Tina in my ear
May. 19th, 2022 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisMy "reading" is pretty much all audio these days. Every night, I sit on my bed and listen to my latest novel while I'm playing games on an old tablet.
But, once in a while, I find a non fiction book that sounds interesting. Especially if it's long and a library book, I listen lots. On the bus, while I'm crocheting, in the car. Such is the case with my latest = The Palace Papers. It's written by Tina Brown and read by Tina Brown so she's been in my ear a lot. To my American ear, a posh British accent evokes a feeling of grandeur and correctness and fancy. So here I have Tina all grand and correct and fancy filling my head with salacious gossip. It's like salted caramel - opposing flavors mixing oh so deliciously.
A tweet just sent me on a sentimental journey. There's a guy I do not know from Greensboro, NC who follows me on twitter. He just sent me a tweet about a baseball team who's having a caterday Saturday. Bring your cat to the ballpark. Bark in the Park is now a tried and true baseball game gimmick at nearly all the major league parks. But cats?
Leave it to the minor leagues for those kind of wonderful shenanigans. The one he tweeted about is in Winston-Salem - where I grew up. So I dug around. There is actually a quite lovely baseball park there now just down the street from where I went to high school. And they are home to TWO minor league teams - one MLB and one AAABA (All American Amateur Baseball Association). I think that's pretty cool. But, that's not all.
The Winston-Salem Dash is the high A (second run of the minor league ladder) affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. This is kind of a snoozer compared to the other baseball offering.
The team offering cat night is the AAABA team with the absolutely adorable name of Carolina Disco Turkeys!!!
It's been way more than 40 years since I was last in Winston-Salem and now, for the first time, I want to go back.What fun.
I had one of the new burritos with the funky sausage strips this morning and I think I like them. They certainly do improve the shape and rolling of the burritos but they also taste good and are very easy to work with. Thanks, Johnsonville!
There's a moving truck out in front of the building this morning so I checked to see if one of the two units that are for sale, sold. And yep. Pending. Hope they got their mortgage rate locked in or have cash.
I lost another giant bundle of my investments yesterday. I'm resigned to it all and, fortunately the percentage is still small-ish. But I do worry about my poor financial advisor whose other clients might not be as sanguine. He cannot be having good days.
I'll probably pop down to the Amazon hub this morning to drop off a couple of returns. Then I have a new episode of the Sewing Bee to watch, more Tina, the last episode of Lincoln Lawyer and a baseball game at 4. Buzeee
Biggie the Recliner Cat
But, once in a while, I find a non fiction book that sounds interesting. Especially if it's long and a library book, I listen lots. On the bus, while I'm crocheting, in the car. Such is the case with my latest = The Palace Papers. It's written by Tina Brown and read by Tina Brown so she's been in my ear a lot. To my American ear, a posh British accent evokes a feeling of grandeur and correctness and fancy. So here I have Tina all grand and correct and fancy filling my head with salacious gossip. It's like salted caramel - opposing flavors mixing oh so deliciously.
A tweet just sent me on a sentimental journey. There's a guy I do not know from Greensboro, NC who follows me on twitter. He just sent me a tweet about a baseball team who's having a caterday Saturday. Bring your cat to the ballpark. Bark in the Park is now a tried and true baseball game gimmick at nearly all the major league parks. But cats?
Leave it to the minor leagues for those kind of wonderful shenanigans. The one he tweeted about is in Winston-Salem - where I grew up. So I dug around. There is actually a quite lovely baseball park there now just down the street from where I went to high school. And they are home to TWO minor league teams - one MLB and one AAABA (All American Amateur Baseball Association). I think that's pretty cool. But, that's not all.
The Winston-Salem Dash is the high A (second run of the minor league ladder) affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. This is kind of a snoozer compared to the other baseball offering.
The team offering cat night is the AAABA team with the absolutely adorable name of Carolina Disco Turkeys!!!
It's been way more than 40 years since I was last in Winston-Salem and now, for the first time, I want to go back.What fun.
I had one of the new burritos with the funky sausage strips this morning and I think I like them. They certainly do improve the shape and rolling of the burritos but they also taste good and are very easy to work with. Thanks, Johnsonville!
There's a moving truck out in front of the building this morning so I checked to see if one of the two units that are for sale, sold. And yep. Pending. Hope they got their mortgage rate locked in or have cash.
I lost another giant bundle of my investments yesterday. I'm resigned to it all and, fortunately the percentage is still small-ish. But I do worry about my poor financial advisor whose other clients might not be as sanguine. He cannot be having good days.
I'll probably pop down to the Amazon hub this morning to drop off a couple of returns. Then I have a new episode of the Sewing Bee to watch, more Tina, the last episode of Lincoln Lawyer and a baseball game at 4. Buzeee
Biggie the Recliner Cat
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Date: 2022-05-19 10:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-05-20 12:59 am (UTC)That's an adorable picture of Biggie. :)
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Date: 2022-05-20 03:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-05-20 07:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-05-20 03:39 pm (UTC)I don't think cats would enjoy being brought to a ballpark. Think of what they go through just being put in a carrier. It's like Marie Antoinette in a tumbrel.
Thanks for the book rec. Always looking for new authors\books.