Mattazuma's Revenge

At the Sox - Dodgers Game 6/25

I went to the White Sox vs. Dodgers game today at the Cell.  It was a beautiful day, sunny & in the mid 80s.  The White Sox pulled the game out in the 13th inning.  I brought the nice camera and took a couple of pretty good pictures, if I say so myself. Click on the pictures for somewhat bigger versions.

 

Here's Scott Posednik getting thrown out while trying to steal second.  I guessed right that he was going to try to steal.

 

Here's Jermaine Dye bringing back a HR. 

 

Here's Juan Pierre trying not to get picked off 1st base.

 

Konerko got him!

 

Joe Torre wasn't happy Pierre was called out.

Like I said at the top, the game went 13 innings and 4:30 to finish. Some people didn't quite make it through the whole game:

The $99 iPhone Question

So, I've heard from a number of "tech pundits" that Apple cutting the price of the iPhone 3G to $99 allows for a new group of consumers to buy the phone who could not previously afford it.

That doesn't make any sense to me.  I have an iphone 3G, and the initial cost ($299) wasn't that horrible. What is horrible is what AT&T charges per month.  Before taxes, I'm shelling out $75.  After taxes it is over $90 (thanks Cook County!).

How many people cannot afford to shell out $199 for a phone but can afford a $90 a month phone bill? Not very many I bet.

I'm Still Here

Well, I haven't posted in a while.  It's been an interesting (not good interesting) couple of months.  I can't talk about most of it, unfortunately.  To put it concisely, when I started my current job I was told I couldn't talk about work online.

The rest of this post rambles a little.  I'm a little out of practice.

I've been averaging about a baseball game a week so far this season.  It turns out you can get a little burned out after a while. I went to the Cubs game yesterday (6/21) and I had a pretty good time, but I wasn't into the game like I usually am.  Jonnell had to yell at me a few times to stop playing with the iphone.  I am going to the White Sox - Dodgers game on Thursday and I'm bringing my camera with to warm up for our vacation next week.

Speaking of the vacation, I really can't wait to get out of town for a while.  Much to my surprise, Jonnell has figured out how to turn a trip to Texas Hill Country into a wine tasting trip.  I am a little skeptical, but since I am dragging her to two baseball games I can try some Texas wine. There was an interesting story about Texas wineries in yesterday's Tribune.

My other goal is to eat either barbeque or chicken fried steak on every day of the trip.  And never go to the same place more than once.  I haven't had a 'real' CFS in a long time. Back when my parents lived in Houston, we went out to eat somewhere and I ordered the 'king sized' CFS.  It was great but I think I had enough leftovers for two days of lunches.

I'm really looking forward to checking out some small towns on the trip.  I think it's because I live downtown. Need to spend some time where there are a lot less people.  Looking forward to driving everywhere, too.  Taking public transit gets old, I took six buses and two El trains this weekend. I was on all of those trains and buses for around 15 miles of travel, which took over an hour of time, not counting the 45 minutes or so of waiting for them.

Be back soon with my review of the new movie Moon. Don't watch the trailer - too many spoilers!