List #462: 11 Things I'm Looking Forward to This Spring/ & Summer

List #462: 11 Things I'm Looking Forward to This Spring/ & Summer

1. Carleton Reunion 2011

2. Seeing some Twins games (at Camden and Target Field)

3. Game of Thrones TV show

4. "A Dance with Dragons" finally being published

5. Hannah / Daniel J. wedding

6. Disc Golf at LSC with Biscuit

7. 4th of July Pontoon Parade

8. Hanging out at Grandpa's

9. Having a visitor to MN

10. M:tG "Commander" decks

11. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Album and concert

List #455: Spring Break Plan Checklist (list 445 revisited)

List #455: Spring Break Plan Checlkist (list 445 revisited)

0. first Survive Parent Conferences -- SUCCESS!

1. Play outside with someone awesome -- SUCCESS!

2. Read all of Calvin and Hobbes -- 66% Success!

3. Yardwork -- Success!

4. see The Joy Formidable @the Black Cat -- SUCCESS!!! (and it was loud. and good!)

5. Sleep -- Not enough

6. Read more of "The Wise Man's Fear" -- Not Enough

7. Get my electric guitar fixed -- SUCCESS!

8. Play music with people -- SUCCESS!!

9. Some kind of Accomplishment -- Almost, but not. FAIL.

10. Run -- FAIL

11. Make a Pizza -- FAIL

12. Try a new thing -- SUCCESS!

List #446: Books I Brought Home for Spring Break

List #446: Books I Brought Home for Spring Break

1. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, 3 vol.

2. Totall Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything

3.The Horror, The Horror: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You To Read

4. Euphemania: Our Love Affair With Euphemisms

5. In the Empire of Ice: Encounters in a Changing Landscape

6. The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

7. The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

8. Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture

List #445: Spring Break Plans 2011

List #445: Spring Break Plans

0. first Survive Parent Conferences

1. Play outside with someone awesome

2. Read all of Calvin and Hobbes

3. Yardwork

4. see The Joy Formidable @the Black Cat

5. Sleep

6. Read more of "The Wise Man's Fear"

7. Get my electric guitar fixed

8. Play music with people

9. Some kind of Accomplishment

10. Run

11. Make a Pizza

12. Try a new thing

List #87: Favorite Baseball things

List #87: Favorite Baseball things (in no order)

1. Stolen Bases
2. 1987 World Series
3. Centerfielders (especially current and former Twins)
4. Third Base
5. Home-run stealing leaps
6. Manufacturing Runs
7. Dominating closers
8. 1991 World Series (esp. Game 2!)
9. the Metrodome
10. 2001 World Series
11. Herb Carneal and Bob Casey (RIP both voices of the Twins)
12. Tom Kelly
13. Great fielding / defense
14. Pick-offs
15. Change-ups
16. Unassisted Triple Plays
17. The Cycle
18. Ballparks with character

bonus list: Least favorite baseball things
1. Homeruns (or, rather, the focus on them)
2. 4-6-3 Double plays
3. The Yankees and the Red Sox
4. Corporate Stadium Naming