Something of meaning...

As I go through each day, fleeting moments of clarity occur.  Had I not been on the watch for them, each moment
would seem pretty much the same.  When you learn the difference between the natural dream state, the point somewhere
just a second or so after real time, and the closest thing to real time we are capable of seeing, these moments of clarity,
when the come, the contrast is startling.

What is even more startling, is the rapidity some days, or the total lack of one for months.  There is a reason for this.  There
is always a reason.  For every action there is a cause and an effect.  Action=Reaction, etc.  This is all reason is. 

La illah, il el allah!  Hoo!
There is nothing but what there is.

Get it?

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Trying Blog Weaver

I downloaded and installed BlogWeaver from Snapfiles.com
It isn't quite the independant interface with Blogger that ::boggar is.

Let's see how it looks online...
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Temporary sanity

The thing that proves I haven't fallen completely
under the spell of the local sports nuts is that this
is Monday.

Monday Night Football.

I honestly don't care which teams are playing tonight

I know it isn't the Red Sox.

I know it's not the New England Patriots.

It's a day off from New England Sports.

A day of temporary sanity.
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Infectioue enthusiasm

As was mentioned in an earlier blog entry, I have never
had much of an interest in sports. I have mocked people
in Florida, watching their obsessed behavior regarding
their college football.

Now here I sit, on a Sunday in New England.
Today is the second day of the World Series.
Boston is up one game,
but...
Today is also the day The New England Patriots
will play the New Jersey Jets.

This is football.

The Jersey Jets are 5-0
The Patriots are 5-0

When this game is over, one team will be 5-1 and
the other will be 6-0.

Buy that's not all.

The Patriots have gone 20 games since last season without
losing...

Talk about pressure!!!
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A clear demonstration

Game seven of the ALCS was a clear demonstration of the maxim
that just because a thing had never been done before, that it can
never happen.

I honestly think it was the belief of the Yankees that because they
had four tries to win, one of those times, even up to the last,
would HAVE to be the game they won.

And then the put Brown, 0 & 5 at home on the mound.

What where they thinking?

Anyway, here's to you Red Sox. I hope you didn't shoot your
bolt and can beat the dreaded National League in the
World Series.
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Oh, boo hoo

The Yankees lost in 12 innings last night.
Some may think they lost because of something
to do with pitching, fielding, hitting, or the lack
thereof.

Nope.

They lost because I went to bed in the bottom
of The Ninth, with the score tied 4-4.

It took another 3 innings for the sox
to win.

Tonight, I will be at a meeting in Town Hall
for the first few hours of the game.
I hope The Yankees can hold on long
enough for me to get home.

No matter what the wife says,
The World really does revolve around
me, in October, during the playoffs,
if
The Yankees are in contention.

Otherwise, in the words of the Simon
who is not the senator, I am no
more than the sand in an old man's cuff.
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Base Servers Being Maintained.

If there are photos or links not working on this blog
it is because we are doing maintenance on our main
server.

This will take most of Sunday-10/17/04 but should
be finished by Monday 10/18/04.

I hope, I hope, I hope....

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From whence came this interest in sports?

As a feral youth on the dirty streets of New York,
I can't say a deep knowledge of sports statistics was high
on my list of thing one needs to know to survive.

But that was New York, home of The New York Yankees.

We won, we won, we won, oh dear, we lost, oh well, we won, we won...

To tell you the truth, and the people of Boston may have difficultly understanding this:

It gets boring to win all of the time.

Boring and an accepted fact of living. The Yankees win, next....

But now I am in Boston. It is a religion here. No joke.

If you don't have a long list of reasonsThe Yankees won,
other than they are a well run professional baseball team,
then you may as well exclude yourself from all social
contact during the baseball season.

There's more. The New England Patriots.

They play in Foxboro, but as far as the people in Boston are concerned,
they are a Boston team.
This could be because they are winning, so far.

Will the feral youth of Boston one day say,
"The Patriots, they win, they win, they win...ho, hum?"

I doubt it.

There is always baseball.

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Let's just say...

The Yankees didn't lose last night.

The night before, I was feeling sorry for fathers and sons, sitting there in the rain, hoping against hope for the rain to go away. If it had, and the game turned out the way it did last night, perhaps they would have wished for the rain to continue.

To put a spin on this, last night was game five. The ALCS is The Yankees 3, one tie, (0-0). I know this isn't real, but a good spin now and then makes you dizzy and the people of Boston need to feel a little dizzy right now.

We stayed up, somewhat, to watch the entire game. I saw something I never thought I would. Behind home plate, where you usually see the well dressed people talking on their cell phone, I saw young fans wearing Yankee related sportswear. The Red Sox Fans had left the building, even though their mighty team had scored 8 runs and the game was yet to be decided.

What does that tell you about the Red Sox fans?

19-8 Yankees.
Series: Yankees3 -- Red Sox 0

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Rain! Rain!

Rain 1
Fans 0

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Once again

With feeling. You could have skipped innings 3,4,5,6 and 7. But in good American Baseball tradition, it was a clift hanger. But, as I mentioned last night, The Yankees won.

Again..

Now, don't get cocky.

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Yankees Won!

In case you didn't already know this, The Yankees won the first game.
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Belltower and Home Grazing

In my most recent Home Grazing entry, I mention finding a cd of the Pavarotti concert in June, 1981. It was in San Francisco. My dear friends Joe and Guin Miller had invited me to attend it with them.

For reasons long lost, I needed to be in New York and could not attend. I was browsing through my "spiritual" books and came across, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. In it was a note from Guin. She mentioned they were sorry I couldn't attend the concert with them.

Out of curiosity, I went to Google to see if there was anything about the concert and found a CD for sale at Amazon of just that concert. I need to get that CD. If for nothing else to see if I can hear Joe's distinctive laugh coming from the audience.

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Nature as I love it. 
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My friend from Maine, CA, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and outerspace has returned from the evil empire, France.

She was kind enough to send me a few photos that reminded me of the black and white romantic french films of the early sixties.

She was also kind enough to return from the evil empire. 
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No Political Advertising in Massachusetts

Did you know there have been no political adverts run in Massachusetts?

I understand other parts of the country are getting one a minute. The candidates seem to both feel this state will vote for Kerry. I wonder if either of them have noticed that we have a Republican Governor. We have had four republican Governors since we've moved here. The other thing they don't seem to remember is that Gore's state, Tennessee, went to Bush in the last election.

I feel neglected. Their assumption the state is a goner makes my vote in the Presidential election moot.

More serious than that, they scheduled last night's debate to coincide with the fourth game of the Red Sox-Angels playoff game. (Red Sox won).

This game was quickly followed by the Yankees-Twins game. (Yankees won.)

I supposed the pundit believed that anyone who would rather watch an exciting playoff game instead of a talking head and two aged politicians perform a staged three man show, would probably not vote.

How wise these pundits be.
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Mozilla Gorilla

Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox and the Mozilla Gorilla itself were downloaded and test driven this weekend.

I was looking for an advantage over Opera. I found none. Combined, the HTML editor in Mozilla, is really the only thing that Opera doesn't have. They have separated the browser from the "suite" and the email reader. Now they should separate the Netscape friendlier HTML editor as well.

Opera handles email and RSS feeds infinitely better. The advantage Firefox has over it is its forced IE compatibility. There are still programs out there, and websites that force a browser to be fully IE compatible. Opera will never be that.

This is Microsoft's fault. I don't mean this in the same way Red Sox fans say their record seven second place finishes are the Yankees fault.

Microsoft has made an effort to put the clogs in Opera's wheels. This is to no great advantage of the behemoth. They're doing it from spite. Or, sadder, they're swatting at Opera in much the same way you may swat at a spot on a wall. it might be a mosquito. It my carry EEE. It might bite you one day.

To Microsoft, three "mights" is reason enough for a preemptive strike. It's good enough for government work.

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A Malaysian dinner in Bridgewater

After a week of uncertainties at work, a Saturday of classes and my first day as an RE instructor, it was good to sit down for a late Malaysian lunch, served by Thais. We were the guests of a Singh family.
Welcome to America

The height of the meal's discussion had to do with seeing the wars in Iraq and Afganistan from the point of view of the everyday Muslim.
Morocco was brought up to lower the heat of the discussion.

Morocco is always good for that. Then the fact that the majority of the men responsible for the bombing in Spain being from Morocco brought the discussion back up to match the spicy Malay food.

It was an enjoyable afternoon, followed by watching the second half of the Patriots game. 31-17. Eighteen wins in a row. Next game against Miami. As a preview, we're watching the Jets play Miami.
Welcome to America
again...
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