Moonlit Jazz

Opening Night for the A’s: A’s over the Mariners, 5-0. 😀 Fantastic game! Twas DAMN COLD!!! But it was a great game. Erubiel Durazo had all five RBIs in his A’s debut. Good for him! Hudson pitched 8 strong innings. And Mark Ellis made some awesome plays at second base.

Fun stuff: Bret Boone was introduced as “Bert Boone”… Starting pitcher Tim Hudson was almost unannounced! “Please direct your attention to centerfield…” Oops! LOL… One of the young ladies behind us was a Seattle fan. Can I just please go to a game where I’m sitting amongst fellow A’s fans? Oh, but she and her friend agreed that Eric Chavez was “hot.” 😛

I must confess, we left after six innings and headed out to Harry’s in San Leandro. It was just too cold and we didn’t have our good jackets on. I know, TERRIBLE! What kind of freakin’ A’s fan am I? 😛 But we did get to watch the end of the game at Harry’s. I had chili in the sourdough bowl. Yummy! 🙂

Well, the publishing part of my weblog isn’t working. ALAS! But I can still post, apparently. 😉

Today is Opening Night for the A’s. Woohoo! Let us hope it doesn’t rain come game time. Our seats are NOT under the overhang. 😛

Saturday: A’s 4, Giants 8 😛
Sunday: A’s 12, Rivercats 1… Poor Rivercats! Ahh well…

I’m on the 3rd day of my 4 day weekend. I must say, tis lovely having a long weekend. 😀

Let’s see, I’ve been doing screencaptures with my new WinTV USB videocapturing device. It took much too long to get it to work, but it finally does! Except I don’t get sound. Alas. I suppose it’s a good thing I’m only looking for good screencaps. And they’ve turned out all right. I have to fiddle with each and everyone in another photo editing program, but such is life. I’ve done screencaps of “The Life” episode featuring Mark Mulder, the Arliss ep “End Game” with Barry Zito, Xena episodes “The Heart of Darkness” and “The Abyss,” the JAG ep “Enemy Below,” and a very few from a BH90210 ep. I ended up with 180 screencaps from “The Life.” Yikes! Now it’s weird looking at all the screencaps of Mark Mulder. Ye gods! Oh, but I did get some of his teammates, so it’s not all Mark. Just mostly! LOL!

While I was doing screencaps, I was recording various things onto DVDs. I’ve got Saturday’s game between the A’s and Giants, the Pepsi All Star Softball Game, the special on the A’s Streak, and I would have done more, but I got worn out doing all of that. LOL!

On the final game of the Cactus League, the A’s rallied to beat the Brewers, 7-4. Woohoo! 😀

THE FRIDAY FIVE

Rather thought-provoking questions this week. Hmm…

1. What was your most memorable moment from the last week?
Having our first visitors to the house last weekend…

2. What one person touched your life this week?
My hubby always touches my life, so I will say him. 😀

3. How have you helped someone this week?
I did my job.

4. What one thing do you need to get done by this time next week?
Get my passport!

5. What one thing will you do over the next seven days to make your world a better place?
I’ll savor my four day weekend and immerse myself in baseball. 😉

FIVE DAYS, 20 HOURS… A’s 6, Diamondbacks 4 🙂

I can’t believe I just did that. I had written something here, then closed the window without posting it. Grrrrrr!!!!

A’s 25, Mariners 10… Sounds like a football score…

My friend is online. 😉

A couple of weeks ago, we drove by Festival Cinemas in Hayward. Twas strange seeing the parking lot completely empty and building dark. It’s a shell of its former self and it still makes me sad. I have so many wonderful memories of that place. It’s an utter shame that the theatre has closed its doors forever…

I am so ready for baseball season to start. 7 days and 23 hours! Oh wait, this time next week, I’ll be on the 4th day of my 4 day weekend (yeehaw!). I love the anticipation. What will this season hold for my boys? So much hope, so much promise. I’m going to be keeping track of each day’s score here in my weblog. Can I do it two years in a row? I think I can. Well, except when I’m in Cancun (hopefully we’re still going!). Then again, if I have internet access, you just might read posts from the Mexico. 😉

It’s Tuesday, which means when I come home tonight and turn on my IM program, I just might see my friend online. 😀