The incredibly busy summer of June continues to roll along. Friday’s softball game wound up getting cancelled due to rain in the morning – The Mecklenburg Parks and Recreation department are a little too quick to cancel games sometimes. At any rate, it gave me a reason to head over to the Harding’s house to take a taste of our week-old-bottled “Dante’s Honey Wheat Beerferno” = very smooth, although it will have to age for a couple more weeks until it’s about perfected. We also swung by Mei’s for dinner – or at least I thought it was Mei’s… it’s sushi place there at the intersection of Rea and Colony. Food was very good, service was a little snail-like.
After that, met up with a few people (Lindsay, Mitch, Kelly, Emily) at the Yn bar off East. Had a couple Duvel Beers, which is probably one of the tastiest beers I’ve ever had. Except Yn has TERRIBLE glasses for this. Notice the picture.
Versus the glass they had…
This meant that the glass would up being mostly head. Had to pour extremely slowly due to this. No good.
Saturday, we had a little Surprise birthday party for Liz, which I had mentioned back in an earlier post until Kirk called me out on it and told me I had to take it out of the blog. Emily made her awesome guacamole dip before leaving for Chapel Hill, so I brought that with me and spent most of the afternoon playing cornhole or HORSE in the pool. Saturday night was depressingly boring – no takers on going out. I tried!
Sunday I got up early to help Kelly put out the tarps for Charlotte’s Pops in the Park – it was a perfect day for it. I also started a week of taking care of Gunther and Heidi while Bo and Angie are off on vacation. Although I’m normally 100% against getting up early, especially on the weekends, it ended up working out OK. Was able to get out to the pool for a little bit, met up with Lindsay and Mitch, before going to check on the dogs and get ready for Pops!
It was a great kickoff to the season. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, and you live in Charlotte, you need to check it out. The Charlotte Symphony plays a free concert over at SouthPark Mall – we usually bring a picnic out there, lots of wine, beers and snacks to share. This year, with all the economic problems, the Symphony asks for $5 donations per adult versus “Whatever you want to Donate” in years past. We did pretty well – http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/770655.html.
Yesterday (Monday) The St. Matthews (Fighting Team #2′s) played Christ Covenant Team #4. The result was not pretty, as we ended up winning by mercy rule 27-1. I finished up Reaching base four times, but I’m going to say I was 2 for 3 (First at bat, they made an error instead of catching my pop-up) with a walk a double and a “triple” that would have been an inside the park homerun if the game wasn’t already out of hand and I wasn’t trying to make it any worse.
Coming up this Friday, we’re playing Christ Covenant Team #2 at Park Road Park at 8:15 over on field #6. Hopefully it’ll be a better game for spectators! In other activities coming up, Phantom of the Opera for Emily and I on Saturday the 13th, then, next Saturday – “Evil Dead: The Musical”. Yes, I’m for real. – http://www.actorstheatrecharlotte.org/
And a word of warning to anyone who remembers the old “Worldofjay.com” site (before some stupidhead took it over after I didn’t renew it) by the request of Lindsay I might post up a few of the archives for your enjoyment. Until next time!
