Welcome to the weekend friends.
It’s been a musical start to the morning today. As per usual I woke up to my alarm which plays Lady Antebellum’s I Run To You and when I got to work I started the YouTubing of more music and videos. I started with Linkin Park and Jay-Z, the MTV stuff. I’ve never been a big rap guy and I’ve never been a Linkin Park guy at all, but when you put the two of them together I like the Jigga stuff even better, and it makes the LP stuff bearable.
After the MTV sessions I looked for some Paul McCartney stuff with Dave Grohl, I lurve Dave Grohl. He’s the greatest, if I was going to worship a rock star, it would be him. If I were going to be gay, it would be for him. If I were to grow my hair out, like all the way out, it would be because of him. He’s that awesome.
After that search I skipped forward to Taylor Swift, it’s a little bit of a stretch to get to her from Jay-Z and Dave Grohl, but if anyone can do it, I can. I played 4 Taylor Swift songs, and could have gone on forever… but I didn’t.
And most recently, bringing us to now, we’ve gone to the Kings Of Leon. Their hits, Sex On Fire and Use Somebody make me happy. It’s rock music that I can enjoy. I remember seeing them on SNL and knowing that they were going to be a band to like and watch. So far I have not been disappointed.
Last night was baseball night. E-ve and were up in the 500s with a pretty good view from the first row just to the first base side of home plate. As I usually do, I showed up early to watch batting practice and such. The JumboTron was fun to watch before the game because they were showing the clinching moments of the 1992 and 1993 World Series Teams. And before the national anthems I was lucky enough to see one of the coolest things in my baseball fan life. About 35 members of those teams, including head office and clubhouse staff were on the field and were introduced one at a time. Huge ovations went up for many of the former Jays including; Roberto Alomar, Joe Carter, Dave Winfield, Paul Molitar, John Olerud and Kelly Gruber. Two of the most special cheers were for long time Blue Jays announcer Jerry Howarth and the wife of former announcer Tom Cheek who passed away in 2005.
Those 2 men were a huge part of my childhood. I would leave the radio on the local AM station all summer long and listen to baseball games before it was time to go to bed. Their calls took me inside the park no matter where the team was. But this is really a story that should be told another day.
Side note: I cheered extra loud for a couple of favourites. Jimmy Key was always number 1 in my book and so was John Olerud. 2 left handed dudes that made the game look easy and inspired a left handed kid to play.
Side note: The Jays lost the friggin’ game after getting out to a good start with back to back home runs from Vernon Wells and Alex Rios in the second inning. But it wasn’t meant to be.
I added Vlingo to the BB last night and so far it works pretty well. I haven’t tried many of the features, but I have used it to update the Twitter feed. It’s pretty cool, I just press and hold a button, say “Twitter: Currently writing the muse” and then I get a screen to confirm my update and everything is ready to go. It was a free download from the BlackBerry App World, but it is just the lite version. I don’t have full voice to text with this one, but that would have just made me extra lazy.
At work today, it’s been a weird week as far as schedules go. Friday and Saturday off, Sunday on, Monday off for the Holiday, Tuesday on, Wednesday off, Thursday training, Friday off, Saturday and Sunday on. It hasn’t been good for my internal clock and scheduling. But it has been nice to not be at the store every day.
I started my new Batman this morning on the subway. I feel awesome in a dress shirt and black pants reading comics. I don’t know what it is, but I feel like a grown up and a little kid geek all at the same time.
Time to go for now… Have a great weekend everyone.
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