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Softball update

Well for those of you wondering, the Broken Lizards (yes that’s our name) won our first game of the season last night 18-4.
We played against the James Hardie crew and I think they may have had more fun than we did thanks to a pre-game “celebration.”
I believe we had three in the park home runs, a steal from third to home (while I was at bat) and numerous doubles and tripples.
I personally went 2 for 4 with a double and a single.
I fouled out on my second at bat and popped up past 2nd on my third at bat.
With the clock at zero and our team having two outs, I made a great slide at home, only to have the umpire call it out so he could let the home team bat and end the game.
My raw leg thanks him for the call today (hint of sarcasm there).
Our next game will be next Wednesday agains the Dirty Dogs at 9 p.m.
Then I get a few weeks off as I head to Nigeria.
My first game back will be on the 18th, when we face James Hardie again at 7 p.m.

The death of a newspaper

Dallasblog.com comments on the continuing saga of newspapers gone bad/dead:

Writing obituaries is a crummy entry-level job at a newspaper, and no matter the circumstance, a depressing one. So it gives me no pleasure to write one now:
Our Newspaper Is Dead.
Argue if you wish that this is a temporary period of “transition” — what with long-time employees being asked to exit the newsroom with a shoebox of money under their arms and their tails between their legs — but during such a troubling time, shouldn’t the Dallas Morning News still crank out something resembling a must-read major metropolitan daily? OK, guys, so you lied about circulation and you’ve misled a few advertisers and your ownership seems more interested in real estate than in journalism and much of the heart and soul of your staff has been amputated, but. …
Aren’t you neverthless requires to produce a paper that motivates me to care about it?

When church signs suck/stink

I know I know, some of you are still offended by the word suck so I gave you an aleternative in the title. Sorry if you are offended.
Anyways, on to the post.
ChurchMarketingsucksstinks.com has a great post on when church signs stink.
It’s a great list and I agree whole heartidly. There’s a church in my neck of the woods that constantly tries to be funny or confusing or something on their sign. Yet I don’t ever recall seeing an annoucement about what’s going on at the church and I don’t even remember seeing service times on the sign.

One of the first impressions that a church gives a passer-by is its church sign or marquee. In recent years, it has become chic for churches to quote presumably pithy sayings on these church signs. It is my assessment that most of these church signs “suck” (by CMS’ definition of the word), especially when taking the “Church Marketing” perspective.

Either way, read and enjoy the list.

Oh crap my feeds are gone

I just opened my RSS reader and all my blog feeds are gone. I don’t know what happened, but do you realize how crazy that’s going to make me today?
Guess I’m trashing this program now and going to use Google’s reader unless someone has a way better solution.
Now’s the time to get your feed back on my daily list. Leave them as a comment below.
In the long run I guess this could be a good thing, it may reduce some of the feeds I read everyday.

California to raise minimum wage

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Tuesday to give California one of the highest minimum wages in the nation.
The law gives more than 1.4 million people an increase of 75 cents an hour in January and an additional 50 cents the following year, boosting the rate from $6.75 an hour to $8.
With the new law, California joins Massachusetts as having the nation’s highest minimum wage.
Massachusetts also will boost its rate to $8 an hour by 2008 after lawmakers were able to override a veto this summer by Gov. Mitt Romney.
Looks like all those homes on the beach will start costing a whole lot more now.