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MLB.com News Story - Tulowitzki vindicates self in 22nd inning

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WOW... 22 innings that is quite a game. I Personally was watching the Avs beat the Wild in game 5 of the play-offs and missed this...

Tulowitzki vindicates self in 22nd inning
April 18th, 2008
Thomas Harding / MLB.com


Troy Tulowitzki's two-out double in the top of the 22nd inning gave the Rockies a 2-1 victory over the Padres in the longest game in the history of both franchises on Thursday night/Friday morning at PETCO Park in front of 25,985 fans.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20080417&content_id=2543145&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

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Man what a week...

It has been quite a busy week and it is not even over with yet...

Friday, 11 April - Cold and snowy today. Got tickets for Sundays Sky Sox Game... Looking forward to opening weekend. Tried to pick-up some box seat tickets the Sox are donating to the school, but they can't be located. Pack Pinewood derby prep. Spent most of the afternoon and evening at Sand Creek High School setting up track, weighing cars etc. Home 10:00pm

Saturday, 12 Apr -Up at 6:00 A.M. and off to Sand Creek High School. Races start at 8:30 AM and of course I am the M.C. Race goes until about 11:00 AM... Assisted with clean-up. Again, the same handful of parents help... Getting a bit tired of this scout stuff. Off to birthday party at Skate City at noon lasts until 2:00 P.M. Home for a quick nap the out for dinner.

Sunday, 13 Apr - The wife heads off early this morning to Fort Worth, TX for another class for work. Only two more or so to go. The boy and I head off with friends (the Waller's) to Sky Sox for opening weekend. Double header today due to the first game of the season being canceled due to "wind chill" (never heard that before). Sunny today, it's only in the high sixties but feels warmer. Looks like the Rockies stole most of the good players this year, as I only recognize a few names on the field. Great seats on the third base line "right on the rail". Sox with one loss and one win. Tried to pick up donated tickets after the game, still a no go.

Game #1 L Tacoma, 7-11, Game #2 W Tacoma, 6-1

Monday, 14 Apr - Man I feel like dookie today. Probably dehydrated from being outside yesterday, and my face is sunburned (yes, I put on sun block). Got a ton of Scout stuff done today, but it doesn't feel like much. Scheduled an appointment with a veteran's employment counselor to help look for a new job, so that's some thing.

Tuesday, 15 Apr - Finally got the tickets for the four box seats for the school. Going to give them away Saturday at the school carnival in a sports basket. Thanks to Mr. Eddy, Sky Sox Community Relations, for the donation. Drop them off at the school along with a few items we borrowed for the Pinewood derby. Back home to coordinate some last minute details for a Cub Scout Roundup (recruiting drive) we are having next week at the school. Pride Assembly at the school @ 2:50 PM, the boy wasn't recognized this time for anything, but I still like to go.

Wednesday, 16 Apr - I wake up with one of the worst headaches I think I've had in recent history. Maybe I am still dehydrated. Not good news as I have an appointment with my employment counselor today at 10:30. After a late start and some Aleve I drop the boy off at school and head of for my appointment. Appointment went really well. A lot of options. My counselor is really nice. Resume is good. Might try some free training to help look for a good job. Headed off to Peterson, AFB commissary for some grub. Then finally home after picking up the boy from the bus.

Today, 17 Apr - A bit of cold weather and snow this morning caused a two hour school delay. After getting the boy off to school I spent most of the day cleaning the house. It wasn't that bad, but the wife will be home tomorrow night and I know the house wasn't up to "standards". Sky Sox would like to set-up the school with a new reading program they are doing this year where they donate tickets for a certain amount of time spent reading, so I sent that off to the school. Decided to have a bit of fun tonight and the boy and I went to the swimming pool on Peterson AFB for family night.

Getting Caught Up...

Well I am just going to post the rest of the Vegas photos here to try and get caught up.  I had planned to give a nice long narrative on each day, but I just have not had time to update everything, and I don't think anyone really reads this thing anyway.

 

 

I haven't forgotten you!

O.K. folks I have not forgotten you. I know I am WAY behind on my updates, but I have been sooo busy, I know I keep using that as an excuse, but it’s true. Pinewood Derby, Scouts, Summer Camp planning, etc has kept me busy. I’ll try for some type of update tomorrow afternoon after an appointment I have about getting a new job.

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Las Vegas Trip Day 2

Welcome back to the Thuis Blog Time Machine. Today we go back nearly 2 weeks to Monday, March 24, 2008.  Back to our trip to Las Vegas.

As you remember we spent last night in Grand Junction, Colorado.  Today it's early to rise as we start the 508 mile (or so) second leg of the road trip.  We hope to make Las Vegas before dinner time, so after an overpriced breakfast buffet at the hotel (the only thing I didn't like about the hotel), we are off.

The beginning of our drive is through Utah.  I tell you what, nothing is more desolate than the first couple hundred mile of this drive.  I don't ever remember seeing signs saying, "Get your gas now! 120 miles until next services.", but we see them now.  The scenery is enough to keep us entertained.  The drive is beautiful, and we stop a few times to take in the breathtaking views.

We stop in a town called Richfield and have lunch at a restaurant called Wingers.  The appearance of this place is deceiving.  Outside this looks like a fast food place, but inside we find a full restaurant.  The food was GREAT. I had a steak sandwich, that was delicious even though it would make a cardiologist stand up and take notice.

Back on the road we don't stop until we hit the Nevada border. After a quick stop in Mesquite, Nevada we finally arrive in Las Vegas around 4:00 PM. For the duration of this trip we will be staying at the Embassy Suites Convention Center Las Vegas.  This is a very nice hotel.  Probably tiny by Las Vegas standards, but big enough for us.  NO casino but this is where the wife's class is being held so we couldn't this of any better place.

After getting cleaned up a bit and changing clothes (it is now in the upper 70's and we showed up in blue jeans and sweat shirts), we decide to hit the town.  So after a short break at the hotel bar for FREE drinks and snacks, we head on out.

For the first night we decide to go and see the fountains at the Bellagio and then find some place for dinner.  We decide that we will take the monorail downtown, but the desk clerk convinces us to drive, park at Caesar's Palace, and walk "next door" to see the show.  Well the drive was not as bad as anticipated, but parking at Caesar's was a huge mistake.  I am pretty sure we got "lost" once we entered the Casino, because it took us forever to find a way to get out of Caesar's and get "outside" to get to the Bellagio.  Though at the time we didn't really care and tried to consider it an adventure.  Finally, finding our way to the fountains we watched the show.  This really is a "must do" when visiting Vegas because the show is great and best of all it's free.

The show is finally over and it's about 8:00 PM and we decide we really need to get some dinner (mistake #2).  But where to go and how the heck do we get back to the car?  After "getting lost" again in Caesar's getting back to the car, we decide to find someplace to eat in the hotel.  Anyway, long story short, after searching around and some "heated" discussion, we end up getting some overpriced, crummy pizza slices and eat it in the car.

Back to the hotel.  The boy wants to hit the pool, and you'll hear no complaints from me.  After the drive and all the initial walking I want to hit the Hot Tub.  Upon entering the hotel we find out that the hotel is changing their boiler tonight so no water tonight after 11:00 PM until 5:00 am.  No big deal we'll be sleeping.  We change, hit the pool for about an hour.  Get cleaned up, fill the fridge with some drinking water and head off to bed.

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Cubmaster Chris - An Hour A Week? Cub Scout Podcast - An Hour A Week? #139

Lazy and Busy

O.K. I know I started to write about Vegas and then just stopped.  Last week was much busier than anticipated, and to be honest when I wasn't busy I just didn't feel like turning on a computer and typing anything on this blog.

So, hopefully, I can finish up the Vegas trip stuff here in the next couple of days.  In the mean time, here's an update of some of the "bigger" items that happened last week.

So, let's see... Monday through Wednesday.  Not much significant (that I can remember) to report.  Worked around the house, and tried to keep the boy entertained on his second week of Spring break.  On Wednesday night "the boy" had one of his buddies stay over night.

Thursday,  the boy, his buddy, and I head off to the public library to do some research for an animal report the kids are working on in school.  Michael's friend was totally against this at first saying "Homework and libraries are for nerds and geek's".  But this guy soon got into the whole process of research and took home more information on his animal, the Gibbon, than the boy, whose animal is the sponge.

Friday we headed off to the butterfly pavilion near Denver. Now I'd like to say this was for fun, but it wasn't.  The school is having a science fair and the boy is doing an experiment that involves butterflies.   The Butterfly Pavilion was nice enough to let us come in, free of charge, and spend 2.5 hours conducting the boys experiment.  It was kind of fun, but sitting in a 85 degree (at least) room with 100% humidity for that long was a bit of a challenge for all of us.

 

Saturday, the wife spent the morning going door to door campaigning for our friend Mark Waller.  I got to stay home and watch the kids.  I am not sure who got the better end of that deal.  The boy did go over to a buddies house for a sleep over, but ended coming home at midnight when he "couldn't fall asleep".

Sunday, off to wonderful Limon, Colorado for the annual High Plains District awards dinner (Cub Scouts).  I've personally have no issue with Limon, but the hour plus drive with nothing to look at but fields is a bit of a challenge.  The dinner was small but very nice.  Heck, I even won a District Level award for the stuff I've done this year, so not bad at all.

Tonight we had our first Den meeting of the month.  This months theme is Abracubdabra and deals with magic.  So tonight each boy learned three magic rope tricks.  I think they had fun.