Hey

today was a pretty good day.

The Mariners lost, and the Yankees completed a sweep of the Boston Red Sox putting them in a 1 game lead for the Wild Card.

With the sweep of the Sox, the Yankees are now only 5 games back. Not too shabby. I loved this quote I read by Derek Jeter though, it really fits. “We need wins. I’d tell you the same thing if we just beat a high-school team three games in a row,” said Derek Jeter, who went 4-for-4. “Now we have to play well against Tampa. Otherwise these games don’t mean anything.”

Play on!

It has been pretty warm here- in the high 80’s but that is expected to drop into the low 70s in a day or so. Tomorrow I get to go visit my brother and sister in law. It’ll be good as I haven’t seen them in a while.

I had to update with all that Yankee news — just makes me happy.

Cascade has been in session for almost a week and I haven’t stopped by. I admit I thought I would have been visiting often and it seems a little odd that I haven’t. I’ve had my urges, but those are usually stopped by the fact that I lack a car.. Last year I think I visited to a point where it was natural, taken for granted and I suppose when I do get a car, I don’t want that to happen. Anywho…

Poem I read from one of my friends.. I think its great so I thought I would share.

Ode to Arizona

The Devil wanted a place on earth.
Sort of a summer home:
A place to spend his vacation
Whenever he wanted to roam.

So he picked out Arizona.
A place both wretched and rough.
Here the climate was to his liking
And the cowboys were hardened and tough.

He dried up the streams in the canyons
and ordered no rain to fall:
He dried up the lakes in the valleys,
Then baked and scorched it all.

Then over his barren desert
He transplanted shrubs from Hell.
The cactus, thistle and prickly pear —
The climate suited them well.

Now, the home was much to his liking.
But animal life, he had none:
So he created crawling creatures
That all mankind would shun.

First he made the rattlesnake.
With its forked poisonous tongue:
Taught it to strike and rattle
And how to swallow its young.

Then he made Scorpions and Lizards
And the ugly old Horned Toad.
He placed spiders of every description
Under rocks by the side of the road.

Then he ordered the sun to shine hotter.
Hotter and hotter still.
Until even the cactus wilted
And the old Horned Toad looked ill.

Then he gazed on his earthly kingdom.
As any creator would:
He chuckled a little up his sleeve
And admitted that it was good.

‘Twas summer now and Satan lay
By a prickly pear to rest.
The sweat rolled off his wearthy brow.
So he took off his coat and vest.

“By Golly,” he finally panted
“I did my job too well.
I’m going back where I came from
Arizona is hotter than Hell!”

Oh com’on you know you love it. Well… I do.

And the quote for the day….

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.” – Sir Richard Francis Burton

just Pray