The Days of My Life

tuesday

I know no one's going to show me everything
We all come and go unknown
Each so deep and superficial
Between the forceps and the stone

Well I looked at the granite markers
Those tribute to finality to eternity
And then I looked at myself here
Chicken scratching for my immortality
-Joni Mitchell

The Mets return home, with a 6 game losing streak, to face Milwaukee, which is a good team.

They are up 2-1 in the bottom of the 6th. 

The Mets are 3rd at getting runners in scoring position. They are 24th at batting them in. That's an epic clutch hitting failure. It's a debacle. It's unbelievable as a fan watching them every day. Chris Young has done nothing yet, and it's June. 

Happy thoughts
Happy thoughts

I love baseball. The only problem is that I've seen how this movie ends - it's been the same coda for the last 15 years. The Mets die horribly in the NLCS to Phillie and after that, in the regular season. That next year, they blow a huge lead to Atlanta in Sept. to miss the playoffs. 

Teagarden hits a grand salami. Mets 6-1. This is his first game this year. And it was opposite field! 

And the Mets go on to win.

thursday


Spoke to the surgeon today and I have 2 hernias. Damn, I never do anything half-assed. So...., next Friday I will be operated on. It'll be about 5 days before I can drive, but if I feel up to it, I can work from home. 

For the past week I have been staring my mortality in the teeth; 

1. Birthday
2. 24th college anniversary
3. A surgery

But I'm down with it.

Who wants to live forever?
-Queen