Ice Cream Chat

I don't eat a lot of ice cream (Trying to keep my girlish figure you know), but it is one of my favorite desserts.  If I had any choice of what to have to cap off a meal, it would be fresh, homemade vanilla ice cream with fresh strawberries. I don't like the chocolate family of ice cream unlike my wife.  My all-time favorite ice cream is Baskin-Robbins Rainbow Sherbet (I know, I know.  It's not technically ice cream, but still...)  Tonight I did have a bowl of ice cream of what could possibly be my new favorite flavor, Ben & Jerry's Oatmeal Cookie Crunch.  It was recommended to me by Jamie Mack last night and it did not disappoint.  

On a related topic, don't miss Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day on Tuesday April 29th.  If that is not enough for you, Baskin-Robbins is offering 31 cent cone night on Wednesday April 30th from 5:00-10:00.  

Dodger Stadium Announcement

Today the Dodgers announced additional changes to Dodger Stadium that they plan to make. Once the two New York teams close up shop in their current digs, Dodger Stadium will be the 3rd oldest stadium in the majors.  They are calling it "The Next 50".  As you can see here,  they are planning to make most of the changes on the outer portion of the stadium, particularly in the outfield.  While I do believe that Dodger stadium is a gorgeous stadium, the one area where I always though could use some improvement was beyond the outfield.  Depending on where you sit, all you see is parking lot.  Although it did provide a great backdrop when Kirk hit his homerun in game 1 of the '88 World Series and you got to see all the brake lights lit up as people realized they had left too soon.

I can't really complain about the improvement overall.  I am happy that they are making changes that will affect most everybody and not just the super rich and their luxury boxes.  

However, I am disappointed that it still does not provide an alternative for public transportation.  I've always loved stadiums where you could park for cheap and then take some sort of public transportation in.  The Dodgers are beginning to dialogue with the city regarding bus routes or even a Subway line up into Chavez Ravine.  My problem is that this is something that they are just beginning to discuss.  Which means we are many years away from anything on that front.  Anyway, I would love to hear your thoughts on the new plans.

Dice Stacking Update

An update on my progress: I can fairly easily pick up the die with the cup. The difficulty that I'm having is stacking them. Right now, they bounce around the cup and when I put them down on the table, they just fall haphazardly. But my quest continues and I will keep you posted.

Happy Earth Day!

Uniwatch

I love anything and everything to do with sports uniforms.  There is one site called uniwatch that is entirely devoted to discussing the minutiae of uniforms.  It is a daily read of mine ( and should be of yours as well.) Part of the daily entry is based on reader input and contributions.  I've contributed a number of things over time and I got another mention on Monday.  To see it, go to Monday's post, scroll down to "Uniwatch News Ticker," and scroll halfway down to see my contribution.  (Context note:  Paul Lukas, the main contributor, hates the color purple with a passion.  This will make more sense when you read my part.)

Welcome back

I'm back!  After a little hiatus, I've decided to restart my personal blog.  Why?  I don't really know.  Why not.  Of course, I'll continue to be a part of my other blog, but this will just be a place for me to spew whatever it is I'm thinking on any particular day.  If nobody reads it, so be it.  I still look forward to contributing to it. So...let the games begin:

1)  I'm constantly trying to seek knowledge and become a more well-rounded person.  This week that quest is going to involve learning how to do this:

2) The Dodgers are frustrating me to no end right now.  They just got swept by the Braves this weekend which in and of itself is no good.  But to compound the situation, There are 2 HUGE Braves fans at work who I've been messing with this past week, so I can only imagine what is in store for me tomorrow at work.  To the victors go the spoils though

3) I specifically gave this blog a lame name.  Please, please, please help me come up with a clever title for it.  I have a few ideas, but I want to see what everyone one else thinks would be a good title.