Randomness...

- Opening Day - as well as the rest of the Indians' first home stand - got canceled due to snow. In April. Much has been written about this and I won't rehash it here. I will say, however, that the cancellation did not interrupt my plans to get drunk. Sadly, I did not go to a strip club nor did I get a new nickname.

- A local Marine who did a tour of duty in Iraq threw out the first pitch at the game. (They wound up play 4 2/3 innings of the game, which means it wasn't an official game.) He was in his military uniform and had about 5 medals pinned to his chest, a few of which were Purple Hearts. He was missing an eye and had an assortment of other injuries that were apparent by his stiff movement. I stood next to him in line while waiting for the bathroom and had a pretty good conversation with him. While speaking with him, a number of people came up and thanked him for his service, which I thought was pretty cool. While I don't support our involvement in Iraq, I thanked him for his service as well. He's just a guy doing a job that a lot of people don't want to do.

I also found it quite remarkable how concerned he was with everybody else in line. He was going to use one of the stalls to change out of his uniform and he said, "I hope no one gets mad at me for taking my time in there." I told him that he could take all the time he wanted. He earned it.

- Have you ever run into an ex after not seeing them for a long time and thought - "Wow - she looks great. Maybe I should try and get back together with her" - before realizing that you two had nothing in common and that the entire time you dated all you did was watch "24" at her place on Monday nights and hook up twice a week because she lived too far way for you to keep driving down there just for sex? Um... Me neither.

- I bought a new bottle of shampoo two weeks ago because I was running low. I'm still on my original bottle. It's like Jesus blessed my bottle of shampoo to be never ending.

(Yup... that last part looks just as gay as I thought it would.)

- I'm taking a half day today because no one is in the office and I could really use some time off. My boss also bought me a bottle of wine for my birthday. Two birds, meet one stone.

- That being said, it's my birthday tomorrow. So if you know who I am and see me out tonight or tomorrow, buy me a drink or three. I'm on a big whiskey kick right now if that helps. Have a great weekend.