April 12, 2010
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The Daily News
1 A four-hour and nine-minute rain delay.2 That's how long the San Francisco Giants and Atlanta Braves had to wait just to begin a game that ended with the sky opening and throwing a flood upon the remaining people. It began pouring the very second that Giants' reliever Jeremy Affeldt struck out Matt Diaz of the Braves.
3 That weather report comes to you from the kind hand of Andrew Baggarly of the Merc News. He likened yesterday's ending as "biblical". The Giants won the game, 6-3, with our young Mr. Lincecum striking out ten, and Pablo Sandoval almost hitting for the cycle.
4 I didn't even know there was a game. I had listened to the rain delay for around three hours and finally gave up.
5 The rain poured everywhere yesterday, plipping and plopping and floodingthe town.
6 What a week. One day the sun shone so beautifully that my daughter Nicole and I drove into the hills and took pictures of the snow.
7 The next two days I was sitting in 80-degree sunshine watching the waves at the beach. Somewhere in there baseball started.
8 And yesterday, the Spring kept wanting to come back, but with little help from the heavens.
9 I loved it.
10 I wound up sitting around watching Mystery Science Theater 3000, one of the greatest contributors to rainy days since the Lord God.
11 It was a spoof of this horrid 1975 film called Mitchell.
12 I haven't laughed so hard in years.
13 Here's a little taste, if you have around ten minutes. All the MST 3000 shows were pretty similar, so if you've never had the pleasure, please allow me to give you a sampler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InHgWFrQRbI14 Yeah, a little dated, but still hilarious.15 Whoops!
16 This may be the first PG-13 DN ever!
17 Ah, vell. Sign of the times.
18 Sometimes I just think the world is going to Hell in the proverbial handbasket.
19 But at least I'm enjoying the ride.
20 Moving on, Part the First: The irony is that I actually wrote another DN last night, but felt it was inappropriate, and so I lifted it. It was a sort of Celebrities Who Have Let Themselves Go sort of hit-piece, but I think just one Joe Don Baker film counters all the offensiveness that I had clicked out last eve.
21 So I thought I'd take high road and just share a rainy day with you.
22 Quite a week, overall. If I had to look back on it, it was pretty productive. While at the beach, I graded an entire set of papers, and believe it or not, I did so with a clearer head than had I sat at home with all the distractions. Getting hit in the head with an occasional beach ball does not constitute a distraction.
23 It rather puts me in the mood for summer!
24 Anyway, the rain is always a bit poetic, so I let it plip and plop and tickle the roof of my sunroom.
25 Smiles all around.
26 And I prepared enough for my classes, got a good night's sleep, and even had time to tack out this edition of the DN.
27 Life's good.
28 I don't mind rainy Mondays. They have a tendency to be a little laid back.
29 So go out and enjoy the day; it feels good to be alive and refreshed.
30 Hope you all have a cleansing and hopeful day.
31 Awaken and enjoy it!
32 Peace.
~H~
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