KRAD's Inaccurate Guide to Life

A day in the life of a Census lister/freelance writer:

9.15am: Hop on the bus (Gus) to facility that was closed yesterday for Yom Kippur.
9.30am: Conduct interview.
9.45am: Take bus to Starbucks to finish off paperwork on that interview, then work on Heart of the Dragon until...
11am: Meet with Crew Leader, hand in completed work, get new assignment.
11.15am: Attempt to do two interviews, but get no answer at either place.
11.45am: Head downtown for monthly lunch with infinitydog and Marco Palmieri. Work on HotD on the subway.
12.30pm: Arrive early for lunch, but bronxbob350 and helgabee are there having lunch, and hang with them for half an hour.
1pm: Have lunch with Dave and Marco.
2.30pm: Head to PO box and then to Pocket Books to pick up copy edits for Seven Deadly Sins.
3pm: Grab a soda in a deli and write a bit of HotD that occurred to me as I was walking up 5th Avenue.
3.15pm: Head back home, reading over copy edit on subway.
4pm: Attempt to do two interviews with more success this time, though the listing may be screwy on one of them. Attempt a third interview, but they need to check with their bosses first.
5pm: Go to Starbucks to do as much paperwork as possible and also call Crew Leader to fill her in. Stop along the way to vote in the primary runoff.
5.30pm: Come home, read (and reply to) various e-mails.
5.45pm: Nap.
6.30pm: Head to dojo for, in order, the annual "class photo," then kata class, then fighting class.
10pm: Head home from dojo after all that, and veg in front of TV while eating Japanese food.

And that was my day. Blorfle....

Sunday, prior to their game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners announcers -- among them former player Mike Blowers -- did their predictions for what would happen in the game. Blowers initially predicted that rookie Matt Tuiasosopo would hit his first major-league home run in the game.

Then he got silly about it. He said it would be in his second at-bat on a 3-1 fastball, which he'd deposit in the second deck of left-center field.

Sure enough, in Tuiasosopo's second at-bat, he worked a 3-1 count, and grooved a fastball over the wall in left-center field.

Didn't hit the second deck, though. *grin*

I first heard of this via terri_osborne on last night's Rachel Maddow Show (who cried, "You gotta see this!" and rewound her DVR), but Rob Neyer was kind enough to link to a blog that provided audio of both Blowers's prediction and the call of Tuiasosopo's home run.

Naturally, the prediction is already on Blowers's wikipedia page...............

You can't make this shit up. *laughs*

I am here at Giants Stadium for the first of the final Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band concerts at this place before it goes away. I'm with divanoir and suricattus. The latter bought the tickets, and her ticket-fu remains mighty, as these seats (you'll pardon the expression) rock. There are pictures on my Facebook page, and there may well be more as the night progresses....