Today’s Game/Baseball in Tweets

Mirrored from Why I Like Baseball.

• Weather is beautiful! And I have mango bubble tea, an apple and beef lo mein, all bought inside #Yankee stadium! #
• The only thing that could ruin this day is Javier Vazquez… #

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Money For Nothing

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

In the morning I woke up to find him asleep in the other bed in his room. I guess I’d conked out in the wet spot. The connecting doors were still open and I wandered back into my room to get my toothbrush and such from my bag. Here were two unmade beds. I went through the same charade I’d done that one morning in Matthew’s room, tousling the sheets to make the bed look slept in.

I took a shower, tried to shave a day earlier than usual and cut my face up a bit, put on clean clothes, and wondered where I’d lost the hair tie Tread gave me yesterday. I found it in the breast pocket of my denim jacket and combed my hair back into a wet tail. Ziggy was still asleep. I closed the connecting door most of the way, took out my guitar, and started to play. Something Tread and I had been playing the day before had firmed up during the night into a song. Something about it didn’t sound quite right with only one guitar, though. If I did it in the studio, I’d have to overdub another part. And live, I’d have to hire someone else… nothing was ever simple anymore.

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Science fiction and space exploration!

I heart NASA, and NASA hearts me back.

I just watched Obama’s speech livestreaming from whitehouse.gov, on the new plan for NASA. He talked about how space travel and exploration as an ambition is an essential part of the American character.

I remember as a kid always wanting to go see a launch live. I settled for watching lots of them on TV. I remember the first test flight where they took the Space Shuttle on top of a 747 piggyback. As a young, solitary trekkie I thought calling it “Enterprise” was really fitting and cool.

And of course, I always wanted to grow up to be a science fiction writer.

I still haven’t seen a launch, but I will be going this summer to attend NASA’s LAUNCH PAD workshop for science fiction writers and editors, in Laramie, WY. This is basically a crash course in astronomy for science fiction writers and editors so that we can “get it right.” It’ll be a week at the U. of Wyoming with nights at the telescope, planetarium, etc, with daytime lectures in astronomy. I’m soooo excited! It’ll be in mid-July and I’m rather psyched.

My life has already seen such vast leaps in our knowledge, Voyager, Hubble, Mars rover, etc… What’s next?

Mirrored from blog.ceciliatan.com.