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[susandennis]

The 5 day forecast includes no temperatures above 75 degrees. This is good... well, better. I'm pretty much a 70 degree person. My preference is 70 degrees and cloudy. Or snow.

I don't understand why those baseball teams with weather dependancies don't advertise the likelihood of play. I guess they figure if you are likely to go to the game, you have a good idea of what the weather is going to be and so can guess the likelihood of a rainout.. But, hey, others care, too!

I'm a big reader. Always have been. When I was a tragic teenager, every winter I read Gone with the Wind. Every summer I read Désiré. I can count on one hand the number of times I have gone to sleep in my life without reading at least a chapter or two of something. On NPR this morning there was a piece about book clubs.

As much as I enjoy reading, book clubs have never appealed to me. Once I read a book, I'm done. I move on to the next one. I'm not interested in slicing and dicing it. Also I'm just not that much of a joiner of any kind and, honestly, outside of recommendations, I'm not that interested in what anyone else thinks of any particular book. Snotty, I know.

Last night I finished John Burdett's Bangkok 8. It was great. In the first chapter, the bad guy gets 'offed' by a car full of poisonous snakes while a phython squeezes him. Rather a vivid scene. I'm not a big snake person. Today I will start the one on the top of the ToBeReadNext pile. It was recommended to me by a guy who reads the book recommendations on my website and has sent me real jewels in the past.

But, first, we have to play the Yankees again today - unless it rains - in New York.

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[mindme.livejournal.com]

Yeah book clubs strike me as a little creepy. Like a lot of the people that would turn out might be the "well my interpretation of the books is the one y'all should pay attention to" types.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why those baseball teams with weather dependancies don't advertise the likelihood of play.

(1) Because they don't know, and (2) because they don't want to give anyone a reason to decide not to show up or not to turn on the TV. And they always hope they'll be able to play. Today in Boston, for example, there were a couple of heavy showers between noon and 1:30, and the forecasts I'd seen all talked about "chance of showers". However, the sun came out shortly before game time, and has been out continuously ever since. What should they have said?

(There are occasional exceptions, when the weather is obviously not going to cooperate; when I was in Philadelphia with the intention of seeing the Red Sox-Phillies game in June, they announced the cancellation of the game two hours before it was supposed to start.)

But, first, we have to play the Yankees again today - unless it rains - in New York.

Which, apparently. it did not. My thanks to the Mariners (and to the White Sox), despite making it all the more frustrating that the Red Sox couldn't take advantage.

Of course, my thanks don't extend to my rooting for the Mariners on either of the next two weekends.

[susandennis]

Of course, my thanks don't extend to my rooting for the Mariners on either of the next two weekends.

I'm shocked.