Monthly Archives: October 2004

Astros Win, Tiburon Loses

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Today was a good day for baseball and a horrible day for softball. The Astros defeated the Braves in the first game of the National League Division Series 9-3. Roger Clemens pitched a great game with seven strike outs in seven innings pitched.

Tonight was our third loss at softball as we were crushed 16-2. I went 2-3 fielding. I bobbled one ball hit my way, but two others ending with outs. I also went 1-2 batting. The other team had a huge inning where they scored 14 runs. We weren’t really doing anything wrong, they were just laying down good hits.

Mattress With a Little Less Soft, Please

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This morning we were called by our neighbor, Jane, Lucas and Connor’s mom. Her air conditioning had leaked all over her floor just like ours did. The thing is she had just had it serviced when she moved in a few months ago, so it seems weird that it would be the same thing as what was wrong with ours.

Today the Original Mattress Company came and picked up our king sized bed in order to make it not as soft. We were having problems with our mattress where it was continuously making body impressions into the mattress even though we were flipping it every other week. Finally the handle broke on the side of the mattress and we called them in to fix it. After Jennifer complained that we were having to flip it so often because of the body impressions, they informed us that they have a year “comfort guarantee”. So, they picked up the mattress today and will return it on Thursday with a little less padding.

Today’s picture is of “Emily the Explorer” as she has been attacked by rings that have attached themselves to her arms. Hopefully she will be able to find the ring extractor from her handy dandy backpack.

Trying to Get Rid of Some Paint

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I spent Sunday driving around trying to find a place to dump the paint that was left in our garage by the previous owners of our house. I checked the Seminole County web site to find out where I could drop off the paint and they said a transfer station, which was closer into town, wasn’t open on Sunday and the only place to drop it off was the county dump. So, I drove 45 minutes out to the dump. I was driving out in areas that look like they were hit pretty hard by the last hurricane. I saw a few house boats which were capsized or half way in the water. Anyway, once I got there they told me they were not taking paint because their recycle center was damaged by one of the hurricanes. However, they said that the transfer station was open today. Great. I drove 45 minutes out of my way, when I could have driven 10 minutes to the transfer station. The good news is that the paint is gone.

Today’s picture is of Emily trying to floss her teeth.

Making Room for the Sequoia

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The Texas Longhorns defeated the Baylor Bears 44-14 today.  They are looking pretty good, but it’s hard to say against such weak opponents. We are only one week away from the true test: #2 Oklahoma.

We spent the afternoon cleaning out the garage to make a little more room for the new Sequoia. The last owners of our house left a ton of paint in the garage. We went through them and loaded the ones we want to throw away into my truck. I’m going to take them to the dump tomorrow.

Tonight we watched Ocean’s Eleven. It was pretty good. It has some slow parts in the middle, but seeing the plan all come together at the end of the movie was cool.

Borie

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Tonight Jennifer went to a scrapbooking party with some of the women from church, leaving me with the kids. Once she was gone, Emily sat down and watched TV while Abby and I kick around this little toy soccer ball. Once Emily went to bed, Abby and I went upstairs and she watched me play a new game I got the other day Sly 2.

I’m currently watching the Dodgers and Giants play baseball. I was surprised the other day when I saw that the Astros were suddenly in the lead of the National League Wild Card race. The Giants and Astros are tied for the wild card spot and the Astros won today so if the Giants lose, the Astros will be the sole owners of the wild card spot with two games left to play.

Today’s picture is of Emily with a Dora backpack. Emily has become obsessed with watching Dora the Explorer. This is amazing because Abby didn’t really start liking that show until she was around three years old. She doesn’t quite know how to say “Dora” yet, so she says something more like “Borie” when she sees Dora on the TV or when she dances to the theme song.