Happy Birthday 30 year olds!

Not much to report but I just want to mention that I know four people turning 30 between April 20 & 25. Kind of crazy that they are all the same age. Happy Birthday Lisa, Erika, James and Andi! (Actually Lisa might not be 30 yet but she's the true "oldest" of the four since she has the husband, mortgage, kids and all :)

Also, loving Justin Morneau and his walk off single on Sunday. Overall most of the Twins are doing ok. Not any real standouts but no huge disappointments either. Boof pitches tonight though so that could change. Still my least favorite.

It's awesome weather here these days and the trees have buds. Some are getting ready to burst out with green it seems. A little bit of rain and it's definitely better looking outdoors.

I've seen a few movies lately and have a few more to watch. I saw Things We Lost In The Fire with Halle Berry and Benicio del Toro which would have been a Lifetime movie if it weren't for the high powered stars but still good. Lost Boys of Sudan was a documentary which was good. It's about Sudanese refugees coming to the U.S. Also just got done reading a young adult novel called Hattie Big Sky which was really good. It takes place in 1917 and has an orphan girl trying to earn her deceased uncle's claim in Montana. It's a lot about how hard it was to be German American during World War I. Can definitely see some parallels today.

That's enough rambling for today. Have a great one!

Free Rice

I've added a link to freerice.com which is an awesome website that helps people with their vocabulary while providing food for hungry people around the world. If you're just surfing the net, kind of bored, there's no better way to spend your time. On that note though, I will also mention www.kiva.org which is a microfinance site that you can use to loan money to people around the world. You can select somebody who needs some money to start a business, they develop their resources and pay you back. Very cool project.

On a completely different note, I'm now 2-0 with the Twins as I went to the game last night against the Rays and the Twins got back to winning after a few lousy games. Detroit is finally getting on to winning after a pathetic start. We helped out in their efforts unfortunately. Morneau is doing well and Mauer has been getting back to hitting after a slump. It's early but the race for the playoffs seem to always come down to a game or two and we focus on those later in the year when the outcome of a game in April counts the same. Oh well. Have a great day!

Ah, the memory of being a sardine...

Here's a blast from the past that somebody mentioned was online. For anybody that has been on a Tokyo subway during rush hour I'm thinking you'll have memories of this sort of thing. Notice how one person fights to get on and then two more go on after that! Very typical in my experience there. For those of you that ask why they don't have more trains... They are pretty much at capacity. The trains run at least every three minutes and sometimes there is one parked in the tunnel right behind the one in the station. A very efficient system but a very big city.

Minnesota Ball

In addition, (since I ran out of space in the last entry) I decided I should show you what my car looked like after the game. I had to sweep off my car three separate times last Monday. This was the last one so though it doesn't look like a ton, this was after only a few hours. We had a pretty decent snowstorm last Monday although by Thursday it was t-shirt weather again. Gotta love the variety.

Let's Play Ball!

Sorry it's been so long. First it was a weekend in New York with some friends and then last week...baseball! I went to the opener which the Twins won but I haven't been to any games since then. Boof Bonser is really good.... at being my least favorite player. Today was another loss for him. Granted, he didn't get much run support but anybody that legally changes their name from John to Boof has a ways to go to earn my respect. My top three players are Pat Neshek, Justin Morneau and Joe Nathan in that order. I've put some pictures here of NY and also the Twins. I had very distant seats but my zoom is pretty good. I'm going to get good seats one of these days and then I should have some really good pictures. Back to schoolwork. Have a great day!