We are in Peoria, Arizona as I write this. Last night seven of us went to see the Diamondbacks play and we all played something called D-Bingo. An interesting game where you try to Bingo off the plays made by both teams made using official scoring. For example, a ball hit to the second baseman and then thrown to the first baseman for an out would be scored 4-3. Jowl D-Bingo’d in the second inning and won an authentic autographed baseball.

Later in the game our youngest went with grandpa to buy a bat and ball and then our middle son caught a spongy Pepsi baseball thrown by the D-backs mascot, Baxter. Good pitching duel and the contest was decided by a late inning suicide squeeze home by St Louis Cardinals. With two men on in the bottom of the ninth the D-Backs had a chance to win it but it was not meant to be.

This morning, I tried to download all my email into Outlook 2003 and it crashed and burned. Will not restart at all without a “sorry for the inconvenience” error. I rebooted, no change. Microsoft, this is why some people hate you. On vacation who wants to debug your programs? Off to download Thunderbird. A shame I have to do that for a Tablet PC.

Speaking of bugs, on my way to download the Tablet PC ink bug fix.

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