Forty-eight years ago I was baptized, on Easter Sunday 1975. Growing up I had always gone to church and considered myself a Christian, but after I was baptized I really felt different. I tried to live a more holy life after that. Not really much of a lifestyle change as a 15 year old. In August 1975 I bought my first car, a red 1966 Ford station wagon. That fall was my first season as the starting kicker, and my high school team won the state championship. Not a bad year. But the Masters never really appeared on my radar screen until the late 1980’s.
Celebration service for Bill Murray on Sunday April 16 at the Agnes Scott chapel. The family had a private burial service out in Conyers. Bill was in a simple pine box. The family wrote messages on the box before he was buried. Bill married us 35-1/2 years ago.
BREAKING: Shivonne took her first nap in her big girl bed today.
Back when I was a kid (and sometimes even now) I will look at the designs in the water as it floats around, both with and without suds and such. As a kid I could watch it for long stretches of time.
My files are a mess. Might be moving desks in the near future, which will mean transferring my files. When C is out of town week after next I think I’m going to come to the office and clean out / organize my files. Most is personal stuff that I don’t have my own space for at work. I need a home office !!!
We received a nice thank you card from Liza & Megan for our donation to their mission trip fund. Sounds like they have exceeding their fundraising goal. At JFBC this week there are six mission trips sent out with 600 people, including lots of students.
Article: what makes Keanu Reeves so likable?
JOE PEPITONE [SABR Bio] was the first player to bring a hair dryer into the clubhouse. Shown here holding the breakthrough engineering. Hint: #1 He was the first player in the Expansion Era to homer twice in an inning. In the 8th inning on 23-May-1962 (Pepitone’s rookie season), he twice homered to right – first off Dan Pfister with none on and none out, and again off John Wyatt with two on and two out. The “Expansion Era” = 1961 forward. Joe once hit a grand slam in the first inning of a game, only to have the game rained out one batter later - 20-Jun-1969. Replayed 21-Jun-1969(1). (Pepitone was 0 for 6). Forgetting the steal sign was a wink, he once blew his third base coach a kiss when the coach repeatedly winked at him. Cubs’ base coach Joey Amalfitano confirmed this story in the August 1973 issue of “Baseball Digest”. On 29-Jun-1966 in Minnesota, after Bobby Richardson and Mickey Mantle had opened the third with solo home runs, the Twins brought in Lee Stange to relieve. Pepitone was the first batter he faced. Joe promptly hit the inning’s third consecutive home run, on of the earliest such occurrence in the Expansion Era. On 14-Oct-1964, in the 8th inning of game six of the World Series, Pepitone was the first batter to face reliever Gordie Richardson. Pepitone’s grand slam drove in baserunners Mantle, Howard & Tresh – Joe’s only postseason home run.
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