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Go Saugus Go!

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Saugus plays tonight for the US Little League Championship. If they win, they play tomorrow for the Little League World Series Championship.

I got my fingers crossed and will be watching the game…

Route 1, which makes up Saugus’s floodlit spine, has drawn streams of residents from all over town on game nights, where they pile into the warehouse-sized restaurants and cheer on the boys. They come from the old east side, where the now-famous Little League team hails from, and the tonier developments of the west side. Five hundred people gathered around televisions at Prince Pizzeria & Bar, 400 mobbed the upstairs at the Frank Guiffrida’s Hilltop Steak House, and 200 watched at Kowloon restaurant. By the improbable end of the game, when Saugus rallied with four runs to beat Richmond, Texas, by a single run in extra innings, old ladies were hoarse.

“I almost had a heart attack,” said Chris Moore, who is 12. “I ran outside my house and started yelling, `Honk for Saugus.’ It was crazy. I almost died.”

After the game, 2,000 honking, waving fans poured into the town’s central square, said Saugus Police Lieutenant Mike Annese. Yesterday, in the crowd’s wake, a bronze Union soldier was decorated with a baseball glove, a Little League poster and a jersey in team colors. The crowd’s energy “burst” almost as soon as it gathered, Annese said.

“They were happy to the point where they wanted to be with someone other than themselves,” he said. [Boston Globe]

Dooce’s Weblog

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Heather [Dooce] is one of the best weblogs out there. She causes me fits of laughter every time she posts!

Since Heather’s site doesn’t ping weblogs.com or blo.gs, it doesn’t pop up on my new fangled devices and I have to remember to go to the site by hand every so often. It’s probably been at least a month since I remembered and it’s been far too long so I’m posting this as a reminder to myself.

The Dooce is the best personal website, period, and my all-time favorite weblog. I can’t get enough of it and I wish I could write one tenth as funny as she does every day.

[A Whole Lotta Nothing]

When I’m Gone

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here’s another world inside of me that you may never see.
There’s secrets in this life that I can’t hide.
Somewhere in this darkness there’s a life that I can’t find.
Maybe it’s too far away or maybe I’m just blind, maybe I’m just blind.

So hold me when I’m here right me when I’m wrong.
Hold me when I’m scared and love me when I’m gone.
Everything I am and everything in me
Wants to be the one you wanted me to be.
I’ll never let you down even if I could.
I’d give up everything if only for your good.

So hold me when I’m here right me when I’m wrong.
You can hold me when I’m scared but you won’t always be there,
So love me when I’m gone, love me when I’m gone
When your education x-ray cannot see under my skin.
I won’t tell you a damn thing that I could not tell my friends.

Now roaming through this darkness I’m alive but I’m alone.
Part of me is fighting this but part of me is gone.
So hold me when I’m here right me when I’m wrong.
Hold me when I’m scared and love me when I’m gone.

Everything I am and everything in me.
Wants to be the one you wanted me to be,
Ill never let you down even if I could.
I’d give up everything if only for your good.

So hold me when I’m here right me when I’m wrong
You can hold me when I’m scared, you won’t always be there,
So love me when I’m gone.
(Maybe I’m just blind)

So hold me when I’m here right me when I’m wrong.
Hold me when I’m scared and love me when I’m gone.
Everything I am and everything in me,
Wants to be the one you wanted me to be.

I’ll never let you down even if I could.
I’d give up everything if only for your good.
So hold me when I’m here right me when I’m wrong.
You can hold me when I’m scared, you won’t always be there.
So love me when I’m gone, love me when I’m gone.

Boston Cabbies to get Etiquette Lessons

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This is damn impressive. I’ve always been happy with NYC cab drivers, but the Boston cab drives are clearly the worst that I’ve had the displeasure of riding with.

NYC did it right. Looks like we’re finally taking a different approach. Thank god.

BOSTON, Aug. 22 %u2014  Say ìpleaseî and ìthank you.î Dress nice, and try not to run any stop lights or make offensive comments.Those are the lessons that the city of Boston and Democratic organizers are hoping the cityís 5,500 cabbies learn before next summerís presidential convention. []

Light Blogging

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Been pretty busy over here. Couple parties and gathering to goto, some major real job stuff going on, and some family funnies happening once again. Bloggin will be light through the weekend.

Off for some 6:30am golf tomorrow!

iPod & iTrip

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Picked up the iTrip device today at MicroCenter in Cambridge. I had been using a different radio transmitter for my iPod, but this one is so much sleeker and easier to use, I couldn’t resist.

Now my iPod is in the process of syncing with my Mac Desktop G4 instead of my windows computer. Much faster and iTunes provides for better customization of music I think. Sides, I’m pretty much a Mac exclusive user at home now, so may as well do it with the iPod as well.

G5s Start Shipping

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Drool. I’d love to have one. Then again, I’ve got two G4s… still would be nice 😉

jocknerd writes “Apple is now shipping its G5. The 1.6ghz and 1.8ghz are shipping while the dual processor 2.0ghz will ship at the end of the month.” [Slashdot]