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Entries for June, 2009

What Can You Say About Baseball?

Baseball season is in full swing. When old-timers think about the game, names like Yogi Berra and Casey Stengel come to mind.
Yogi Berra  was a major league player and manager, inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1972 and one of only six managers to lead both American and National League teams to the World Series. Berra [...]

How’d The Indians Figure It Out?

So, it came to me today while we were buying fireworks at Fire Cracker Alley the Indian Reservation on Portland Avenue in Tacoma.  We came in and took over the Indian’s land, we learned from their ways and adopted some of them as our own traditions, such as Thanksgiving. 

Cute Things That Kids Say

“Not only are these fireworks illegal, they were very, very expensive.”
“Turn the lights off, you’re wasting elektrikitty”
“Mom, don’t worry about me staying home this summer, I’m going to self educate on the computer.”
“Kid #1-”Are you gonna smoke when you grow up?”
Kid #2-”No.”
Kid #1-”Are you gonna drink when you grow up?”
Kid #2-”No.”
Kid #1-”Are you gonna climb [...]

University Place Albertson’s Fail

We took a trip to the Albertson’s in U.P. today.  We went in to gather up some BBQ fixin’s.  We thought with this 80 degree weather it would be nice to relax with some Corona Light and lime while we wathced the kids enjoying their waterslide and the jacuzzi.  Well, we went to the wrong [...]

Must-See TV?

Now that television has ditched analog for digital-only broadcasts, I decided to take a look at what fine entertainment can be found in a random scan of channels, on an average Saturday afternoon.
Discovery Channel had Man VS. Wild. In the thick, green, humid, Panamanian rain forest, a man eats a bug, rubs sap on a [...]

Movie Review: Serial Bomber

I was looking at at some information on the web the other day while I was at work (when I should have been working) and found a list of movies filmed all or in part in the Tacoma/Puget Sound area. I wish I had the list in front of me because now I forgot how [...]