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Friday, September 15, 2023

Spanning the Globe

The fam is spread out. M is in Mexico City visiting a friend's parents. Anna left for Colorado to visit Emily. W&MC took the girls to upstate New York. We're in SC. Caleb is home in Atlanta.

Braves clinched the NL East championship, their 6th in a row.
Wednesday: lunch with new boss and coworker. Left work after 5:15-ish. Battled traffic over to near Perimeter Mall for a focus group. Then Dollar Tree.

Stopped by Yogli Mogley. Then gassed up the car. Got home around 8 pm. Ate the leftover Philly Chicken from Sunday. Also leftover apple crisp with ice cream. All that food didn't conquer my blues. Did some laundry and got out lots of old paint buckets to throw away in SC. Was after 11 pm before I got to bed.
Thursday: skipped the gym. Went to work early. On the way I gathered my thoughts. Good to get a few things off my chest before the weekend. Two meetings and a conference call. Team lunch at Duluth Diner. The philly chicken sandwich was better than at Marietta Diner, by far.

Left work at 1:30. Packed and hit the road by three. Stopped for (1) gas in Duluth, (2) Chickfila for Ceil in Braselton, (3) Costco in Greenville, and (4) Taco Bell in Lancaster. A seven hour trip.

We got a lot done today.  Beautiful morning. Cool. Walked two miles around Jefferson with Ceil. Saw out nephew Beau, who had just bought a house on Church Street. Stopped to talk to JayBuck Martha and Bettina, who were sitting out on their front porch. JayBuck recently turned 91. C and Bettina were childhood friends.
Ceil's brother Rusty and I cleaned out the nasty shed out behind the house. Filled with junk, dirt, ants, roaches, and numerous rats nests. Just had to start at the doorway and keep pulling stuff out and throwing it in the dumpster. Ten yards away, but I got 13000 steps in today. 

Found several treasures. More golf balls. Filled up a bucket. Tools. A vintage Dennis the Menace spoon. Vintage Pepsi glasses and bottles. Most of the stuff had been from the Miller's first house, that had burned down in early 1987. Got about 75% of the job done.
Ceil and her friend Ann worked inside. Found lots of Christmas wreaths. A base of old Cokes, in the old bottles with the name of the city on the bottom. The huge rail car-sized dumpster is almost full. 

This afternoon Ceil's Uncle Lennie fell inside his house, so we went down to help get him up and into bed. Later we had to go back and help him take his meds. Not good.

Went back and kept working out in the shed. I'm pretty tired. Took a shower. Ceil went on a walk with Kelly and Jackie.

A Pennsylvania man went to 777 movies in a single year, earning a Guinness World Record. One year back in my single days I tracked the movies I watched, and saw over 365. But 777 movies is more than 2 per day. Might've watched that many Hallmark Channel movies last year. At this point in my life that's not something I'd want to be known for. Not a very healthy lifestyle – physically, emotionally, mentally, socially, spiritually.

TED WILLIAMS [SABR Bio] is tied with Willie McCovey and Frank Thomas on the career home run list, with 521. Williams is the only AL player to hit 500 HR with fewer than 1,000 strikeouts. He holds the records for most runs batted in and most bases on balls in All-Star competition, with 12 RBI and 11 BB. In the game where he hit his 52nd career home run, the next batter (Jimmy Foxx) hit his 500th career home run. The next batter, Hall of Famer Joe Cronin, also homered. On 24-Sep-1940(1), Boston beat the Athletics 16-8 in Philadelphia. In the 6th inning Dom DiMaggio tripled and scored on a sac fly by Doc Cramer. Williams (who had already homered in the 4th) homered again. Next Jimmie Foxx: HR.  Then Joe Cronin: HR. Next Bobby Doerr tripled. Then Jim Tabor homered. Embattled pitcher George Caster was finally relieved by Les McCrabb, who surrendered a single to Johnny Peacock - who advanced to second on a sac bunt by pitcher Joe Heving. Then Dom DiMaggio drove in Peacock with a double before the final out was recorded.

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