Has Anyone Seen Them In The Same Room Together?

SyndromeIf you hunt around on the web you can find loads of pictures of the Red Sox closer, Jonathan Papelbon, in mid grimace after the final out and some others of him doing his little river dance after the FRS won the ALCS, but I can’t find any of him in the dugout between the eighth and ninth innings during one of his long, 4 out saves to show you what I mean. But a couple times during this World Series he has been in there sitting on the end of the bench with his wild-eyed look, running his fingers through his hair vertically to make it stick straight up. This gave him a very distinctively disturbing look. Unfortunately for him this may have given away his evil super hero alter-ego – Syndrome!

Last night, Donna and I watched the whole freaking game three and it didn’t get over until like 1:00AM. Tonight we are going to bed at 11:00PM, no matter what, the Red Sox will win or lose whether I’m watching the game or not, because tomorrow is a work day and we won’t be able to sleep in until 8:30AM like we did today.

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You Talkin’ To Me?

JefferyThe laptop power connection is starting to act up. At first it seemed to be the power cord, but now it looks like it might be the connection to the motherboard. Right now if I hold the laptop just right on my, well, lap, the power comes from the adapter and not the battery. But it is getting increasingly more difficult to get it sitting right.

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Sixty Eight Two Seventy Eight

At 23:30 hours last night, 68,278 miles from Earth, we lost contact with the Luminix probe after it’s last pass of the moon Bownce. All attempts to re-establish communications have failed. It is a great loss for the scientific community and we won’t be seeing any more of those cool photos.

Tonight in my driveway, just beating the darkness, I transfused the Emperor’s oil and did a kidney transplant. I also swapped his gloves with his shoes. Coincidentally the car’s odometer read 68,278.

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And If The Band You’re In Starts Playing Different Tunes

Dark Side of the MoonPlanetologists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory studying this photo from the dark side of the moon Bownce, believe that the red areas are large deposits of copper and the faint yellow indicates that there might be sulphur just below the surface.

May not be big news where you are, but they opened a new Wal-Mart Supercenter here today.

They may have opened a new Wal-Mart in Beantown today, but I wouldn’t know because I don’t subscribe to the company newsletter. I know they opened one here because it was front page news in the local paper. If they did open one in the Boston area I bet they did a box office business in Red Sox paraphernalia.

I got exactly what I didn’t want last night, the FRS scored a baker’s dozen worth of runs, so although I didn’t see it, I bet somewhere in America a sports page headline read, “Sox Rock Rox.” I’m afraid to mention that I don’t want to see the Rockies score a bunch of runs on the Red Sox, so that someone can get to write the opposite, for fear of it happening, so mums the word.

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Liquid Sunshine

May not be big news where you are, but it rained here today.

Its raining in Beantown too, making for a messy game one of the MLB Championship Series. Posting may be light for the next 5 to 9 days as my normal blogging time coincides with the TV broadcasting of the FRS and the Colorado Rockies. Plus I can barely concentrate long enough to post something without any distractions…

As much as I’d like to see the Red Sox score tons of runs and win a World Series game, I don’t really want that to happen so in the morning I’ll see a sports headline that reads, “Sox Rocks Rox.” Whatever the score of a Boston win, I can bet somewhere, that that will appear in print.

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Magic Mirror

After living in the remote wilderness of West Virginia all his life, an old hillbilly decided it was time to visit the big city.

In one of the stores he picks up a mirror and looks in it. Not ever having seen one before, he remarked at the image staring back at him, “How about that! Here’s a picture of my daddy.”

He bought the mirror thinking it was a picture of his daddy, but on the way home he remembered his wife, didn’t like his father. So he hung it in the barn, and every morning before leaving for the fields, he would go there and look at it.

His wife began to get suspicious of these many trips to the barn. One day after her husband left, she searched the barn and found the mirror. As she looked into the glass, she fumed, “So that’s the ugly bitch he’s runnin’ around with!”

T Plus Six Days

Close up of the MoonA little more than six days into the Luminix mission we received some photos back of surprising clarity from the sunny side of Planet 52’s moon Bownce. The surface is fairly smooth with little cratering. At this point we are not sure what to attribute the unusual coloring to.

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