chatter from the Library Monkey

Is summer here?

Beautiful day in the Adirondacks. Cold at night, but warm (sunny) during the day.

After the Tiger game I think I will go for a walk and check my phone machine… looks like Yahoo is acting up. Yahoo.com is okay, but my.yahoo.com is not. It’s just throwing up a white page, nothing on it. It frustrates my obsessive habit of constantly checking my e-mail accounts. I can go to mail.yahoo.com, but not from my.yahoo.com.

The Tigers are cruising in the fourth inning with a 6-0 lead over Minnesota. Chad Durbin isn’t pitching ‘lights out,’ but he is doing just what it takes. Plus the Twins pitcher doesn’t sound to be too effective and the Tiger hitters are. The starter only lasted four innings

Craig Monroe just cranked a 2-run homer to make it 8-0. Tigers are scary against a faltering team like Minnesota.

It was a tough week this week….mostly because of a stupid thing I said. I was asking the softball team who could play on Friday, since it looked like I would have to cancel the game, because of a lack of players. Turns out I would have only had seven players. two are ineligible and three weren’t able to make it (two because they were going camping).

So I am going down the list of who can or can not play and one girl says she can’t make it. She won’t tell me why and is being kind of clandestine. She is also one of the kids who said she couldn’t make it to the first practice because she said she had to go buy a ‘jet pack.’ So — without thinking — I ask: “What is it an AA meeting?”

Turns out her dad is a wicked alcoholic and has been through rehab at least once.

I felt horrible. I called the mother and apologized and called the girl aside. For a while I thought it might be where she was at an AA meeting. turns out she was one of the two going camping and didn’t want me to know. At least I think that was the case.

Fairly lame day. Took a name, which was when I was listening to more of the audiobook, which I ended up going b ack and listened to the Beatles early drug years. One thing I learned, that would be something that surprised me (in the fact I didn’t know) that the spelling of the ‘Beatles was not to be different, but to emphasize ‘beat.’

Other than that I watched a woodpecker for a while. The property around here is good for the woodpecker in that there are a lot of dead trees with bugs in them.

In the last week I have seen: turkeys, deer, a grouse, a couple woodpecker, many other different birds and snowshoe rabbit

Gratitude (3)

• I am grateful for a woodpecker
• I am grateful for my digital camera
• I am grateful for the Beatles

• pushups = 50
• crunches = 700
• squats = 700
• walk = 40 minutes