A bit of this - a bit of that

Even though you never read here, Happy 62nd Birthday, Mom. I love you.

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A day of freeedom is welcome, however unexpected. What with today being Saturday and my kids not coming until tonight I have the day totally to myself. Unusual but nice. (My kids actually arrived around 18:30.)

So what did I do with my day?

Well after playing here for a while, I did some errands from 11:00 to 14:30. Sat in traffic for about a half hour or so trying to get from the connector highway to the grocery store. If you ever come to Nashua, do yourself a favor: stay away from the Daniel Webster Highway and connecting roads on Saturday afternoons. Way too much traffic for that road, what with a mall and all kinds of shopping plazas, restaurants and car dealerships on that road... I actually finished watching a movie this afternoon that I started to fall asleep on last night.

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Looks like there will be no digital camera for me right now. I'll just have to bring a regular camera with me on my trip to Dallas and have the pictures put onto a cd-rom for easy uploading to blogger.

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The "plan" has hit a bump in the road. DTS has received all of my references and my college transcript but they can't begin to process my application yet. You see, due to a lackadasical freshman year of college on my part, allowing 1.0 and 1.5's to drag down my GPA instead of withdrawing from the classes as I should have, my overall GPA is below a 2.5. So I must take the GRE or MAT. They recommend the Miller Analogies Test for those who have been out of school for some time. I called the closest place to me that gives it, which is a small Catholic college in Nashua. I arranged to take the test this Tuesday, with a nice old nun called Sister Mary Jane- just like the candy bar. (She actually said that to me on the phone. I'm not poking fun at her name, honest...) Once I take the test and the school receives my score, then they will make a decision on my application.

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Spring is on the way!! Red Sox pitchers and catchers reported to camp today with first workouts on Sunday afternoon. Regular position players report on Wednesday. Though I don't pay real close attention to the spring training games; but for me it's always a reminder that spring is just about a month away. And let me tell you, it can't come soon enough.

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The Powerball drawing tonight is at a record $365 million annuity ($177 .3 million lump sum). I don't normally buy lottery tickets, but when the jackpot gets to astronomical levels....well how can you not buy some numbers and wish? You can't win unless you play, right?