Again I Return

It’s been a few days since last I posted, and I therefore once again apologize to anyone who was having trouble maintaining their sanity without the help of my blog. My reasons for not posting are varied, but all of them have merit.

REASONS FOR NOT POSTING:

1. FLOOD - As you know (by the last post) my apartment flooded again, and as was the case before, internet access has been occassionally interrupted due to post flood circumstances. Normally, the modem in the apartment is kept in my brother’s room, but seeing as how his room sustained the most damage from the flooding, we had moved all his stuff out into the living room and surrounding areas. It took a few days to get everything set back up, and then when we did set the modem up, it was running very poorly. So I was able to sign on, but only for brief periods of time before my connection would disappear. Which actually resulted in my losing an attempt at a blog post a few days ago. At that point it was determined that the modem needed to be relocated into a better spot so that I could have uninterrupted internet again. And as you can see (by evidence of this post) this has now been accomplished.

2. BASEBALL - The other reason for my absence was that yesterday I was in San Diego for the World Baseball Cup finals between Japan and Cuba.

Originally when I found out that I would be going to the WBC finals I was extremely excited and hopeful that I would see a matchup of the United States vs. The Dominican Republic, basically the two teams with the most Major League All-Stars on their respective rosters. So, needless to say when the two teams that ended up in the finals were Japan and Cuba it took a little bit of the polish off the shine of the game.

However, being that I’m the type of guy who looks at my glass and instead of seeing it as half empty or half full just pours more of my beverage into the glass, I knew that I would have a good time no matter who was playing.

So, off I went to the great city of San Diego yesterday for the game.

In assessing the two teams, I made the decision to root for Japan (a wise one seeing as how they won). Basically, my philosophy was that if things turned rowdy and got ugly I’d rather be rooting with the people in the stadium who might know karate rather than against them.

All in all the game was pretty enjoyable, Japan jumped out to an early lead, but Cuba fought back to make it interesting up until the ninth inning when Japan put it away for good. It was rather cold out, so that was one negative, but the majority of fans were pretty in to the game so there was a lot of cheers and chanting that kept things entertaining (albeit in languages that I couldn’t understand - but then again that was part of the appeal…I will say that when those Japanese fans really get going with their chanting it is a sight to see).

So, anyways, now I’m back, and with good internet access, so I should be able to get back on schedule of updatiing you all on the goings on in my day to day existence with the usual frequency.

I’m sure you are all collectively breathing a huge sigh of relief.