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Chicago is my kind of town.

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shoo
on 4/24/2007
in Baseball, Cardinals, Friends and Mrs. Shoo
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Chicago would be my kind of town if it were the home of the Cardinals and the rent was much much much cheaper. GTG and I had a wonderful time up north this past weekend enjoying baseball games, getting the real taste of Chicago, and drinking a Fat Tire or two. All except the part where we got peanuts thrown at us after the Cubs vs. Cardinals game. Could have been worse, I guess.

Ed and Amanda thanks for your hospitality and Nintendo Wii! The Wii is so cool! Ed, I am training up on tennis so next time we can have a real competition.

I’ve uploaded a few pictures from the trip Got to stop blogging late at night.

It was a perfect trip till I pulled out of the garage and “scuffed” GTG’s spankin’ brand new car’s bumper on the trim of the garage door. Her expression was almost as sad as taking the head off of a Barbie in front of a eight year old. Needless to say, I apologized a million times. Looking to get it fixed next week.

Pics from the trip have been uploaded.

Arch.

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shoo
on 4/5/2007
in Cardinals and Mrs. Shoo
. 6 Comments

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GTG and I took an afternoon trip down to St. Louis. We went to the top of the Arch, ate at the Spaghetti Factory, and watched a Card’s game. More photos later.

I found out that I have dust specks on my lens.

Flash puppys.

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shoo
on 1/4/2007
in Cardinals and General
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SOOOOOOOoooOOOOOOooOO

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shoo
on 10/31/2006
in Baseball, Cardinals and General
. 3 Comments

I stole this from Taly’s Facebook.

World Series.

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shoo
on 10/29/2006
in Cardinals and General
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Keiner Plaza Fountain

Originally uploaded by Fredbird.

I’ve been judging speech competitions and celebrating a World Series victory, so I haven’t had much time to blog. Yes, the Cardinals are now the World Series Champions. Which sounds weird because the only other country in the MLB is Canada. But alas, they are the World Series Champions.

It was great to see the Cardinals win it. I didn’t think they would go all the way, and the majority of the fans would have counted them out as well in September. They were truly the underdog that came out on top.

What’s different between 04′ and the 06′ World Series? Obviously a trophy, but the whole team was in it to win. Pitching with Suppan, Weaver, Carpenter. Batting with Eckstein, Molina, and Rolen.

It was great to see Eckstein get MVP and a brand new ZO5 Corvette. The back story on Eckstein is that during the 06′ season he was still driving his parents Ford Contour. The Vette would be his first real car!

I wish I could have been there, but it was great to see my team win it!

Blowin’ stuff up, watchin’ the game, drinkin’ a cold one.

Published
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shoo
on 10/26/2006
in Beer, Cardinals, Geeky and General
. 8 Comments

Tonight was a nice relaxing game. I put the finishing touches on a side project (out of work) that I had been working on for months. Okay, maybe there were some interruptions in those months like moving, taking a few trips, seeing a few baseball games. For now, it is done till they break it.

Talking about baseball, Cardinal haters warm up those comment fingers, the Cards take another from Detroit. They now lead the series 3-1. If you have been paying attention to the stats they keep throwing out on ESPN, out of the 3 times the Tigers and Cardinals have met in the World Series, the team that wins game 4 - loses the series. They even brought up that the last time St. Louis was ahead 3-1 in the WS was in 1985 with the Royals, and the Royals came back to win the series.

I thought you were a Cardinal fan? Why all this negative stats talk?

Why? Because I don’t believe that stats and beer sales control the game. And that the tickets for tonight’s game were for Game 5. Game 4, going by what was printed on the ticket will be played tomorrow because of Wednesday’s rain out. I do believe in a higher power though.

During the game, I also loaded Windows Vista Ultimate on my laptop. The 64bit version. It took me a while to determine if I could install the 64bit version. I have a Athlon 64bit processor, but the whole time I had been running the 32bit version of XP Home. It worked.

The OS feels like the first time you date someone. They look hot, but everything is awkward and not everything is cohesive. Vista is definitely graphic intensive. A lot has been done with the integration of multimedia. It ran a little sluggish at times on my laptop and had a horrible time streaming recorded tv shows from my desktop. Again though, it is a beta. I think it will bring some of the spotlight back to the pc which has been outshined lately by the Mac and its OS.

Beer. Tonight I had a Boulevard Pale Ale. Excellent. A-, the Fat Tires are still sitting in the fridge. I am waiting for something special… Maybe game 5 4?

I want you to blog me.

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shoo
on 10/25/2006
in Blatant Recollections, Buddy, Cardinals, Deep Thoughts, General and Old Man Stuff
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What-a-week! The Starbucks lady set the tone for the rest of the week, for sure. I haven’t been able to keep up with myself, needless to say, my girlfriend, house, dog, or this blog.

GTG caught my sickness from last week and has been miserable with a stuffy head. I’ve tried to make it up to her by making a late night delivery bringing her cough drops, chocolate milk, and NyQuil. Not even the Cardinals pushing ahead with 5-0 victory last night could cure her stuffiness.

My house is a mess. Just plain and simple. (Mostly contained in the kitchen)
Buddy… that dog. He was wired like Frankenstien last night. He was behaving oddly the whole night. Not able to sit still for more than 30 seconds and barking at everything within a 30′ radius. I later discovered that he was poppin’ pills. He had tore open a package of cold pills. Must have had the doggy sniffles. Well, he took one too many and was up till 3am! And guess who was up with him? Me. I am draggin’ tail today - that’s why. BTW, he is doing fine, pills finally wore off.

I have sat down 5 other times this week to write some kind of post. Each time: delete.

World Series BABY!

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shoo
on 10/20/2006
in Cardinals and General
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I wish I could post something more than the Cardinals are going to the WORLD SERIES! But alas, my stuffy snot head can’t think of anything more than “WORLD SERIES!”

NLCS Tonight

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shoo
on 10/11/2006
in Baseball, Cardinals and General
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Wikipedia entry for the NLCS.

Question: Who won the NLCS in 1994?

Time: 7:19 CST, Fox
Probable pitchers: Weaver (STL), Glavin (NYM)

Update: Postponed till tomorrow because of rain; Amanda can now watch HD dancing with the stars.

My name is Shoo, and I have black boogers.

Published
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shoo
on 10/8/2006
in Blatant Recollections, Buddy, Cardinals and General
. 9 Comments

First of all, it is bad karma to blog during an intense playoff game. This post is being brought to you after the Cardinals sent the Padres packing for San Diego! I am a happy Cardinal fan. My dog is a happy Cardinal puppy, even though he passed out after the fourth inning. I don’t blame him though because that was an intense first inning! I have a happy Cardinal GF. A GF, who is sometimes a Yankees fan, who was happy the Tigers have moved on to face the A’s. I am still speechless.
Now on to bore you with my ordinary life, doing ordinary things…

Like installing insulation in my attic / 2nd floor. Before buying my house, I thoroughly inspected every part of it. One of the bullet points on the bad list was the paper mache insulation in the attic. The stuff seriously looked like it could be starter fuel for the grill. If it is the age of the house, it is 50-60 years old.

Time for improvement.

I had SteveO come over Saturday to give me a hand. What a lifesaver! We pulled out the old stuff and put the new stuff in in about 5 hours. If I had done it myself, I would have been up there for a day and a half.

Ohh… so the title of this post. Part of installing insulation is that it sucks, and you breathe in a lot of nasty stuff and take about 5 years off of your life. Of course you wear long sleeves, pants, a hat, gloves, and a face mask, but the gunk still gets into your system. Before we got too in-depth into the process, Steve told me to just wait to see the black boogers. Like a seven year old hearing a playground rumor, I didn’t know to take it as hear-say or the truth that you get mutated black boogers.

Steve and I break for lunch, and he tells me that I might want to wash my face off. Gunk still gets around your face mask and collects near the nasal passage. I wash my face and have to blow my nose. Sure enough. BLACK BOOGERS!

GTG is getting annoyed about the story. I told everyone and my mom about it this weekend.

this post has been edited and approved by GTG.