My little dog won’t sit still and I’m pondering the question of why I can’t get going on my story. It’s playing itself out in my head, but when I try and write it, the words flee. Or they feel forced. Alas!

The answer to a question recently asked: LIFE. Sometimes I’d like to just sit in front of the computer and revamp all my sites or check out my A’s or do screencaptures or answer emails or lookup my favorite fellows or check out the sites of my friends or make cards with my website info on them or fiddle with pictures or write in my blog. And I do all of these things, but LIFE draws me away and I do all of the aforementioned in shifts.

I wish I could say that I’m sorry that life gets in the way, but you know what, I like that it does. It means I’m alive, right?

Sometimes I just want to veg out in front of the computer. These days I seem to spend a lot of time reading about the A’s, which is actually good research since my story is a baseball story.

It’s 0335 hours as I type, which will likely explain the fact that I’m totally babbling. I wonder, does anyone read this?…

I had a dream last night about following a cop on his rounds. It was odd. He wasn’t in uniform, but he was definitely checking things out in different places and I was following him. I think we were going to eat lunch or have dinner sometime afterward. Dreams, they can be so muddled, eh?

My little dog is freaking out. Running around, making crying noises. She’s nuts.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is on the cover of FHM. I know because we bought it. 😉

And why did I get the 98­° CD “The Collection” when I already own almost all the songs on it? I’m sucker, eh?

I’m going to miss Eric Chavez Bobblehead Day. I’m bummed! My Tim Hudson Bobblehead is lonely! He doesn’t like hanging out with just himself….

The dog is still going nuts.

I’m going to bed now…

A’s over the Blue Jays, 7-4. Eric Chavez hit a grand slam and Barry Zito got the win. 🙂

Right before Chavez’s grand slam, the screen flashes with his (then) grand slam stats. I said aloud, “Right, it’s not like he’s going to hit one.” Next pitch was out of the park. Nuts, eh? 😛

Urban Legends: Welcome to The Show, prepare for hazing
Mychael Urban writes the funniest things and I always enjoy his “Urban Legends” column. This one is no different. And I always seem to laugh at the Barry Zito bits. LOL!

But it was Barry Zito, circa 2000, who really took the cake. As in wedding.

Matt Stairs, now with the Cubs, bought a wedding dress for Zito to wear one day. And wear it he did. Happily.

“Oh, yeah. Dude, I was all virginal. Totally,” Zito says. “It was kinda sweet.”

Zito’s a freak boy, isn’t he? He makes me laugh! And he’s kinda cute too. 😉 Ah, and he’s signed until 2005. Most groovay!

Rats, I can’t resist!

click to read the article at oaklandathletics.com
From left to right: Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder and Barry Zito. (Kent Schacht/MLB.com)

Bugger! 🙁 A’s lost to the Toronto Blue Jay, 6-2. Mulder took the mound, but he got the loss. I do so hate the dark days…

Three moms and their babies – The moms of A’s aces Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder, and Barry Zito talk about their babies. I can’t believe that Mulder and Zito were preteens while I was in college. Ye gods! LOL! Oh, and if you go read the article, you’ll see a cute picture of the guys with flowers for their moms. Awwww….

Hmmm, Mark Mulder is on the mound tomorrow. Maybe he’ll energize the team and pitch a win. 😉 And then I can say he gave me a week later bday present. LOL!

Oh yes, the A’s lost to the Red Sox, 5-1. 🙁

I can’t resist. Here’s a picture of Carlos Ponce:

From the official Carlos Ponce website

I can’t believe I forgot to mention this. 😉

Bottom of the ninth, two outs. Carlos Peña is up at the plate. Suddenly, the game halts and they keep the camera on Carlos. He’s grinning and the announcers tell us that a fan has run onto the field. They say something about how cold it is at the stadium, but the fan doesn’t care. He’s on the field with NOTHING on! LOL! We get a shot of the whole field and see security running towards right field where the man has already been apprehended by a couple of other security folks. They show us the other players, who are all laughing and grinning. As the man is taken away, they show us Rickey Henderson just shaking his head and kinda laughing.

Carlos ended up getting a hit. 😉 He snapped a 0-19 hitless streak.