Moonlit Jazz

“Bedroom Toys” by Duran Duran
World Series – St. Louis 9, Boston 11 at Fenway Park

The only good thing about Boston winning is that Keith Foulke got the win. I still like him, even though he’s on the Red Sox. 😛 Otherwise, bah on the Cardinals! They kept chipping away but came up short. Oh well.

Goodbye my wonderful Blackberry…

I woke up today and checked the time on my Blackberry and noticed that the battery was showing dangerously low even though it was plugged to the charger. The USB in the phone was busted. Alas!

I was on my way to a new phone (I thought I’d stick to Nextel and get their one and only camera phone) but after talking it over with the hubby, we decided that switching providers would be more cost effective.

Now I’ve got a small camera phone! The Motorola V505 (exclusive to AT&T) is a lovely little piece of technology. We had checked out every camera phone at the store and this one took the best pictures. I also liked the Samsung phone. Nice and light. But I’ve always liked Motorola phones, so the V505 was the choice.

I’m going to have fun moblogging now. So exciting! 😀 I can send pictures to my Buzznet from the phone. So cool!

Bridesmaid dress…

I tried on my newly altered bridesmaid dress and it didn’t fit right! Ye gods. The straps don’t hold the dress up like they should. And I think they’re supposed to criss cross in the back. I have to meet with the seamstress on Monday. ::sigh::

Rain falling in the night…

It smells like burning wood outside. Rain is falling…

First off, CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS!!!

Isringhausen throwing the last pitch, the celebration in full swing, the old guys looking on, Edmonds racing in to celebrate with his team…

Twas most groovy! The Houston Astros made it a great series with the Cardinals and kudos to them. But my hat goes to the Cards. Besides, I’ve liked Izzy since his turn with the A’s. 😉 And LaRussa was the manager of the A’s when I started watching baseball, so I was definitely cheering for him.

And more shots of the celebration…

I must say that last night’s game between the Red Sox and Yankees was super sweet. It was GREAT watching the Red Sox win. A great series there too.

But my cheers will now go to the St. Louis Cardinals. DO IT IN FOUR! We have a wedding next week and don’t want to miss a game!!! LOL!

Some Ryan Gosling fans are just…

… irritating!!!

I received the following email today from “concerned Ryan Gosling fan”–

subject: ryan gosling is hott

hey, im guessing you’re a ryan gosling fan…umm,i’ve been to your website
and i think that you’re waaay too negative when it comes to saying stuff on
the page.
i’m not trying to be mean, but i’m just pointing out a fact that everyone i
know has thought when they go on your page.
oh, and by the way, your photo page sucks. although ryan is one of the
hottest actors (EVER ALIVE!) you only displayed 3 pictures of him? what’s
with that??? you can use more pictures.
and also, since your pictures weren’t taken by you, and instead you
downloaded them without permission, i will be reporting you…
-concerned Ryan Gosling fan

I replied:

Hi there concerned Ryan Gosling fan –

Thanks for visiting my website and thank you for taking the time to write.

I’m not exactly sure where I’ve been negative on my website. I
haven’t really gotten any emails about that, but I’d appreciate it if
you could point out where you mean?

The images page leads to links with pages of Ryan in various roles.
If you scroll down a bit, you’ll see the links. There are many other
Ryan fansites that feature images of him (updated and all), so I leave
it to them to show those off. My site started several years ago and
has really just become more of a tribute rather than a frequently
updated site.

As for the pictures not taken by me, which ones were you referring to?
I’ve done my best to credit the appropriate people regarding the
copyrighted photos and the conventions pictures are either mine or
belong to friends/acquaintances. The screencaptures belong to their
respective productions (as noted).

Sorry if you didn’t like certain parts of the website.

Once again, thanks for writing.

Best always,
(Ohhh) Ryan… website owner

I was annoyed by a lot of what the person wrote. I know, I shouldn’t care what people write to me about my Ryan fansite, but the very last part of the email concerned me. First off, what pictures does this person think I’ve downloaded that aren’t mine? And second, report me to who?

I like the “i’m not trying to be mean but” that later turns into “your photo page sucks.” Hullo, if you don’t like my website, why visit? And if you think you can do better, then do it!

I think I was diplomatic in my response, though I’m sure the person didn’t deserve a response from me. I felt like venting about it, so there it is. Venting can be fun!

If you spell hot as “hott” does that make it hotter?

And here’s what I really wanted to say:

Hey, thanks for writing. But has anyone ever said these words to you: “If you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all.”

And throwing that little saying aside, let me just say– SCREW YOU. If you don’t like my website, you’re more than welcome to click AWAY from it. Want more pictures of Ryan? Check out the other sites that have suddenly cropped up. They’ve got newer and better pics than the ones I have.

One more thing, I think you’ve missed the spirit of my little dedication to Ryan. I put the website up to share my admiration for Ryan in my own way. I do not answer to anyone but myself. I do my best to respect him and his fans, but messages like yours make me want to give in and just take the site down.

Too bad if you think I don’t have enough pictures and too bad if you think I’m somehow negative on my site. Think you can do better? Be my guest.

Thanks for writing. Now crawl back into your hole.

See, I would never write anything like that to anyone. It would be just too cruel and rude. I wonder if people ever realize what they’re doing when they write stupid shit like some of the stuff I get.

Anyway, enough of that! I need to catch up on some emails!

I can’t believe I’m excited about baseball in October and *my* boys aren’t in it. I think it helps that the hubby’s team (the St. Louis Cardinals) are in it.

The Cards won today to force game seven in the NLCS. Twas an extra inning affair filled with frustration and excitement. Glorious!

And right now the Red Sox are leading the Yankees 6-0 in their game seven. It’s been a crazy series! Exciting! Which ever team you love or hate, the games have been riveting…

I’m writing from my Ogo while the game is on. Fun stuff. 😉 Hopefully this posts all right…

VOTE for the Oakland Zoo to win $25,000!!!

The weather was weird and freaky while we were on our way home. A huge dark cloud just hung in the sky, fringed by lighter clouds holding the light of the setting sun. Twas creepy cool…

Baseball…

So ye gods, those freakin’ Red Sox! I must really really love baseball to watch the Yankees and Red Sox play and to FEEL anything through the course of the game. It helped that Keith Foulke was on the mound in the ninth and saved the game. And really, did anyone give the Red Sox a chance when they were down 3-0 in the series? Makes a great story for sure.

Of course, the sucky sucky thing is that tomorrow the St. Louis/Houston game will be the early game and we won’t get to watch it in HD. We were already cheated out of watching last night’s game in HD because the aforementioned Red Sox/Yankees decided to go to extra innings into almost the wee hours of the morning. I think we barely got one inning of St. Louis/Houston in HD. Unfair!

Ah well.

I can’t believe I’m still talking about baseball and my A’s aren’t in it. 😛

VOTE for the Oakland Zoo to win $25,000!!!

Baseball…

The Red Sox need to just win this game so that we can finally watch the Cardinals game in HD. Ye gods! The Red Sox and Yankees are tied in the bottom of the 13th at 4 a piece. The Cardinals and Astros are scoreless in the bottom of the 6th.

Haps on Friday: Good food, BAD SERVICE…

We had dinner at a restaurant called Haps in Pleasanton on Friday night. I had the filet mignon and I will say that it was tasty. But why did it take almost two hours for us to get our food?

Granted, we were a party of six. And yes, some of us had appetizers and soup. But that does not excuse the fact that after the last morsel of soup was sipped, it took about FIFTY minutes for us to get our entrees. And THEN, one of the entrees was not cooked correctly (he wanted black and blue and it wasn’t). A manager came over to apologize and offer another entree, but it was not taken. When the waitress finally gave us our check (she started to avoid our table), she did not even apologize for what happened. She acted like all was well.

Haps is a fancy steakhouse type restaurant with higher prices to match. But apparently the higher prices do no include better service. It was DISAPPOINTING. We probably won’t be going there again anytime soon…

Weird dreams…

I keep dreaming about my old workplace. It’s so strange! I had another one last night. It’s rather disturbing. LOL!

Gadget girl…

Have I mentioned how much I love my tech toys? I LOVE MY TECH TOYS! The latest piece of technology recently acquired: the Ogo. It’s a text messaging, emailing, instant messaging device and it’s so CUTE! I like the whole email thing best, though the IMing is pretty cool too. I’ve already chatted on it with one of my online friends. 😀

Back to baseball…

THE RED SOX WIN!!! The bottom of the 14th and it’s over. WOW.

VOTE for the Oakland Zoo to win $25,000!!!

It’s so good to be back home. I’m working on the pictures from our long weekend in Las Vegas. Here are some of the highlights…

Views of Las Vegas… from the air, the Eiffel Tower replica, the Stratosphere, the calm water in front of the Bellagio…

From Friday’s wanderings… Fremont Street, The Enterprise at Star Trek the Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton, Zax in the Golden Nugget, my Borg bear (“Resistance is futile!”)

Wedding pictures… the bride and groom, their favors, the cake, the bride and groom caked…

The reception…

And have I mentioned how happy I am that we’re home? It felt so good sleeping in our own bed! 😀

VOTE for the Oakland Zoo to win $25,000!!!– I think I’ll keep posting this link until the contest is over. Must be supportive!!! 😉

We’re housesitting this week. I miss my bed and my pillows and my couch and my computer. I want to work on my pictures from Las Vegas. The good thing about housesitting here is that we’re MUCH closer to work. Commute is under an hour and that is an extra special good thing.

GO CARDINALS!!! Yes, I’m cheering for the Cardinals. I certainly don’t want the Astros to go to the World Series. Heck no! As for the American League, I just hope Boston makes it interesting at some point. Where is the life in that team? Geez.

Jensen Ackles is on Smallville and he’s playing a high school football coach! I caught a glimpse this evening and when Clark (Tom Welling) called Jensen “coach,” I started laughing. Why? Because Jensen is YOUNGER than Tom and yet he’s playing a character older than Clark. Ah well. I should watch that show more often. Tom Welling, Jensen Ackles. Enough said. LOL!