I like the new auto-upgrade feature in WordPress. I just clicked a button yesterday and now I’m running 2.8.1. Easy as pie.
I don’t follow baseball closely, usually not until the end of the season, but I did watch the first four innings of the All Star game last night. It was very cool to see the president in jeans, interacting with people with that comfortable ease he has. He is an odd mix of stiff formality and casualness. He was obviously very much at ease in the broadcast booth for half an inning, joking and commenting about a sport he’s never played but seems to know fairly well. Okay, so his pitch almost didn’t make it to the front edge of home plate, but at least it was on the right trajectory. And he wore jeans–when’s the last time any president has done that for a public event that didn’t involve turning over the earth? This is a guy who is just a month or two younger than me. Regardless of anyone’s political views, I can’t help but think that it’s a good thing for this country to have someone of his (i.e. my) generation calling the shots for a change!
I’m still listening to the new Green Day album. The song Peacemaker reminds me very much of a narcocorrido, as described in Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s novel Queen of the South, the ballads written in tribute to Mexican drug smugglers. One was also featured on a later episode of Breaking Bad this season, three men strumming guitars and singing about feats of daring.
An interesting shocker at the end of Raising the Bar last night. That’s one way to close off a storyline that seemed bogged down. Not a great thing to experience on a first date, however. It wasn’t a bad episode, and at least the case-du-jour had a conclusion, unlike with previous episodes this season. And is the D.A. growing a heart? He’s starting to treat his employees decently.
So far I’ve been hanging tough on my decision not to watch Big Brother this summer. I skipped Sunday’s episode and only watched the first two minutes of last night’s episode before switching over to the baseball game. They might have been trying to recreate the high school experience this time out, but I didn’t see anyone on the first episode that I wanted to watch for more than a few minutes.
I think I finally have my 2500-word essay in the shape I’m looking for. I moved paragraphs around, restructured paragraphs, reorganized sentences and it now seems to have a logical flow. Another few editing passes and I think it will be ready to ship off to the editor, which leaves me with only one more piece for that project, a 500-word essay that is about half done.
