Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to the most awesome, illest, bocan Lady out there! Love You!

Bored at work?

Things running a little slow today at the old office? Go here, www.freerice.com you can work on vocab, learn a new language, or master your sciences, and every right answer donates rice to people in need. It's so cool. Thanks to Carissa for the heads up.

So yesterday was a long day, not enough sleep, work dragged to the point that I would sneak off to take 5 minute naps at my desk, terrible terrible. But despite all this I decided to shoot some hoops post work. So I went out and shot and this random elderly chinese man showed up, and so we started to shoot around a little bit. He was wearing a fisherman's hat and plaid capri's and couldn't speak a lick of english. We obviously couldn't speak to each other, but that was easily circumnavigated with the lovely thumbs up, its international baby! Later he wrote on a peice of paper that he was 154 cm tall and was born in 1949. It was just really cool to hang out and sort of "communicate" with a 60 year old chinese man through basketball. The little things are so cool.

Making it through the week

You will turn your ear to me
You will hear my cry for mercy
You will loosen things unseen
What can man do to me?

Ken Griffey Jr.

When I was six years old my brother got this Griffey Jr. Upper Deck rookie card in a pack of cards by Toys R' Us.

And I was hooked ever since. I became a Mariners fan, I started wearing my baseball pants long and my hats backwards, I wanted to bat like him, I wanted to be left handed like he was. I had posters, I played his video game, I even tried to get my ear pierced. He was my baseball idol and I've followed him for the last 19 years. Through the good times in Seattle and the not so good times in Cincinatti. And so last night, I took the 60 mile trek down to Denver with the hopes of finally seeing the man play in person. The Rockies are in the NL, and Griffey is now 39 years old and pretty much only DH's so things weren't looking too good. He wasn't in the starting line up, which was a little frustrating. But then, as luck, or God would have it, The Mariners were down 6-4 in the top of the ninth with the 7 8 9 hitters set to bat. Perfect! Could it be! A Griffey pinch hit in the bottom of the 9th to finish the game! I saw him get in the hole for the inning, and it was incredible. On Deck he still had it, still had that same swagger, that still perfect swing. And I got to see him bat for the first and probably only time in my life.



He worked the count and got walked. It was absolutely incredible! And so great to finally see him play before it became too late. Griffey Rules!!!!