No Peanuts for sale at a baseball game? What are you, communist?
I worked in the hot dog stand at Bill Davis Stadium for the OSU v. Central Michigan baseball game last night (Buckeyes lost, 4-2). Did you know that they don't sell peanuts in the ballpark? Something about clogging the drains. Who builds a baseball park with drains that can't handle peanut shells anyway?
Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out to the crowd.
Buy me some popcorn and Cracker Jacks,
Who are we kidding?
Sadly, Perrin's Cockatiel Dimitri (AKA Bird) died Friday afternoon. It happened so fast. Robin noticed he didn't seem to be feeling well on Wednesday or so, and by Friday morning he couldn't hold himself up. We took him to an aviary veterinarian, but he died in the office before we got to see the doc.
Bird spoke one phrase, the rather narcissistic "Pretty Bird." Of course, that wasn't his fault. He ignored my constant attempts to get him to whistle the Close Encounters of the Third Kind alien tune, but that might have been my inability to carry a tune. And Bird always knew when someone was coming home. The car wouldn't be half way down the drive and he'd start screeching. Of course, sometimes he screamed just for the fun of it. That I won't miss
What I will miss is Bird accompanying Perrin while she practiced her flute. He always sang along.
I'm stunned that we don't have a photo.
This is the first year I ever filled out brackets for the NCAA basketball tournament. At first it was fun, I had an interest in every game... and I watched more basketball than ever. But then, it went awry. There's this tension between picking who you think will win, and who you want to root for. I wanted Xavier to beat UCLA, and I just had to root for Davidson. What's a guy to do? Doesn't matter too much anyway, I'm in 35,400th place in the CBS Sportsline online Bracket Challenge.
Hey, my final four were right on, that should be worth something.
April 8th update: alas, I picked Memphis to win, and finished 78,803rd. Bracket probably doesn't pay that deep, you think?
