This post is for Colleen

We'll chalk it up to the baseball season, boys and girls, because I Live For This.

I'm not sure how many of my 3 readers follow the Rays, but what you're thinking is probably right: We're not very good at baseball. We're actually downright bad. This is how bad it is: We're the 3rd-worst team in the game, yet this year is being dubbed a success. If for no other reason than we have a Ray Team, which should still be called The Fundamentals, and they could do a cover of a Divnyls song, because the name's sorta close, as the last 2 letters are the same. Although they're not musicians. They're mostly dancers and gymnasts. And teachers.

Thankfully, zooming your lens out a bit, you can see something like the 2006 Detroit Tigers. It's a bit of a stretch, but we've got a great load of talent...we just need to utilize it properly. Add a veteran here and there, like a Kenny Rogers and a Magglio Ordonez, and we're in business. I'd also argue for a closer examination of Joe Maddon; granted, 1 year is a bit too short of a span to judge his managerial skills, but we do have a LOT of talent that doesn't seem to be translating into wins. Under Joe Girardi, Terry Francona, or Ron Gardenhire, I think we'd be a +.500 team.

The Pluto thing: totally messes up SolarQuest. What a fine, fine board game.

File it under It's Not Interesting: Suri Cruise. Katie Holmes is meant for me, anyway.

The Illusionist: Fine, fine movie. Looking forward to The Prestige, Christopher Nolan's new film. Jon and I were discussing his pre-Memento work, and here it is: The Following.

Just finished Fooled By Randomness, a Blink/New New Thing Thinking Book that's designed to make you understand that nothing's really random. Long-lens, it all makes sense. Laws of averages, and such.

Machnacki and a Girl: This may be the new central tenet of my new novel. Which I'll start as soon as the screenplay starts. Which I'll create from the short story I write. All of this was actually in motion, and then my Western Digital RAID array crashed and I lost the story. It wasn't really bad either; I just had no ending.

Wedding thoughts: Don't get married. Just kidding. Outsource the invitations, or else you're up at 3am hating your printer and wondering how HP can get away with selling things that break so easily. And make it a party. That's what it is.