But it's easier to avoid specific, just say who dat and Drew Brees and you're good.

Once "Nomaaaaaaah!" wasn't good enough anymore, I was out of luck. I mean, me and the Sox both, am I right?? (I have no idea if I am right.)

Pretty much anyone I spend time with shares some interests with me and also has some interests I don't share (and ditto the other way).

Pfft, you and your legendary equanimity.

Random question of the day--does anyone have any suggestions of good online places for buying jewelry, especially necklaces?

I decided the other day that I am bored with my necklaces, but most of the ones I am finding online are too expensive, or ugly, or boring, or whatever.

good online places for buying jewelry, especially necklaces?

• ETSY--as long as you have a search term
• uncommon goods
• Wisteria

I think that accounts for 60-70% of my necklaces, and I have necklaces like some people have earrings.

I used to do Overstock too, but not recently.

Pfft, you and your legendary equanimity.

But, you know, it probably wouldn't work out with someone who was obsessed with baseball, given how much of it there is. Like it wouldn't work out with someone who didn't like TV.

Dunno, Lee. I have had some good luck at Cost Plus World Market, myself. But I've never bought a necklace online--oh, wait, I did, and it turned out to be really not what I was expecting, and rather difficult to put together with an outfit.

I have had good luck with Overstock, but it's hit or miss so it takes a few visits.

I need somebody to break it down much more simply.

I think one key to understanding baseball is listening to it on the radio. On the radio, the announcers have to explain everything that happens. On television, the announcers tend to say "what a great play" without describing it to those of us who looked down for a minute and missed it. If it's the Fox announcers, they'll keep talking about something completely irrelevant and not announce the play at all.

I'd like to go on record before it has a chance of sounding like sour grapes: this new wild card scheme sucks. Because they're playing two games on Friday, the Braves start at 5 p.m., which means that the outfielders will spend a good deal of the game staring straight into the sun.

Thanks! I will have to try those.

ETSY--as long as you have a search term

That's part of the problem. I have an image in my head of the kind of thing I want,but don't know how that would relate to actual words.

I was once told that I should learn to talk baseball so that one day when I marry my husband and I would have something to talk about.

I grew up with a smug assuredness that I could talk baseball for hours with my future spouse/partner/houseboy. And then I ended up with a guy whose knowledge of baseball is that it's a sport.

Good thing he's pretty.

(On the plus side, I can totally make shit up about baseball's rules and convince him they're true. Well, that works about half the time. And then for some actual rules he doesn't believe me.)

(I have actually taught him why the designated hitter rule is a desecration. Or, at the very least, when anyone mentions it, he knows to decry it.)