Dogs and swimming

[susandennis]

For the first few years after I retired, I had nearly nightly dreams about work. They were good dreams. In my work dreams, I did great things in great outfits and had really excellent business relationships. Every night. It was kind of fun.

Lately my dreams have been about swimming. Every night I get to swim someplace new. Some nights, however, it's frustrating. Like last night. There was this great pool that was kind of shaped like a lake with lots of interesting things to see while you swim but it was so crowded. Not crowded with swimmers but with people just standing around. Finally everyone left and I could just swim and swim and swim. It was wonderful. I'm fine with swim dreams.

I'm not as fine with the universe sending me dog prompts. A woman who is a comedy writer and comedian but who I only know from podcasts and Instagram, just got a dog. She Instagrammed about getting the dog and choosing the dog and yesterday getting the dog and she's making me want a damn dog. Parallel-ly, the Seattle Humane Society, which would be my first stop if I were going to get a dog, is getting a brand new state of the art home. I'd love to go see it, but dogs. What if I accidentally got one? Zoey is a very needy cat and that drives me nuts. WTF am I going to do with a dog? And I live on the 4th floor downtown. So dog walking what, 4/5 times a day - early morning, late at night? Nuts. Why do I even think about this?

Moving on... Two baseball games today.

When I lived in Charlotte, NC, I was a season ticket holder for the AA team who's stadium was a wonderful old neighborhood wooden ballpark about a mile from my house. They put on a show for every game. There was used car night - where they actually gave away a car. Grocery night - where they give away lots of groceries. Max Patkin, the baseball clown and one night we even had the San Diego Chicken (BFD in those days). And a double header was the very best in both baseball and fun.

These days double headers are far less common. I don't think there's even been one on the MLB schedule for years. They do happen sometimes when a game is rained out. That's today's situation. Yesterday's Kansas City/Seattle game was rained out to today they are playing 2.

I was just distracted by the Mariners scoring 3 runs in the first half of the first inning of the first game. Hope they aren't shooting their wad too early here.

It's hot and smoky again today. I can feel the smoke now when I am out. It's not horrible but it's enough to remind me to get back inside pronto which is not a bad thing. The extended forecast says that hot til Thursday and then Summer starts to wind down. I get that anything past the next 10 days is fiction but when that 'fiction' says the high's will be in the 70's and going down day by day, I'll take that fiction, thank you.

There will be knitting today for sure and maybe some sewing. I keep looking at the bunny from the other day and seeing how morphing into a kitty is totally doable.

Comments

[roasted-beets.livejournal.com]

Don't get a dog. (and you may have realized I'm all about my dog)

They have to go out in rain and heat and smoke.

[susandennis]

Right, right. Good thots. No dog. No dog.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

And if you find resistance difficult, just imagine this dialogue:

Susan: I'm thinking of maybe getting a dog.
Zoey: No fucking way!
Susan: Oh, OK.

[susandennis]

Now, see, that's the kind of dis-encouragement I need. And you are so right. She's not even interested in another cat. I cannot imagine the wrath if I brought a dog home.

[terri gordon (from livejournal.com)]

If you get a small dog, you can actually train it to use a litter box much like a cat. One of my past supervisors had a Peke, or something that size...and it went in a litter box when she or her husband wasn't available to let it out.

[susandennis]

ack!! Don't tell me that. I need the reasons NOT to get a dog.

I can't see Zoey sharing her litter box. But, I could get the dog his/her own... ack!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

These days double headers are far less common. I don't think there's even been one on the MLB schedule for years.

The main original reason for scheduled double-headers was the necessity of taking just about every Monday and Thursday off for travel because it took a day to get from one city to another by train. That stopped being an issue some time ago.

[susandennis]

Oh, interesting. I never considered that. Wow. And good thing. It was really exhausting to watch two games. I cannot imagine what it was like to play them. And the laundry!

Here's one for you... How in the heck, to they get a guy's name/number on his jersey in less than 8 hours and... on the road???

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm pretty sure the clubhouse staff travels with the team, and they probably hear about the trades before we do. Still, it must be a scramble some of the time.

I would imagine it's especially fun when Jarrod Saltalamacchia gets traded. (As far as I know, he still holds the MLB record for length of surname, at 14. Back when he was playing for the Red Sox, they had an outfielder in the minors named Seth Schwindenhammer [15], and I kept hoping that they would end up on the major league team at the same time. Didn't happen; Salty got traded, and Seth never made it to the majors.)

[susandennis]

But the equipment needed to make the appliques alone is not at all trivial and the materials. Of course, maybe they use the home team's stuff but still.

My favorite name this year is in our bull pen - doesn't compete for longest but still very cool - Rzepczynski (11) - probably takes way more than twice as long to do since the doer must be checking for typos every half second.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I remember wishing, some 10-15 years ago, that Doug Mientkievicz and Mark Grudzielanik would end up on the same team. (There was another name along those lines at the same time, but I can't remember it at the moment.) (And yes, I had to Google those names to make sure I spelled them right.)

[susandennis]

:)

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should get another cat instead