The Bar Has Been Raised…

Up to 52 MPG! Due to a nice solid Seattle trip and a deft touch on the gas pedal, I’ve recorded a new personal best on a full tank in the Prius. Note the total mileage… over 500 miles for the tank, with an average of 52.7! Great Success!

As Halloween Approaches…

and I am going through our garage, cleaning it out and throwing stuff away, I run across Marissa’s costume from last year. I end up tearing it apart and recycling it, but I felt like I really needed to post the picture here because it was so GLORIOUS and I was so proud of my handiwork…

As you may remember, we used to drive a silver XB, thus this went over really well at Marissa’s work (Gresham Toyota) and was fairly easy to make from a box (since the car is so “boxy”…)

Commentary on Barry Bonds…

Regardless of what did or did not happen, what Bonds did or did not (knowingly or unknowingly) take, I found this guy’s shirt really, really funny.

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Yankees in Seattle

As many of you may know, I am a New York Yankees fan. This has been a bit of an unfortunate reality the past number of years for a variety of reasons (general hostility toward yankee fans, the team’s now perennial under performance, joe torre’s departure, etc.) and it appears this year will be the first in over a decade that they will not be playing in the postseason. Lame.

Thus, this last weekend, when we journeyed to Seattle to watch the Yanks play, with really very little to play for, it could have been a real let-down. And, for those of you who may have watched M’s starter Brandon Morrow carry a no-no into the 8th, you would understand my excitement at seeing a potential no-hitter, but also my dismay that it was MY TEAM who was getting no-hit…

All this to say, that despite the potentially disturbing realities of the trip, I still managed to have a really, really good time! I ate warm ball-park peanuts and spread the shells shamelessly around on the ground beneath my feet. I drank a vastly over-priced cup of crummy bud-light. I took pictures…

Here’s the family we went with: Marissa’s co-worker Katrina in the middle, with her husband and daughters.

Here’s the 1st pitch of the game from our fabulous seats (no zoom here, this is really exactly where we sat!)

And here’s Riss and I after the game (She really liked the little hand things the M’s gave out…)

All in all, it reminded me of how much I like safeco field. It doesn’t have a lot of character or history like Fenway or Yankee Stadium, but it really is a fabulous ballpark.

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