Sunday, April 13, 2008

Long time no blog.... plus Nats Game update

So first a quick update on life since my last blog. Work, move to a different job in schlumberger Aberdeen that is basically my old job plus some new stuff :-( Work Work, 10 days at home for New years, Work, Work, Big Promotion from Senior Field Engineer to General Field Engineer (Which while it sounds like demotion is actually a pretty huge promotion and now puts me at the highest level of Field Engineer Schlumberger has). Then I worked for 8 more weeks and now, finally I am on my 2 weeks off that I was promised back in November.
So now that you are up to date with my life lets start up this blog thing again.
Alright, if you don't know Washington DC has a baseball team. They are the old Expos and they still are not very good. But if you don't have a good team you may as well draw a crowd by having them play in the middle of the wrong part of DC. Wait a minute, that sounds crazy..... but its working. and the reason why you ask????? New Stadium. That's right folks the Nats have a new stadium and the city is energized. The team does also have a lot to live up to because Washington's other big 3 pro teams were all int he playoffs this past year, and while the Skins were 1 and out, the Wiz will collapse as always and the Caps are down 2-0 in game 2 of the series as I am writing this, they all made it. Will the Nats..... after yesterdays performance my prediction is No.
Anyway as for my day yesterday, it was awesome. I don't think i have ever had a bad day when i got to watch baseball live, especially in a new stadium. We had awesome seats and got to see quite an offencive explosion. The Braves put up 4 int he top of the 4th and the crowd was going nuts. i guess part of not having a team for 30 years means that lots of people start rooting for other teams. and if you started rooting for teams int he 90's the braves were a pretty good choice. Quick side note. 95% of the girls at the park wearing Braves jerseys were smokin hot, and because of this I decided my next girlfriend will be getting a Braves jersey to wear around, actually it may not have to be a Braves jerseys, I'd even say that an average girl in a Baseball Jersey moves up a point on a 10 point scale just by having the Jersey on.
Back to the Blog. so Yea the Nats got shelled, but it was a fun day at the ballpark.

John Smoltz pitched for the Braves and did very well. As you can see. We had pretty awesome seats. Half way between 3rd base and the foul pole about 12 rows back. I missed 3 foul balls by about 12 seats each and even better I got on the Jumbotron for the first time ever in my sports watching life. And what a jombotron it is. Its the Biggest HD TV in the world. I don't know the exact size, but as you can see.


It is huge. What did I learn by seeing myself in HD and that big. Well other than the fact that I was the best looking person in our section, possibly the whole stadium, HDTV isn't good for guys with short hair. It makes them look like they are going bald.

One last thing to note, in between innings these guys come onto the field to make sure people won't do anything stupid. First off, i think i could outrun this guy,

second, I thought Tiger was shooting a 68 at the masters but clearly he was stopping the drunk guy in the first row from spending a night in SE jail. Which by the way is all anyone needs to know to act proper at Nats games as all the White people from the burbs love going to a game in SE, talking about how nice it will be one day and how the stadium will bring up the area, but non of us EVER want to go the the jail in SE because of being stupid at the baseball game 'cause that same jail houses people that live in SE and we spend our whole lives staying away said people not trying to get into an 8X6 with them.

that's it for now folks, Will try and update again soon.