Our bats were light tonight, but we prevailed 7-2 in a defensive thriller. I had a rare good day in the field with four outfield catches. Got gunned down once at home plate on a perfect throw, but I made up for it with a first-to-home effort (uh, suuuure I touched second base...) late in the game. My line: 2-3, R.

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What, you don't name your goldfish? I think you have to when they are this size!

Since I've been thwarted in my quest to grow a big goldfish (like Mom and Dad's giant Moby), I went to the pond shop and bought some big goldfish. It may be unoriginal, but I'm calling my biggest one Moby also. He's around 9 inches long, all orange, and already master of my pond. Zeus is half white/half orange, around 8 inches long, and a clear second-in-command. Both are your common Comet goldfish. We added one more fish to our order, a 6 inch Shubunkin with a white underbelly and traditional speckled Shubunkin-style coloring on top.

The coolest thing is that I can see Moby and Zeus from my bedroom window. That's far enough to be impressive :-)

We had our first softball loss last night, 9-6, after our bats mysteriously went quiet. We had great consistency in flying out. Our lone highlight was the 6-run 4th inning where we took a one-run lead. My line: 1-3, R.

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Last night I went with the beginner's group bicycle ride at Cycling Spoken Here. I had a great time, and I was plenty tired by the end. At one point, I almost fell over at an intersection because my legs were too tired to pull my shoes out of the pedal clips. In the end, we went about 22 miles in an hour and a half. I'm looking forward to the next ride already.

If you don't read Off The Mark by Mark Parisi, you should. Here's a recent entry of Off The Mark for your enjoyment.

"Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer." -Percy Cerutty

We played our second game of the season last night, and boy can these Grandpas hit! In the first and second innings, it was almost continuous -- double, double, single, triple, double. We even fielded decent for the first half of the game. In the end, we defeated last year's champion by a score of 22-11. My line: 2-3, 3B, 2R, 3RBI (not bad for the 9-spot!)