Archive for May, 2009

The highlight of a very busy week is a bit unusual, even for me and some of my antics.  I was adopted and upstaged–by a 7th grader.  I’ll get to that in its proper place.
The long home stand of the Potomac Nationals started off great. Friday’s game was solid.  Saturday’s was awesome and all that [...]

Once again, I’m departing from my usual format of reporting on Big Red’s activities in the funnel cakes business.  That report will come after tomorrow’s American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life in Danville, Virginia.
Earlier today, LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens said in an interview that she would encourage golfers to use Twitter and other social media [...]

Most of my posts are related to  Big Red and the funnel cake business.  This week, I feel obligated to divert from my usual format to discuss a problem.
As I’ve twittered for the past few days, I’ve been in Harrisonburg helping Peggy, her son, Todd, and her grandson, Kagen, move.  They’ve been in a condo/apartment [...]

To all my many readers, both of you, this post will not be full of prose and biting humor.  Due to time constraints, it is just a brief report and then I’m on the road again.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday  was a short 3 game home stand of the Potomac Nationals at Woodbridge.  Since it was [...]

Big Red’s sojourn into Maryland for the Bethesda Fine Arts Festival proved
successful despite a few bumps in the road.  Thankfully, none of those had anything to do with the festival.
Big Red, nor I, do very well in 16 lanes of traffic especially on Friday afternoon during rush hour.  That’s when we got to Maryland.  Back [...]

Big Red’s Crew scored a major victory this weekend at the races at Richmond Raceway. While we’ve become accustomed to long lines at some of our better events, we were shocked to see  50-100 people in line for 9 straight hours.  It just never slowed down.
My week started out poorly on Tuesday.  I dropped off a [...]