The summer moves on, and with it the Saints season. I realized this morning that there are just three short homestands left, plus whatever playoffs the Saints qualify for. That’s not all that much baseball, but there’s some major tailgating remaining to be done. The middle homestand includes my birthday, PETA night, and the last Sunday day-game. The other two Sundays are going to be evening games. I’m not sure why, but that seems notable.
And why was it this morning that I realized that? Well, part of it is that rather than go straight to bed after last night’s game, I stayed up and emptied most of the tailgating junk out of my truck. My Cargo Caddy arrived via UPS yesterday, and I’m hoping to get it installed in the truck sometime this week. But that means that I was up late, which means waking up late, so it’s going to be a link-poor morning. But I excused myself for oversleeping, thinking to myself There aren’t many more home stands left.
And there we are.
- The two storage systems I looked at for my truck that I didn’t buy were the StorageMax, which wouldn’t have fit and the Weather Guard, which seems a little more industrial than I really need. The Cargo Caddy that I went with should fit, though it may be a very tight fit, and I’ll probably have more later in the week once I’ve got it in place. I mention them here because it took forever to track down these three products, when I figured I should just be able to google for Chevy Blazer storage accessory and find them right out of the gate. Hopefully this post will rectify that problem.
- Yesterday I mentioned the magic phrase
unintended consequences
which brought a story of Parachuting Cats to the mind of one of my readers. Now the folks hosting the info and the pdf file think they know how to predict consequences, but in complex systems, no one knows what the consequences are. I think it’s a tricky business overall, and that’s just one of the reasons I would prefer a smaller government that wouldn’t try so hard tohelp
. - Also speaking of unintended consequences, Scott says Maybe Less is More when it comes to regulation of the
hospitality industry
. I agree that the fact that it’s hard to come by a new liquor license may be part of the reason there are fewer non-smoking bars in town, leading to the city council to ban smoking. And so the spiral continues…. [scott mcgerik] - One feature of the Democratic convention in Boston that didn’t get a lot of attention was the Little Dachau they set up and called a
free speech zone
. This one was a pretty fun rant. I’m looking forward to seeing what gets set up in New York next month. And in spite of all the noise about the accredited bloggers at the convention, most of the coverage of the cage I saw was from folks who just happen to live in Boston and didn’t have passes inside the Fleet. [endwar]