I keep myself busy in gridlock by playing with the iPhone camera.

These are cool stairs. Stairway to the Stars, perhaps?

Red lines represent traffic jams.

Weeeeeeeeee!

We’ve got 2 miles to go and we ain’t moving! Woohoo!

Piano lessons?
Done.

Karate class?
Wrapping up right now.

Topsfield Fair?
Still a couple of hours away, but it’s next on the agenda.

Full day?
Most certainly!

Good Day?
Absolutely!

So close to a perfect round for me.

The final pitch of the 2011 Division series round was just thrown in Philadelphia, and the Cardinals have some how managed to eliminate the team with the four aces in the rotation.

Wow!

The Brewers eliminated the Diamondbacks earlier tonight, and just a few minutes ago the Cardinals did the nearly impossible and eliminated the Phillies.

How the hell did that happen?

Let’s recap my first round picks. I picked Texas and Texas won. I picked Detroit and Detroit won. I picked Milwaukee and Milwaukee won. I picked Philadelphia and the best team in the league ruined my shot at a perfect round and lost.

I didn’t think St. Louis had a prayer.

So here are my second round picks…

In the American League Championship Series between the Texas Rangers and the Detroit Tigers I pick Texas. They made it to the World Series last year, and I don’t see them not making it again this year.

In the National League Championship Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and the St. Louis Cardinals I am going with my gut and picking the Cardinals. You don’t beat a four ace team and not ride that the whole way.

To sum up, I’m predicting (well, actually just hoping for) a Rangers vs Cardinals World Series.

Bring on round two!

This is all that’s left of our once mighty, yet mostly dead tree.

I just got the word.

The tree has been removed.

It’s sad.  I loved that tree, I really did.

But I much prefer it being removed now to having to remove it after it fell onto the car or the house.

RIP tree.

A video clip of Neil Peart talking about how the song “Jacob’s Ladder” was cut from the Time Machine Tour set list.

I had heard the rumor that this one was going to be played and it was the one song I was really hoping for.

Maybe next time.

I would like to say that I am thankful that the tree has been removed but I have yet to hear any news.

Instead I will mention something else I am thankful for this morning.  While I spent last evening either watching the Bruins on the tube or listening on the radio, I lost track of baseball.  I checked the Tigers vs Yankees score once and Detroit was up 2-0 early.  That was all I knew.

This morning I checked the scores again and, as luck would have it, the Tigers won the game 3-2 and won the division series 3-2.  The Yankees are out of it.  Oh happiness!  Oh bliss!

The Yankees are out… the Rays are out… both teams that conspired to keep my Red Sox out of the post season were eliminated in the first round.  Happiness! 

(See what I did there?  I blamed New York and Tampa Bay for Boston’s collapse.  That is called, “denial.”  In other words, I am trying to forget about how god-awful the Red Sox played in September.  The truth is, it was all our own fault.  The Yankees and Rays didn’t do anything other than play well.  All the Red Sox needed to do was win one out of every three games in September and they would have been in the post season, but they failed.  It was all their own fault.  But, being a homer, I am going to make sure New York and Tampa Bay take a share of the blame, for no reason other than jealous hatred.  Go Red Sox!)

Tonight we will get to see who advances in the National League.  Go Phillies.  Go Brewers.

Go Bruins.

Damn it?