Sports-Filled Weekend

     Caleb and I went to the Beggs game Friday night, because they were playing Haskell, and one of his Youth Tour pals is a Haskell cheerleader. They hung out for a bit, the game was close for the first quarter and then the Demons started clicking, while the Haymakers imploded. Final score Beggs 43, Haskell 8.
     It was weird, being at a Beggs game and not covering it or anything, but not bad. Just different. And a little chilly.

     The Red Sox and Dodgers were in Game 3 of the World Series when we got back, and I started watching in the eighth inning. It went to 18 innings and ended with a walk-off home run at 2:30 a.m. after seven hours and 20 minutes of baseball. Completely ridiculous, but worth watching.

     College football was on as background noise most of Saturday, and Dad and Trevor watched the OSU-Texas game, where the Cowboys won 38-35 on Homecoming. Derek Steeley and Cole were at the OU game, and the Coxes were in Fayetteville for the Arkansas game.
     Boston won Game 4 with five runs in the ninth inning.

     Dad and Trevor have had the TV turned to NFL football all day today, while I "watched" the NASCAR race at Martinsville through the online tracker and Twitter updates.

     Also read a lot of Neil Gaiman nonfiction and a sad-but-interesting novel called The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein.
     Isaac Asimov's Foundation was rather disappointing, as most early sci-fi is, though it was good to know where George Lucas picked up the idea for a city-planet and the name "Corellia," and where Joss Whedon got the idea for a scruffy pirate of dubious morals who distrusts religion (Mal Reynolds of Firefly, and come to think of it, Han Solo was probably inspired by Asimov's Linmar Ponyets).  

October

    This has been a strange month. It's also been a strange year, and the past several years, actually, have been rather odd and eventful.

     The Dodgers and the Red Sox are playing in the World Series. Caleb and I went to an Oilers game several weeks ago, we might go to a couple others this season.

     The weather's mostly been gray and wet, making it rather hard to get anything done. Still, produced a lot for Dog O'Day this month, and Bam Smack Pow articles have gotten a lot of pageviews this month. Thankful the NASCAR season is nearly finished - feels like everyone at Fronstretch is feeling that way.

     Rags got attacked the other night by Darcy and/or Smudge, so she's been hiding in my room the past couple days.

     Not going on the Arkansas hike this year, though Caleb is planning on it.