Last night after the Tigers beat the Cardinals and Fox was showing some parting shots of the stadium before moving on, I saw an aerial shot of Comerica Park and caught something I've never noticed before:

The dirt around home plate is actually shaped like home plate! I'd never seen that before and thought it was pretty cool. You can see it [here](http://tinyurl.com/ydhn9y "Google Maps").

Simple minds, simple pleasures, I guess... :-)

Betsie made an astute observation this morning: we have a Toastmaster (tm) coffe maker and a Mr Coffee (tm) tea pot in our kitchen.

Weird.

From [Asphaleia](http://asphaleia.blogspot.com/2006/09/name-game-they-make-impressive-banners.html) (hat tip: [the ESV blog](http://www.esv.org/blog/2006/09/divine.names)):

[The idea](http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=57) was to

>"[get] a large group of people in blue polo shirts and khakis to enter a Best Buy....Wearing clothing almost identical to the store's uniform, the agents would not claim to work at the store but would be friendly and helpful if anyone had a question."

It is preferential to refrain from the utilization of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualization can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities.

From [Mikey's Funnies](http://www.mikeysFunnies.com)

Why is this interesting to me?

From [Mikey's Funnies](http://www.mikeysfunnies.com)

>Tomorrow at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be

>01:02:03 04 - 05 - 06.

>That won't happen for another century.

>You may now return to your (normal) life.

My New Year's Resolution is 1600 x 1280

I wouldn't have posted this if it hadn't nailed my age...

A while back, my brother wrote the following paper as an assignment at school and gave me permission to publish it. However, it was delayed by some sort of web technical glitch (imagine that?). But now, here today, here it is in all its glory. Enjoy.

Did I Let My Man Down? by Timothy Allen.

This morning Betsie and I went to her 38 week Dr's appointment for the pregnancy. When we got there, the nurse mentioned that Betsie's doctor had a medical student with her this morning and would it be okay if the student came in with her. Betsie, reasoning that everyone has to practice sometime, said it would be fine.