Thanks for a great birthday all!

My birthday was a great day...turning 28 wasn't so bad. As I told my sister, "I'm holding on to my twenties for a couple more years!" My brother turns 30 this May, and my sister already passed that mark and is headed towards 40! (haha, she's a mere 31).

Debbie made me breakfast before I headed off for a day out in the field doing inspections. I planned the inspections so that I could be outside and enjoy the nice Friday weather.

By the end of the day, I was ready for dinner...Debbie and I went to Truluck's here in Houston. It's a nice restaurant where my former company had a christmas party a few years back. I won a gift card that we finally were able to use... Dinner was awesome...had a filet mignon and crab legs, while Debbie countered with South African lobster! YUM!

And...my birthday might be over...but we'll celebrate in NYC over Memorial Day. Deb surprised me with a trip to the big apple and a game at the new Yankee Stadium. Against my lovable losers, the Indians! We are going to stop by the infamous Starbucks that we had our first "moment" or as Deb recalls "violence."

All in all, 28 is not so bad!

OHH, and those cupcakes Deb made, PHENOMINAL!!! They were Guinness cupcakes, with a dark chocolate Bailey's ganache inside, with a buttercream Bailey's icing. Holy crap! Easily top 3 desserts she's ever ever made!

An expensive softball game...

Last Thursday night (4/10) was one of the more expensive softball games in my beer league career! We have beer fines, like I've touched on in previous blog posts...I think. To summarize, you get fined for things like grounding out, pop outs to the infield, strikeouts, double plays, ending innings, ending games, etc etc.

Anyways, I had done well the first two weeks, taking a 0.818 average into week 3... First time this year we swept the night, and are sitting at 4-2 on the year...not a bad start. However, my 1 for 8 night changed my line for the year. Now batting a solid 0.500...50% success is good, but not the $12 in fines I accrued over the night. Check out the line below...ouch! Better luck this week!!

Week #3 Fine Totals (2 games):

Missed Game: Ryan, Michael, Jaime
Last Outs: Dennis, Terence
Double Play: Terence
Pop Outs: Andrew-2, Terence, Dennis
Ground-outs: Jason-3, Terence, Andy, Sheldon, Andrew, Dennis, Jon
Inning Last Outs: Terence-4, Jon-2, Andrew

Happy Birthday Terence!!

Happy 28th Birthday Terence! 

Go Away Sun!!...& Opening Day with the 'Stros

GO AWAY SUN! I heard that being yelled a few times...

Anyways, it was awesome to go to another opening day, our 4th in a row for the Astros. No surprise, they keep losing! That's why I predicted them to do nothing this year, except kept the NL Central Cellar warm! Bunch of benchwarmers!

Deb and I arrived at 545 or so and it was blazing heat! Everyone was there already...JR, Spicer, Brian, Louis, and Luis...you could see the misery on their faces! It was HOT and it's not even the summer! Brian and Spicer were all over the product placement with their Papa John boxes (photo above).

They had the dome open so they could have paratroopers fly in and land on the outfield, it was pretty cool.

All in all, baseball's back, so it's awesome. Texas heat, not so awesome! Astros and awesome can't be used in a sentence, except this one. This is going to be a looong summer for Astros fans! Too bad, I'm an Indians fan!!!

Indians win World Series in 2010! Plus more bold predictions...

Well I don't like to post too much baseball here, as who cares to read my crazy thoughts...but as the season opens tonight, I'm going to go ahead and make some predictions for the year...

Regular Season:
NL
Central - Cardinals (90-72)
East - Phillies (95-67)
West - Rockies (90-72
Wild Card - Reds (88-74)
AL
Central - Indians (98-64)
East - Rays (90-72)
West - Rangers (94-66)
Wild Card - Twins (96-66)

Division Series:
NLDS: Rockies over Cardinals, Reds over Phillies
ALDS: Indians over Rangers, Rays over Twins

Championship Series:
NLCS: Rockies over Reds
ALCS: Indians over Rays

World Series:
Indians over Rockies in 6 games...

That's my bold prediction, the Indians win it all in 2010, first WS since 1948!!

(This would be an awesome scenario...NO Yankees, NO Red Sox, NO Braves...oh, and I'll say the Astros go 87-75)