Glowing All-Stars

Watched the All-star game at JMR's. He wasn't there but in Washington D.C. He made me a floor plan of the apartment with all the emergency escape routes in case of a fire. Fortunately, there was no fire, the American League won, and I was able to leave through the front door.

I read an article on The Onion the other day, a piece titled, "Report: 90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles." Very funny, here it is. And though this is an exaggeration for most people (I think) the premise is still shockingly true.
So, while I stared, dazed, at the glowing rectangle tonight watching AL and NL hitters swing impatiently at first pitch after first pitch, and listened to Joe Buck flatulate out of his mouth into Tim McCarver's hair, I decided it's time to curb my wasted computer time. I still intend to write in my blog- daily if I can keep at it- but I'm going to limit my internet time to either 45 min or 30 min a day.
I purposely used the word internet and not computer. Since I write a lot, I almost have to use the computer more than 30-45 minutes daily. I often prefer typing to writing with a pencil. I once only wrote in notebooks but that started bothering my wrist so now I try to divide it up evenly between tapping the old keys and scrawling away with a pencil or pen.
I don't know how I'll do with this. I like to keep up with fantasy baseball news and Ricky Gervais's blog, so I guess I'll just have to read fast and pass on aimlessly signing into Gmail and Facebook so often. Since I have so few followers, I'm going to wish myself luck.

By the way, Carl Crawford was All-Star game MVP, deservedly so. He robbed a HR, with Papelbon on the mound, to preserve a 3-3 ball game. He also went 1-3 at the plate, but it was nice to see the Ted Williams award (All-Star MVP) go to a player for his defense. If you'll recall, before the season began I predicted Carl Crawford for AL MVP. Well, that's pretty close.