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Random Rumblings

Jay Kohler — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:16:01 +0000

St. Matthews team #2 remained undefeated in style once again winning my mercy rule, 12-2 after 5 innings versus St Stephen UMC #1. Next game is Monday, @ Mason Wallace Part at 6:15pm against Living Savior Lutheran.

Had a nice little Saturday, went and laid by the pool for a few hours (gotta get ready for the sun at the Outer Banks Beach in Duck or I’ll lobsterfy myself) went to the Teeter for “Super Double Coupons” (For a few more days, they’ll double coupons up to 1.98 instead of the usual .99) and left with a treasure trove of food. Think I’m gonna do a little steak grilling tonight – got a piece of prime angus marinating right now.

And, in the TV world, catching up on Season 1 of Dexter (Showtime) – recommended. Also, if you hadn’t heard, Three Sheets will return in July on FLN, as Zane Lamprey continues to travel the world in search of places and different alcohols to drink. Set the DVR to record if you haven’t heard if it, a great show (and also a drinking game). Tomorrow, USA vs. Brazil in the Confederations Cup (on ESPN, I think at 2:45). Anyone give us a shot?

Then Pops in the Park tomorrow as well.

So, if celebrity deaths come in threes, who is the odd celebrity out (or are two more due? Or did I miss more)? David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson?

Be Careful Discussing Jackson’s Legacy on Mass Transit | They don’t make Video Game Storylines like they Used to | Thanks to Kirk for Showing me this – “Press Hop” featuring A. Iverson (Steve Porter remix) featuring Mora, Green, Namath, Gundy & T O | Obviously, there are deeper underlying issues in this relationship besides Snack Foods

Softball Keeps on Rolling

Jay Kohler — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:05:11 +0000

Chalk up another one, 24-5 win over Christ Lutheran, bringing St. Matthew’s TEam #2 to 5-0-1 on the season!

Lazy Saturday

Jay Kohler — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:38:07 +0000

Well, the softball team has another big win last night, 19-2, another Mercy Rule game – either we’ve only been scheduled to play weaker teams so far this year, or the team is just hitting and playing better this year. I’d like to think it’s the latter of the two. Not to brag, but I went 4-4 with a walk, no issues out there in left field. Next up, a 7:15 game Monday at Idlewild.

As for the rest of the day? Who knows…. it’s lazy Saturday, slept in, watched Kirk win a stay at Ceaser’s Palace in Vegas on Twitter:

1st place winners (3rd batch)@paulwaling, @jmoneyallday, @benji08, @theclairemarie & @dkirkward

Maybe I’ll head to the pool, or sit around watching The Dark Knight… have to head to the Home Depot for Father’s Day. The questions is, what to get? But that’s why I love Home Depot, walk around for a little while and you’ll have to decide what NOT to get him (as well as what you can and can’t afford to get for yourself).

Then a little showing of Evil Dead: The Musical at Actor’s Theatre and then we might be headed to Connolly’s on 5th in Charlotte afterward (haven’t decided yet) but they have:

Hunt for a Cure @ Connolly’s
Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009 – 3:00 PM

Hunt for a Cure Charity Event at Connolly’s on Saturday, June 20th starting at 3pm. Pig Pickin, Cornhole Tournament (please email lu.ulma@gmail.com to sign up), Live Band, DJ WoJo, 50/50 Raffle & more… Please email HuntforCure@gmail.com for more information & find out how you can help!

So at least it would be getting a few drinks for a good cause.

All the news for now, perhaps I’ll see you uptown later tonight. You can also follow me on Twitter through: @worldofjay

Until next time…

Softball Weekend Preview

Jay Kohler — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:52:03 +0000

Quick Hits!

Softball tonight, Park Road Park, 8:15 against Sharon UMC

Tomorrow – Evil Dead: The Musical! At the Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte

Sunday – Father’s Day – going with Dad and the brother to play a little golf at Ballentyne

Weekend Recap

Jay Kohler — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:21:10 +0000

Been a crazy couple of days! Kicked things off Friday with a softball game that was called due to rain after 6 innings. St. Matthews ended up tied with Christ Covenent Team #2, 11-11. Since Tommy was out, I ended up hitting leadoff and went 2 for 5.

Saturday, we had quite the night. After a morning of taking care of Gunther and Heidi, Emily and I headed uptown and had lunch at Zink. Pretty good food, ended up filling me up quickly – only had room for the pita-hummas appitizer and half of my pulled pork sandwich. Still a very nice place to go eat and have a drink before…

DUHHHHHHHHHHH DUH DUH DUH DUH Dahhhhhhhhhhhh

The Phantom of the Opera was back in Charlotte, I haven’t seen it in a long time, long enough to not remember half of the plot, and Emily loves the show so it worked out perfectly. Our seats were in the Orchestra section, left side, very close to the stage, really good seats – we were able to see everything. I thought the production was done very well, impressed by Christine, a little let down by the Phantom – but not his singing, his acting was a bit on the hammy side. I thought the Phantom was supposed to be all badass and cool and all furious when Christine took his mask off, but this Phantom decided that losing his mask meant he was supposed to stumbled around like she blinded him or something. Still, a great show.

Afterwards, we met friends over at Nikko’s Uptown for Katie’s sushi birthday dinner, Emily was getting a bit tired after that and headed home (we had drinks before Phantom, drinks after Phantom at PJ’s, drinks at the bar at Nikko’s, drinks during dinner – she was probably the smarter person to stop there) while I decided to continue the party. We moved the party to Mez uptown and then, finally, the XYZ bar located in aLoft uptown. Somehow, I found my way to an ATM and a taxicab and headed home to pass out. Good birthday times – and I know Jon has some ridiculous pictures that I’ll have to link to once he uploads.

Sunday – woke up feeling pretty bad – although I have felt much worse. And I decided to work through the hangover by using…. manual labor. Mom & Dad were extending a retaining wall in their backyard so I was brought in to move and place the 80-lb blocks. Amazingly, this seemed to help me sweat out the leftover booze and left me feeling better. Then it was back home for a little studying before Pops in the Park. “Magical Night Music” was the theme, definitly some good stuff. Theme from Harry Potter, Pirates of the Carribbean – my favorite was Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. You know it from many different cartoons (Donald Duck – Daffy Duck dueling pianos in Who Framed Roger Rabbit).

Monday was full of work and studying, we had another softball game that didn’t end in a tie, but like the game the previous Monday, it got ugly quick. Ended up beating Morningstar Lutheran something like 41-6. They played the whole game a man short and didn’t have many hitters on the team (but the ones who could hit, smashed some serious HRs) I think I wound up 5 of 5 or something, and that includes the two times I came up to bat and TRIED to get out. Not the best fielders.

Tuesday was my test, and Jon Harding and I started another home brew. I believe it’s based off Rouge Hazelnut Brown. I’ll be posting my thoughts on our current brew, Dante’s Honey Whear Beerferno soon and I’ll have to coin a name for the batch that’s currently fermenting.

Whew, sorry for the novel, but now I’m caught up and will remember to post more frequently so I don’t have to jam everything into a huge post.

Weekend Update

Jay Kohler — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:03:33 +0000

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!

Game One: 11-10 Victory

Jay Kohler — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:36:33 +0000

Well, St. Matthews #2 got off to a 1-0 start on the softball season, defeating St. Luke #1, 11-10 in seven innings. It was a close one. Yours truely went 2 for 4 with two triples, including what wound up being the game winning hit (what follows is Jay patting himself on te back and stroking his own ego. Fair warning). With the team down 10-8 going into the bottom of the seventh, St. Matthew would up scoring one run, and putting men on first and second (or first and third, who can remember) with two outs. 10-9 now. And so I found myself batting with the game on the line. But after hearing the other team call their outfielders to come in closer, I hit the first pitch deep to Left-Center field over the outfielder’s head and the two runners on base scored easily as I stumbled my way around second base, pretty excited about our come from behind victory.

Next game is thie Friday, again at Idlewild Park at 6:15pm, hopefully we can keep the wins coming.

Play Ball!

Jay Kohler — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:19:53 +0000

After a perfect weekend, the work week starts once again – and the busy summer gets busier – the St. Matthew’s Team #2 softball season starts tonight, with a contest at 7:15pm @ Idlewild Park. I have a good feeling about this upcoming season, and I’ll try to keep this site up to date with how the team is doing.

Weekend was great – finally a good patch of weather, Emily and I got out to the pool on Saturday and Sunday for a little while. Saturday night we went to dinner at Del Friscos, which was fantastic. Emily won a contest at work by being the most productive team member so we spent basically all her prize money there. Steak was delicious and Emily has an excellet martini. Apparently they soaked pineapple in the vodka, and then after a few weeks, they squeeze the pineapple chunks and strain using a cheesecloth. Result? Awesome.

Then we met up with friends at M5 in South Park, I had a couple beers, and we headed home. I surprised Emily with tickets to the June 13th, 2:00pm showing of Phantom of the Opera – looking forward to that!

Also going on in this crazy summer, I have my first Exam for summer school tomorrow, haircut Wednesday, class again Thursday, another softball game Friday, more pool-ing on Saturday, Pops in the Park Sunday and we’re back to Monday again. Time flies…