A once a year religious observance

Good things: First Friday in Binghamton, and receiving a royalty check in the mail for a deal I'd totally forgotten about.

Bad things: a mediocre meal at a formerly favorite restaurant which is now under new ownership--new paint can't make up for an uninspired menu and a truly unfortunate combination of ingredients in my panini. This was then followed by a shoe shopping expedition that resulted in zero shoes acquired. I know I have difficult feet, but this is getting ridiculous.

Indulgence: fresh donuts from the Cider Mill, mmmmmmmmmm. An entire day's supply of saturated fat, and that was just the first donut.

Baseball has been very good to me: I've been watching baseball this past week, mostly catching the ends of games late at night. My team didn't make it to the post-season this year, but I've been keeping an eye on the Rockies since that's my sister's team, and watching the Red Sox. I left the holy church of Fenway in the 1980s, but I still observe the annual rite of faith as we pray "Please, let it be anyone but the Yankees."

So far tonight Clemens had been bounced out, and the Indians are up. Be very interesting if all four division series wind up as 3-0 sweeps.

And now it's off to get ready for another week at the day job....