I stayed up until all hours Saturday night watching the Sox lose to the freaking Indians. Sigh. I should say that I didn’t actually watch the end of the game. When the Indians got four runs in the top of the 11th I packed it in, since I couldn’t really keep my eyes open any longer anyway. Tonight is Game 3 in Cleveland and you can be damn sure I’ll tune in for at least some of it. This series is my last chance to watch baseball, considering I’ll be out of the country during the World Series. Unless they go past 5 games, in which case I could potentially watch up to three WS games. I should also mention that the best thing about the post-season is that I get to watch my beloved Red Sox! I have informed Dice that next summer’s official goal is to locate the closest bar with a satellite TV package that includes NESN.

Also: Cleveland sucks, GO SOX! That is all.

So I had a good weekend. Friday night we went to No Mas! Cantina which was pretty good, and because it’s also a furniture store the menu had photos of furniture you could buy along with the food. Um, yes, I’d like the salmon please, with a side of coffee table? Thanks. Saturday we went to the Italian Car Day out in Duluth which featured some pretty cool Ferarris and Lamborghinis. Dice was in absolute heaven. They had Magnum P.I.’s car there as well (not the actual car, but the model and color) which was the highlight for me. Afterwards we went to Brick Store for a late lunch/early drinking fest, which put me out for anything productive on that day. Took a nap all afternoon and woke up too late to attend the goodbye party we had planned to go to. Ah well. Hybrid will just have to return for a visit at some point, as I’m sure he will. Sunday Dice and I put our noses to the grindstone and watched some serious TV in an effort to get through all the shows banked on the DVR. We got through about a week’s worth of shows. Although we are still far behind, all that good work has at least put us closer to catching up. It’s all about the discipline, folks.

This week is the last week of my Fall Challenge. I am pleased that so far I have kept on track with the mileage and the classes. The classes have definitely been the hardest part, carving out an extra hour here and there has been much harder than the mileage. If I do another challenge in the near future I probably won’t be adding another class.

I’ve about had it with the ubiquitous nature of the verb-subject number disagreement in vernacular speech these days. It’s difficult to keep myself back from correcting people who make such freaking obvious number errors. If I have to hear one more person say something like, “There’s a lot of cars parked outside” I may SCREAM. Is it REALLY THAT HARD to remember that “are” is the plural form is the verb “to be”? Really? Come on, please don’t tell me you haven’t either heard this phrase (or similar) or said it yourself. It’s everywhere. Don’t TELL me that I can understand you because that is NOT THE POINT.

I’m not over it but I’ll move on anyway. It’s still 80 degrees out but I’m starting to think about cold weather food. It’s time for a batch of chili, I think, as well as some soupy-soup. If I make a big batch of soup I can bring it to work for lunch on those days when it’s arctic in here. Oh wait, that’s every day.

Fall Challenge: 101.6/28.4 miles and 3/1 classes.