox again." I also think of...
January 19, 2004
Was anyone else reminded of the way Mimi Rogers played poker in her head-to-head matchup against David Cross while watching the NFC Championship Game yesterday? In case it isn't immediately obvious what I'm talking about, let me 'splain. Mimi Rogers was playing really well—while patiently explaining the mechanics of Texas Hold 'Em to idiot Scott Stapp— until the game got down to two players. At that point, she suddenly went from playing aggressively to playing defensively. She checked way...
May 15, 2003
It must have been quite a picture: a grown woman in a bright purple rain jacket (on a brilliantly sunny day), struggling to run uphill against a 20mph headwind while wearing stiff 10-eye Dr. Martens boots on her (blistered) feet and two laptops, a power cord, and an orange on her back. If it weren't for the Ducks-Wild game, I would have waited for my husband to pick me up in the car....
May 9, 2003
Well, the Wild beat the Canucks in the 2nd round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, so we've had to revise our plans. I honestly didn't think they'd make it to the third round (though, to be fair, I didn't think they'd make it to the second round, either), so no there was no hockey-watching in our weekend schedule. The new plan is to watch the Wild game on Saturday at noon, then go out house-hunting on the Peninsula (that...
May 8, 2003
My husband and I have an activity-filled weekend ahead of us, and I can't wait. We're planning another outing to Bay Meadows on Saturday afternoon, followed by our weekly hockey game on Saturday night. On Sunday we're going to see a few open houses in San Carlos and San Francisco, and then we'll have dinner with Terence and Kathleen. We're hoping that they can squeeze us in at the Slanted Door, but the backup plan (I think) is tapas...