Thursday afternoon at the Rotary Club of Evanston meeting I met Don Frey, the lead Ford Motor Co. engineer who designed the Mustang. He brought one of the original cars with him:
See? Rotary, always worthwhile, is sometimes cool.
No, not those Sox; the other Sox.
One curse down; one to go.
Congress has passed legislation creating a national registry of people with ALS:
The legislation would establish the first ever national patient registry of people with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, to be administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The registry would collect information leading to the cause, treatment and cure of the deadly neurological disease that took the life of baseball legend Lou Gehrig in 1941.
In tangentially-related news, Saturday's remembrance will be at 11 at the Kenilworth Union Church.
My body doesn't know if I got up this morning at 7 or midnight. I can't decide whether or not I'm hungry. And because I neglected to check email for two days, I had 980 messages totalling over 600 MB (one of my friends sent me the same...photos...four...times), of which 650 were spam.
I will now collect my dog.
Marcel Marceau died yesterday.
So did the St. Louis Cardinals, who were mathematically eliminated from the post-season.
A larger-than-usual bunch of news stories piqued my interest this morning:
I almost had to pull over this afternoon when I heard about the Orioles losing 30-3 to the Rangers last night:
...[T]he Orioles were battered by a team that kept batting around. They surrendered six home runs, two of them grand slams, and a club-record 29 hits. They also gave up the most runs scored in the majors since 1900, historic indiscretions that punctuated a 30-3 loss to the Texas Rangers before a sparse but wildly entertained gathering at Camden Yards.
Wow, only one Baltimore error:
| Final |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
R |
H |
E |
| Texas « |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
10 |
6 |
30 |
29 |
1 |
| Baltimore |
1 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
9 |
1 |
After attending the ALS fundraiser (i.e., Lou Gehrig Day at Wrigley Field) last night, I decided to sleep past the normal play-group time and take Parker to day camp instead. Several bits of good news in this: first, the Les Turner ALS Foundation raised butt-loads of cash; second, even though the Cubs lost, so did the Brewers, so the Cubs are still only one game out of first place; third, Parker gets to hang out all day with his friends; and fourth, said hanging-out will make Parker sleep most of tomorrow when he's back here.
The only bad part is, of course, no office puppy today. Sad.