How I spent my autumn vacation, part 3

Sunday, October 28
Sunday morning, the weather was just on the verge of possibly thinking about someday becoming clear. It was a good time for it, because our plan for the day was to drive out to the Columbia River Gorge with Wynona and Jeff and Wynona's six-year-old son Alex. We went in two cars, because Jeff would be driving up to Seattle later in the day - and because kids (Alex in particular) can be unpredictable travel companions. (Yes, this is foreshadowing.)
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How I spent my autumn vacation, part 4

Monday, October 29
Monday it was raining again, and we got a slow start to the day. ( Read more... )

YANKEES LOST!!!!!

...and the Arizona Diamondbacks win the World Series.

Luis Gonzalez came to the plate in the seventh game of the series, bottom of the 9th, bases loaded. He said in his postgame interview, "it's the kind of thing you dream about when you're a little kid." I imagine it was a home run rather than a grounder to center field, in his childhood dreams... but he won the World Series for his team with one swing of the bat.

It's not so much that I'm a big Arizona Diamondbacks fan. It's more that the New York Yankees, root of all that is evil in the universe, have finally been vanquished. And there was so much rejoicing.