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About my well-paved road to hell...

[Note: you may want to go ahead and defrost that Thanksgiving turkey, as it's been a wile since my last post.] OK, it was my good intention to live up to the list I shared "way back when". Specifically, the kitchen back splash job , aka the inspiration for starting this site. OK, so some things got in the way, starting with the landscape light project, which BTW was initially slated for summer '06 until the in-laws had delivered the jungle gym, unassembled, in eight boxes in my driveway. (There was also the whole thing about needing an electrical feed to the outside of the house, as featured in the 7.30.2007 post.) And the fine-tuning therein, adding lights (see 7.31.2007 ). For those of you visiting this site frequently, you saw the progression of the light arrangement in the sidebar, as I posted shots after each addition. It's pretty much stable now, so you can register the current shot to memory. What you can't see are the adjoining wires that still need

Milestones

So, we baseball folk are in some kind of crossroads as to whom we pledge our allegiance as the latest heroes chase their respective milestones. Barry is chasing THE most celebrated milestone, and A-Rod is chasing a milestone that will lead to THE milestone, and given his relative youth, and subsequently may force Barry to pull a Jim Brown (circa 1984) inside of 6 years. And Tom Glavine is at career win #299, an increasingly fleeting milestone. The pundits say that a today's hitters chances at getting to the 500 HR milestone are considerably better than any current pitcher's chance at winning 300 games. Recent approaches and surpassing of 500 HRs, comparatively, in this era are proof positive. Said statement does not influence the focus of a game and how a ball game is and ever will be celebrated. Remember the commercial in the late '90s when Atlanta Braves pitching greats Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine had to learn to hit home runs to make an impression on some lady f