Baseball Robbery
I went to the Astros game tonight with Raymond. A buddy of his showed up and joined us with his new fiancé. It was a bit awkward when I already knew her. Anyway…
Bottom of the 8th, down by two, two outs, one on, Berkman comes up. The Dodgers pull their set up man to let Gagne come in. He’s got an amazing streak of saves that’s only a few short of a record (and his pitching in the 9th was impressive). Berkman smacks the ball out of the ball park, almost dead away center. Problem is, the damn center fielder chases it down. All the way up Tal’s Hill, glove over the fence. Inning over. The place was dead quiet. It was an amazing catch, kept the game from being tied and possibly saved a record streak alive. I’m sure they’re running it over and over on ESPN, which I never watch.
People around me were grousing about Tal’s Hill, but I love the hill and think it was a great catch. Just happened to the wrong guys. Berkman had several good catches himself tonight.
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Engines: progress?
Engines of our Ingenuity, #1832
Just because things change, does not mean it is progress.
Indeed, I whole heartedly agree.
Does that make me a neo-Ludite?
I guess it depends on the particulars.
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Tuesday night out
Last night I first went to Rodney Crowell’s CD release party at the Continental. The Chronicle had a huge photo and front page story in the Houston section. Likely over 200 people there. Huge variety of fans. Many hadn’t been to the CC before. It was a great show. This was the band’s first gig together, but it was tight. Everyone enjoyed.
Then I made my way to Walter’s Ice House on Washington to see Tub Ring from Chicago. I hung out most of Sunday with a few friends and the guitarist from this band. Very nice guy. Apparently Walter’s got a sound violation recently and the show almost didn’t go on. There was a cop there when I showed up, but he wasn’t sure it was there that was the loudest (Mary Jane’s across the street sounded louder, and Silky’s was issuing noise as well.) The Walters parking lot had more people in it than the inside because the band that was on was INSANELY loud. There was absolutely no reason to be using half of the volume issuing from their stacks.
Tub Ring was definitely eclectic and punkish. With one under-ager appearing to be Chris Farley trying to slam dance with himself. The band was very animated including the keyboardist who both jumped on and slammed the keyboards against himself. Entertaining, if poorly attended.
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Lonestar @ Continental Club? No.
The Continental Club’s been getting calls from people about Lonestar playing this sunday. It humors me.  Digital City has it plastered as thier lead story (may come down soon, now that I’ve informed them of their error).
I assume the error happened because the website upcoming events said for sunday “Lone Star Juke Box” (Rick Heysquierdo’s radio show on KPFT) which got broken into two lines. Digital City Dude read it wrong. Didn’t check their schedule – County Fair, Eugene, OR. Didn’t discriminate “Lone Star” v “Lonestar”.
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Charlie’s Place
Tuesday I helped Welder Dave (a.k.a YoYo) level, tack down and start welding together the 4 bar top parts. It’s starting to get super-solid, ready for bartop dancing. Steve W. was in from Austin and got the vinyl “tuck and roll” treatment done to the riser and bar rails Mon & Tue.
Today Pete and I tiled the men’s room (a white and dark gray checkerboard) floor, and leveled the women’s room (after a previous failure in leveling with crappy leveler from Southland Hardware. It’s REALLY sad when the Home Depot has nicer materials!)
Two of the investors are leaning toward naming it Charlie’s Place or some variant thereof.
Tomorrow – more metalwork and tile (but i could be out late).
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Continental Club photos
more playing with my new camera
many photos at http://shirl.com/photos/cc.html
there were several that I really liked including 
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