Misc with a capital M and in no order

* All of a sudden this morning, Biggie hates pill pockets. Great.

* A short series of links took me to this fairly short video that explained to me this venn diagram which as a clearly stupid American contains a lot of info I was previously clueless about. I've been using the wrong terms and identifiers for years. Sorry to all of you who drive on the wrong side of the road.



* At Friday night's baseball game, the video guy found this kid, maybe 10/11, who was doing a wild rally dance in the stand. A cute, awkward kid who was clearly having the time of his life. Even though the Mariners had been losing the whole game. And then the bases were loaded and he went into overdrive. And then we hit a home run. And our pitcher, on twitter, dubbed the kid "Rally Kid" and he went viral. After the game, the players and manager got his attention and called him down and gave him a bunch of stuff. The Mariners then invited him to last night's game and gave his family of four Diamond Club seats. They all clearly were having the best time last night. The Mariners presented the kid with his own Mariners jersey that had Rally Kid on the back. It was just so classy and so much fun to watch.



* And it was bucket hat night. And these hats are way higher quality than their usual swag. I took a selfy.



* I am fascinated by how old I am. My skin is very wrinkly (thank god for being fat or it would be Shar Pei worthy). I am getting better at getting to a standing position from my stadium seat. But last night, I was coming back into the stand from getting a drink and I paused because there was a batter batting and it's only polite but one of the ushers (who was clearly in her 50's) looked at me and said "do you need hep?" I'm find with the oldness. I'm just fascinated by it. I wonder how my grandmother and mother felt when they got into their 70's.

* My brother's plane is more than an hour late. He's in Chicago at a bar watching tennis. He was supposed to land here in Seattle at 1:05. BUT my old brain, had read that as 1:50. So I'd have been right here waiting to go to the airport when he landed. So, thanks, Southwest, for the save.

* I have tried and tried to make cheap bluetooth earbuds work for me. Unsuccessfully. Google finally made some that are $100. So I bought them. They have a lot of very amazing features. But, they cut in and out on phone calls - not helpful and when listening to stuff. Plus, while they stay in my ears securely, they hurt like hell after about 10 mins. They go back to Google tomorrow and the hunt resumes.

* The crowds at the ballgames have been increasing and last night it was pretty nearly pre pandemic average night size. Also, on the street from here to there, there and home, I saw maybe 5 people with masks on. And 3 of those were kids. But, most kids were not wearing them.

* So far, no birds inside today but it's not yet 10 and he's out there on the hunt so I have my breadbag ready.

* Oh! bill_schubert is on the plane in Chicago set to take off in 15 mins! Yeah! Probably time for me to get showered and dressed and ready.

He's here and the light bulb has been changed...

The airport was packed - at least the arrivals deck, but I got him. And I'm not turning him back in for one week and one day.

Biggie has been inside pretty much since he got here which is pretty unusual for him lately. But his outside terrace world is going to be all torn up tomorrow morning as the changes begin. I have no idea what he's going to think.

Oh and Bill said he gives his dogs pills wrapped up in American cheese. I know for a fact that Biggie has never had American cheese but he does love butter. So I got out a slice and rolled up a couple of little balls and he gobbled 'em right up. This could be our pill answer. We'll try it tomorrow.

Bill and I went to a neighborhood place for dinner. It's been here for about four years and even before the pandemic they did all kinds of pivots to find their niche. I'm not sure they are there yet. It was ok. But they have no air conditioning and they are on the east side of the street getting all the afternoon sun so ugh. But we managed a little shade and a little breeze and it wasn't horrible by any stretch.

We are home and Bill, who got up at 4:30 his time has gone to bed. I'm not that far behind him. It's early but we're old. And the trash hauling people will be here at 9.