Have any other owners of the first gen Apple Watch noticed that since the OS update the battery life has been drastically reduced? I used to be able to go nearly two days on one charge, but now I’m lucky if I can go 12 hours without going into power save mode.
It’s pissing me off.
Ms Patches is pretty psyched that the Red Sox finally scored a run in game 3 against Cleveland. Pedroia, Bogarts, and Bennitendi (sp?) have come to play tonight. Patches isn’t so sure about the rest of the team.
Guitar #2: Ready to go.
Time to start packing up the car, I think.
Guitar #1: Ready to go.
I took the day off from work today to get my shit together for tomorrow night’s gig. The plan was to make a few changes to my pedal board, and then practice practice practice.
What did I actually do?
I watched a ton of Luke Cage on Netflix. Like, five or six episodes. I bought some new clothes for work (and maybe a black t-shirt for tomorrow night). I got my hair cut (finally!).
When I got home I fixed up the pedal board and played the guitar. I didn’t practice any of the songs that I needed to work on, but I did run through a bunch of exercises.
After that, I went out to dinner with my wife because she’s amazing and I am crazy in love with her.
It’s been a good day. Tomorrow’s going to be nuts. Sunday and Monday are going to be sent home with the love of my life. It’s going to be a good holiday weekend.
Gearing up for tomorrow’s gig.
The Wild Card games are over. How did my picks do?
Not great, not bad. There were only two and I was 1–1. I got Toronto right and San Francisco wrong. It’s an even number year so I should have known the Giants were going to advance. Oh well, live and learn.
Now on to the Division Round. First, the American League.
Boston vs Cleveland. I always pick the Red Sox. I live in Boston. Duh. This year I feel it is the correct pick even without my bias. The Indian’s starting rotation is in injury shambles. The Red Sox greatest strength is their offense. They should devour Cleveland’s pitching. Go Red Sox.
Toronto vs Texas. These two cats hate each other. It could be a fun series to watch. I look at this more in terms of who I want to face should my Red Sox advance to the next round. The answer is… I don’t know. Toronto scares me. Texas scares me too. My head tells me that the Blue Jays will advance because they are rolling at this point. I think I’ll go with that. The Blue Jays will win.
Now for the National League, aka the league I barely noticed at all this year.
Los Angeles vs Washington. Far be it from me to dis Clayton Kershaw, but there’s no way I’m betting against Max Scherzer. Oh how I wish we had signed him when he was a free agent. Life in Fenway would have been so different had we snagged that dude. I’m picking Washington.
San Francisco vs Chicago. Here we go, kids. The longest championship drought on Earth (is it?), the Chicago Cubs. Is this the year? It sure sounds like it. They are a hell of a team. Obviously I am picking them, they are the safe bet, but having lived through the Red Sox tragedies leading up to 2004 I have experience watching great teams blow it in colossally horrid ways. We just have to sit back and wait to see how the Cubbies will blow it this year. We all know they will.
So there you have it, I am predicting a Boston vs Toronto AL Championship series, and a Washington vs Chicago NL Championship series. Will any of those picks be correct? Not likely!
GO RED SOX!
Most years I try and post my predictions for each round of the Major League Baseball and National Hockey League playoffs. In baseball, the wild card round starts tonight (and ends tomorrow) so I best get to it!
American League – Baltimore vs Toronto: Can you believe that three teams from the AL East made the post season this year? Less than an hour from now two of them will duke it out for the opportunity to play Texas in the Division round. I seriously want Baltimore to take this game because I want all teams that seem like a threat to the Red Sox winning the American League to lose. Sadly it’s not going to happen. Toronto is going to win tonight.
National League — San Francisco vs New York: A couple of confessions here. First, I barely followed the National League at all this year. Second, my playoff picks are not exactly logical. Often I’ll just pick the team that I traditionally hate the least. Third, I hate all baseball teams that have any connection to New York. The Mets are from New York. I effin’ loathe them. The Giants used to be from New York. I effin’ loathe them too. That means I want both of these chumps to lose tomorrow. Sadly, I have to pick one. I am going to pick the Mets and I hate myself a little for doing so. You suck, Mets.
There you have it. My ever so well thought out picks for the wild card round. Toronto wins tonight, and New York wins tomorrow. I’ll go over the results and make my picks for the division round on Thursday.
Play ball!
Two things happened to me at tonight’s band practice that haven’t happened in all the years I’ve been practicing with bands.
First, my trusty Dunlop Cry Baby Wah-Wah pedal actually broke. I pushed down on the pedal to turn it on for a screaming psychedelic guitar solo and then stepped on it to turn if off when I was done… except it didn’t turn off.
After the song ended I tried to click the button with my hand and that didn’t turn it off either. The switch seems to have died a heroes death. I’ve owned three of those pedals over the years and I’ve never had one die before. I had one stolen once, but that doesn’t count. If I can’t fix it I’ll have to use the back up that’s in my cellar right now. Kinda glad I put together that stay at home pedal board.
The second thing that happened tonight that has never happened to me before is another tragic failure. I wear ear plugs when we play. Practice, gigs, whatever. If there is full band volume, I’m wearing ear plugs.
Tonight we sounded kinda loud. I chalked it up to last-rehearsal-before-the-gig-over-exuberance. Then at about the 2 and a quarter hour mark it happened. The ear plug in my left ear… fell out. How’s that for odd. That’s never happened to me before. One minute it’s in there, the next, boop, it’s on the floor. Safe to say that the reason for the extra volume can now be explained as my ear plug wasn’t in right. It felt okay going in, but I guess not.
Now everything on my left sounds like it’s far away and surrounded by ocean waves. Damn it.
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