After the Rain
Sep. 14th, 2008 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperCarol, Barisha, John, and Richard came down today for a scheduled session of training and pickup of the portable recording gear. I'd called yesterday to warn them about the flooding down here, but they decided they could manage the trip as long as they avoided streets that were particularly flooded. When they arrived, we headed out to lunch at Sweet Baby Ray's. This turned out to be their monthly brunch buffet which everyone enjoyed and which was a lot of food. Then we came back to the house and had a seminar of moderate length on the gear.
While that was going on, Bob came by to pick up baseball tickets for later this week. I asked him if he was going to Milwaukee to watch the Cubs/Astros game that had been moved there tonight because of Hurricane Ike. He said he wasn't, as he was going to the games later this week and up to Milwaukee for the season finale there. This turned out to be a mistake, because Carlos Zambrano pitched a no-hitter for the Cubs tonight. Ok, now who could have predicted that?
The flooding in central Des Plaines is pretty bad, because that's where the river is and it's way over flood stage. Fortunately, we're about as far from the river as you can get and still be in Des Plaines, so it's dry here, save for the field behind the house. All of the schools in the area are closed tomorrow, which isn't a great surprise.
And the rain finally stopped in the middle of the afternoon, so with any luck, the water will start going down soon.
While that was going on, Bob came by to pick up baseball tickets for later this week. I asked him if he was going to Milwaukee to watch the Cubs/Astros game that had been moved there tonight because of Hurricane Ike. He said he wasn't, as he was going to the games later this week and up to Milwaukee for the season finale there. This turned out to be a mistake, because Carlos Zambrano pitched a no-hitter for the Cubs tonight. Ok, now who could have predicted that?
The flooding in central Des Plaines is pretty bad, because that's where the river is and it's way over flood stage. Fortunately, we're about as far from the river as you can get and still be in Des Plaines, so it's dry here, save for the field behind the house. All of the schools in the area are closed tomorrow, which isn't a great surprise.
And the rain finally stopped in the middle of the afternoon, so with any luck, the water will start going down soon.
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Date: 2008-09-15 02:36 pm (UTC)Umm... Triple A? *grin*
I thought they'd put it into the rule book (or at least "Managing Baseball for Dummies") that a pitcher isn't allowed to pitch 9 innings anymore. A no-hitter is quite an accomplishment when complete games are almost unheard of. (I imagine that if he hadn't had a no-hitter going he would probably have been pulled just because even if he was doing well.)
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:36 pm (UTC)Watch the field behind the house
Turn to plain dark mud,
As the rivers over flood
And your neighbors sweating blood.