Holy shit - long day.

We won our playoff game in nine innings which is three extra for Little League.

We played without two of our best players and had to drag a kid into uniform who had a very bruised thumb just to field a team.

Close game and we were down 3 to 1 going into our last at bat.

Their pitcher had dominated but he'd used up all his pitch count. The new pitcher was wild. Struck out the first batter. Walked one. Walked a second one. Wild pitch and they moved up to second and third. Another wild pitch and the guy on third scored, and the ball hit the backstop so hard it bounced back into the infield. The guy on second kept running hard (on his own initiative) and slid into home. The throw beat him but he slid into the glove and knocked it out.

Totally crazy play that tied the game and sent it into extra innings.

Bottom of the seventh, they have the game winning run at third and their batter hits a hard shot at Emmett playing short. He fields it cleanly, throws to first for the out and that saves the game.

Top of the ninth and our leadoff hitter reaches on an error. Emmett walks. I warn him not to slide going into second so they don't have an easy double play. Batter hits a chopper right up the middle - the shortstop fields it cleanly. It's a perfect double play ball, but Emmett goes in standing up and blocks the double play. They only get the force at second.

Then our manager's son comes up and hits a mammoth blast. I think it was higher than a four story building. Three runs score.

Now we just have to hold them and get three outs.

First batter, screaming line drive right into our third baseman's glove.

Second batter, hard hit liner into right-center field. Our guy with the injured thumb races a long way and makes the catch (which is obviously painful).

Next batter, hits a flare shot into no-man's land in short left field. Emmett races over from shortstop, hustles hard, leaps for it and...just misses it. The runner winds up second. Moves to third. Comes around to score. And then our pitcher strikes out the last batter and we've got our come back win with a very gritty game by our not-star players making the difference.

And yeah, this was against the team who called us morons in the email kerfuffle so it was just a wee bit sweet.

Tonight's ep of Criminal Minds was one with the suicidal college student who kills so that the serial killer suspect could be freed because she wants him to kill her. Is that Mandy's last ep? I'm guessing we're to think suicide, right?

Cash, your mother sounds like a Far Side cartoon.

Cool, Ali.

Off to bed. 7am meeting.

I think he was also in the second episode, ita. Sort of. IIRC, he's "missing" and then Reid finds a letter from him at the end.

She is, ironically, allergic to venison

I didn't know that was POSSIBLE!

I, too, have a 7AM meeting, ita. But I am so very glad that it is a teleconference from my home office, rather than something I have to commute somewhere for.

And to continue the morning vs. evening shower thing, when I was in high school and had waist length hair, I would shower at night, so that it would dry by morning. Because I don't think I owned a blow dryer. And when it was that long, it couldn't really do much to look funny, by sleeping on it. I'd just braid it.

I have meara's high school hair!

Unrelatedly, I've become completely addicted to milk lately. I've always loved milk products, like chocolate milk and, of course, cheese, but I'd only like milk with cookies, not straight up. Lately, though, I can't get enough. And it's 1% milk, so it's not like I'm finding all the fat super delicious. Maybe it's the fact that it's the organic kind? Does that somehow make is sweeter and more like crack? Because, seriously, I come home craving milk. I buy a gallon and finish it long before it goes bad (which is admittedly far off, but still!). I just had two giant cups for dinner, and then felt kinda guilty and made myself some soup to go with it. But all I really wanted was the milk. What is wrong with me?

I am, for some reason, still awake. And now I'm reading Anne's House of Dreams and disliking it, as usual. Miss Stacey would not have let Anne write something like the story of Leslie.

I am so sick of doing math. Actually, I'm so sick of looking at these same three things that I've been working on all year. I need something new, but I also need to finish writing up the first one of these and then actually get somewhere on the others. But I'm so tired of it.

I woke up too early. I guess it's good, since I have a 9 o'clock meeting, but I'm so tired! It must be a sleep-cycle thing, because I often wake up early when I've gone to bed late -- it's like my body knows I don't have time for one more cycle, so just wakes me up ahead of time.

I woke up as Jesse this morning apparently.

I had to skip like 600 posts. Work has gotten so busy, I'm constantly way behind.

Susan and Hec! I went to a baseball game on Monday! I will never like it as much as my other sports, but we stayed for the whole thing (with 90 year old bar patron in tow) and I got to see a grand slam. And I voted for some of y'all's guys for the All Star game. Either names I knew y'all mentioned or I went back and forth. I did vote for a couple of Rangers though.

Hockey is over now? That means comic book boyfriend will shave his beard. Pooh. I liked the scruff. Who won? If it wasn't the Red Wings my coworker will be pissy when he gets back from Mexico.

Lastly, I just finished a skirt last weekend that I know lisah-and probably anyone else who likes skulls and cross bones would love. I'll have pictures in a sec.

Here we go. Damn, it took forever to get those off my phone.

Skull and crossbones skirt. [link]

Closeup of material: [link]

Also, forgot to mention EDDIE IZZARD tonight! I have to find someone to go with me since I think best friend is going to flake.

Timelies all!

Home recuperating today.(I'm also taking tomorrow off. Dunno if I'll need it, but I have plenty of sick time stored up. Can't hurt.)

Usually shower in the morning, unless I've been out in the heat and sweating like mad, and feel too gross to go to bed like that. I have to wait to shower today because of the post-surgery thing.