My sister Tania was at the Nathan’s Hot Dog eating competition today.  She was happy with the result, I was rooting for Kobayashi.  Oh well.  My roommate was rather disgusted by the whole thing.  Me?  I found myself REALLY wanting a hot dog.

Speaking of food… my roommate and I were flipping channels the other day and she insisted on stopping on the food network.  They had a show on about local resturants known only to locals.  The first part was on a place I’ve passed countless numbers of times, called Chaps Charcoal Resturant. It looked pretty good, and the prices are good, so I may have to visit soon.

Since I’m on a food kick at the moment, one more… this may also soon become my favorite thing.  Gotta try it.

Elsewhere…

The Sox won, beating the Yankees today, but are still behind the Rays.  If the Rays suffer injuries down the stretch, they’ll fall.  However, that seems to be a big if.  The Red Sox need to get a number of people back.

And  more locally…

When I have some free moments, I’ve been working rebuilding gbyo.com in Django.  The programming part isn’t particularly hard (despite not being familiar with Python… though, it’s not unlike other languages), and I kinda like the database API (It’s been a while, so I only barely remember ActiveRecord, but I seem to like this more).  The thing I haven’t grasped yet is overall project structure.  I’m working on that.

I’ve bought a number of books recently, and hope to start reading them soon.  Right now, I am reading this, as the publishers were nice enough to send me a review copy.  Review coming soon.  Additionally, I want to post some more formal thoughts about Crockford’s Javascript book soon. (Note: yes, that first linked book cost me .48 cents, w/o shipping)

I’m trying to convince people to go on vacation with me.  So far, I haven’t heard back from anyone.  That will only stall me, it will not deter me.

Be that as it may, I’ve been focused the last 2 days, buring through many of them. I’ve got two sets down, with one remaining. I’ve posted the first two to my newly purchased flickr pro account (I ran over the 200 image limit, and want to continue to see the old ones.)

Check out my party/band shots, and my photos of Boston and ALCS game 2.

I would like to see another view, and will be the first to admit that I may be biased. I tried watching it on Sportscenter, but they cut away before you could see his hands leave the bag. Objectively, however, I believe that the umpire could have seen this, and that would be the basis of the call. His hand was in there first, but did he stay on the base? I think not.

Regardless, it was a teriffic play by Manny.  Despite stupid Tim McCarver’s near constant (and just plain wrong) assertions that Manny may as well be playing without a glove, he made yet another great play off the wall because of his expert knowledge (and regular practice!) on the wall in left.  I am thrilled that they are going to the series. Leave it to me to travel up there to see the one game they lose at home. But I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.

I don’t expect anyone I know to come, as there is also something going on in Boston tonight. Some sort of baseball game?

So yea, come and see me torn. Don’t expect me to hang around after the concert for any more than a second though.

Alas, because of my (stupid) XSLT class Monday morning, I have to leave on Sunday evening, so I don’t really get to see much.  This is upsetting, as I haven’t been to Boston in YEARS.  The part that makes it especially upsetting is that I still remember most of what I did the last time I was there.

On my list of things to touch in full… 1) Advanced DOM Scripting.  I finished the book (a while ago) but haven’t had a chance to review it yet.  At the risk of ruining the surprise for my one (hopefully) reader, it was teriffic, and I highly recommend it.   I will do a full write-up later.  2) My comments on The Little Schemer.  This is simply an amazing book that’s opened up a number of paths in my brain.  I’m afraid that any review wouldn’t do it justice.  Maybe some thoughts on the book everyone should read. 3) Random thoughts on Bethesda, Kensington, Rockville (my new home!), riding my bike again, the Tchaikovsky concert coming up, my xslt class coming up, my recent css exploits… as you can see, I’ve got a lot of things that I am thinking about, but nothing to put down on paper… yet.  (Yes, I know, really, there is no paper… shut up!)

Contrast that with the time that I MUST spend with friends, and the potential Boston trip coming up… and I’ve got a lot to do!!  Better get started.  Washing my clothes now…