The family went on a drive through the country today. The country is pretty much a 10 mile stretch of backroad that takes you from Cypress to Tomball. Cypress and Tomball were at one time, I imagine, separate little towns. Now, for all practical purposes, they're just the northwest side of Houston. But anyway, country drive... We come around into Tomball on Hwy.249 and see a Goodwill store, so hell yeah we're gonna stop. This is one rockin' ass Goodwill. We found a telescope for 5 bux. I think it's missing a lens and some other pieces, but at $5 it's a steal. The telescope actually would have been useful tonite because you were supposed to be able to see the Hubble telescope and the ISS pass over Houston tonite, but it was cloudy as hell so we didn't see shit.
I also got a book entitled
Baseball Hacks that details putting statistics into a database to gain better insight into player performance and trends that may or may not be present. Its all part of a lovely thing called
Sabermetrics.
That reminds me, the Winter Meetings started today. I read an article that said Tejada & Wigginton were drawing alot of intrest from the Twins. The Twins have alot of good arms down on the farm. But that'd kill our infield.
Another book I found was Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cien años de soledad, which I've read the english version of (and it was EXCELLENT.) But since my brother is an english teacher and it's one of his favorite books I'll probably give it to him as part of a Christmas gift. I hope he doesn't read this shit. That would spoil the surprise.
We also picked up a brass thing my mom will like and we got my son a little wooden puzzle. Nice shopping trip.
To make the day even better I get a call from a guy at my exjob and he says he has a check for me. Excellent. It was only $277 but thats better than a kick in the ass. I go piss test/physical for my new job tomorrow. Hoping to be on the payroll by next week, I am.
The new Scott Weiland solo album is pretty good. Check it out. Or if you want it I could probably provide a link to it. probably.
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