Things which are happening, in bulleted, executive-summary form, for blog readers on the go!
*My wedding. Yesterday was my negative-one-month anniversary, meaning that in a month from now my freewheeling bachelor days of living with my fiancee in the house we bought together and going to bed at 10 every night are coming to a continuation. We got our marriage license today in an unprecedented show of bureaucratic efficiency. Wedding stuff is pretty much set. Looking forward to seeing some family (mostly hers, as they will outnumber my family’s attendees like 3-1, so all mutual friends have to sit on my side) but mostly looking forward to having it done and eating cake and being on our honeymoon. But, who wouldn’t?
*Artie’s recovery continues. Monday was liberation day: stitches removed, e-collar retired, confinement discontinued. Vet says he’s doing great and now we’re into the long process of him regaining his strength and getting used to walking on a leg that’s missing a joint and is shorter than the other one. Also he’s still like 30% bald so that has to grow back in. We thought he would never want to see the guest room, the location of his confinement, ever again. But, oddly, he’s pestering us to be let back in there. Leading theory is that is where he got all his morphine and he’s hoping for another hit.
*Fantasy baseball season ends, playoff baseball begins. My fake teams all took home a trophy: in three leagues I finished first, second, and third. This proves once again that most of my best skills have no practical value whatsoever, at least until being able to successfully predict the general trend of professional sports statistics becomes a paying occupation. (Of course, there is always gambling.) As far as playoffs go, I don’t anticipate watching heavily this year. I think I watched maybe three games from start to finish this year. Although I read an absolute ton. I feel like I followed a whole season of some computer simulation that didn’t actually take place in the biosphere. It’s disorienting to then actually watch: I spend all my time reading Fangraphs and Joe Posnanski, where they intelligently talk about advanced statistics that actually, you know, affect outcomes of games. Then I turn on a game and the announcers tell me that Player X really knows how to win, and then there are beer commercials telling me that somehow Coors Light is good now because it comes in a new type of container, and then I barf.
*I started reading Thomas Pynchon’s V., which I mention because every time I try to read Pynchon since I failed to get through Gravity’s Rainbow, I feel that I have to report the effort. Since failing at GR, I tried, succeeded, and loved The Crying of Lot 49. I thought I was ready for V. and I’m getting through it all right but honestly finding it to be a bit of a slog. I’m hoping the ending comes together for me, but we’ll see.
*I am desperately trying to figure out what that pumpkin ale was that I had 3-5 years ago that was so delicious. Most pumpkin ales seem like they’ll be good, and might even smell good, but then turn out to be a little boring. This one, which I am not making up, was excellent. But I don’t remember what it was. If you have a good pumpkin ale recommendation, I am eagerly listening.
