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Kickball and charity

Last night was a charity kickball game here in Birmingham. The local kickball “league” challenged the staff of the restaurant where the after parties are held to a match. The game started at 7:00 PM and was refereed by Chuck Geiss. Rojo, the restaurant, was raising money for Sharrif Simmons. The Kickball Allstars were raising money for the Greater Birmingham Humane Society.

Now kickball is usually an excuse to play in the park and have social time with folks. The charity matches are evidently no different. Given the heat, everyone was very glad the games wasn’t starting until 7PM. There were water balloons o’ plenty being heaved at at all and sundry on the field. The cups were present on the field and coolers are required gear. If you haven’t noticed, the game is only part of the attraction of kickball here in Birmingham. The players pay $10.00 to play the game, and the spectators are asked for donations as well at the charity games. The money from the players and the spectator donations are kept separate and the winning team’s charity receives the larger of the collections, and the losing team’s charity receives the smaller of the collections.

In the end, the valiant efforts of the Kickball Allstars was not enough to fend off the efforts of Rojo. So Sharrif Simmons will receive the larger of the monies raised. I have no idea how much was actually raised, but I know Sharrif Simmons is thankful for for any help he receives. He was robbed and shot in May of this year, and has had several surgeries. He will need more before he is well and, like many other artists, he is without health insurance. He has a long way to go yet. Check out the myspace page that is helping Sharrif out and give what you can.

My thanks to the Terminal and their timely reminder about kickball. Otherwise I would have stayed home last night and been a veg.

Need funnies, got ICHS

Ok, I’m grumpy enough. Time for a funny. When in need, go to I Can Has Cheeseburger.

This one struck my fancy tonight. I always was a fan of Bugs Bunny taking that left toin at Albakoicky.

Pirate name

I have a pirate name. Generated randomly from the ether. And it is, Drumroll please…

Bloody Left Eye Lisa

Let’s hear it for Pirate mania! That was courtesy of Blogthings Pirate Name Generator.

If you’re wondering

what the previous weirdness was, I found the BLITEOTW site late Wednesday night. It was a blog site that started the zombipocalypse idea. The main idea of the thing was to have everybody who wanted to participate blog all day about zombies taking over their corner of the world. And as I have a bit of haunted house experience, that was just too fun and silly not to take up. I just hate that I didn’t find out about it until too late in the day to take real advantage of the entire meme. There are some really great blogs out there linked to the site with fantastic setups that are really great writing. They set up the situations very plausibly and keep up very real seeming situations. I need to find and post some of the links to the bloggers whose stories were the best.

Weirdness at Wal-Mart

Man, when they say that the crazies come out to Wal-Mart, they aren’t kidding! Obviously there’s not much to do in rural areas, but this was ridiculous. I had errands to run south of town, so as I was driving back up the highway past a Wal-Mart parking lot, I couldn’t help but see how full it was. There were banners up for the Grand Opening. And it looked like everyone from the 3 surrounding counties were there with their SUVs parked. But the weirdest part was the crowd in the parking lot. Over in the area near the garden center was a group of about 50 to 75 people, just ambling in a confused mob. They looked a mess, even from the distance of the highway. I was stopped at the traffic light there, and it was just an odd vibe that the group gave off. A few of them started headed toward the highway, but the lights changed and I headed home.

Now some folks who aren’t familiar are starting to walk through the neighborhood. Its another odd thing for this late tonight.

Just weirdness.

Played Kickball today

Oh my. This 40 year old has got a bit of game left. I scored a couple of runs today.

The kickball games started today after 3:00 PM and it was still pretty hot. DH took us to the games on his bike. We got there and I saw some folks from before. I paid for us to play and signed us up for teams. There ended up being enough people to have 4 teams. So DH and I played on the second set of teams. I can still kick ok, and field ok. I took a few tumbles today, though. I’m going to be one very hurting puppy tomorrow, though. I have taken Aleve and I hope that I’ll be in decent shape by Tuesday.

Valentine’s Day 2007

Is going to be pretty much like most every other Wednesday here at chez geekgirl. That’s ok. DH is thinking about a menu for us, and we’ll avoid the craziness that the local restaurant scene is bound to be. I have no wish to wait 1.5 hours for a table at a local restaurant and get harried service while trying to enjoy a nice dinner.

And forget the weeds for Vday too. Have you looked at the price of flowers in February? Its nuts! So skip ‘em until they are in season and it isn’t so outrageously expensive. God bless the florists and delivery folks who are working major amounts of overtime right now. It is really going to be a bad day for a co-worker of mine. His mother passed away over the weekend and the funeral is tomorrow. The office is sending flowers. I’m scared of what that bill will be.

A fairly quiet night at home is on tap.  And it will be good.  Good company, good food, a cat on the lap, and that’s what I’m looking forward to tomorrow.

What is on tap for you?

Alton Brown is fun!

I’m a food network junkie. And my hero is Alton Brown. He’s matter of fact, silly, scientific foodie! His show, Good Eats, was on tonight and he was working with lentils. We don’t use lentils very often, so it was interesting to see what he did with them. And the second episode tonight about pocket pies was fun. Its obvious that the crew of the show has way too much fun working on those episodes. Check out AB and see what you think!

Its inconceivable!

Bravo network is showing The Princess Bride again. Its one of my favorite movies, and DH and I are sitting here watching it again. The dry humor in it is so amusing. Robin Wright Penn, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Andre the Giant, Wallace Shawn, and so many others are in it. The movie is SO quotable. “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya, you kill my father, prepare to die.” Its got pirates, sword fighting, chases, escapes, death, and true love.  What else can you ask for from a  movie?