Thoughts on the Day (7/19):

Today is:

Stick Out Your Tongue Day
Major league baseball's first triple play happened on this day in 1909.
Flight Attendant Safety Professionals Day
New Friends Day

I like baseball. I love watching baseball games. The ballpark, the sun, the crowd... it's just fun.

I love the strategy that goes into baseball. Playing them short or long. Does the hitter pull to the right or the left? I love the fact that the catcher is such an important player, even though he doesn't get much recognition.

What I really like about baseball, though, is the fact that you can write down the entire game on the score card. And when you look at that score card, you can see the entire game. Every hit, every strike out, every error, everything about it. In your hand or in one binder, you can hold an entire baseball season in your hand. It's there, to relive any time you want.

Baseball has a certain neatness about it, but yet it's totally unpredictable. And, like most things in life, you get out of it what you bring into it.


Oh. And a totally unrelated point: I can't stick my tongue out, I'm almost tongue-tied.

Thoughts on the Day (7/20):

Today is:

Ride (your motorcycle) to Work Day
Moon Day (Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon in 1969)
Chess Day
Ice Cream Soda Day
Ugly Truck Contest Day
National Lollipop Day
Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day
National Nap Day
National Tapioca Pudding Day

I was four in 1969, but I remember watching the moonlanding. We sat in my grandparents livingroom (a place where we were rarely allowed to go) and watched it on their big black and white TV. I can see it all so clearly. It was wonderful. I thank my parents and grandparents for being interested in it and for sharing that interest with me.

The University of Wisconsin's Food Science department has a whole course on ice cream making where the students have to come up with their own flavors. They sell the ice cream at Babcock Hall, or you can buy it online here or here.