You Know You Need a New Camera When.......

My friend May and I went to the World Premier of the 2009 World Series DVD at the Ziegfeld last night. It was sooo cool and almost made up for not getting World Series tickets. John Sterling, Michael Kay, Susan Waldman, Joe Girardi and Brian Cashman were there with the World Series Trophy. I realized that my camera sucks really really bad. Everyone else had cameras that could take pictures in the dark and up close way more than mine. I'm getting a new one soon.

It took 12 days for this response:

Hey Jackie,

We have about 14,000 partial plan holders and we only put on sale about 2,000 tickets per game in the pre sale for the world series. These events that take place at Yankee Stadium during the playoffs are considered Major League Baseball events and not Yankee events. Major League baseball is entitled to a certain amount of tickets which we have no control over. In prior years when there might have been more tickets available was not the case this year due to the fact that we have less seats in our new stadium and take into account the amount of premium seats we now have compared to none in the old stadium. Unfortunately the only advice I can give you is to periodically keep checking Ticketmaster for releases but there is no guarantee in that. If you have any questions please let me know.

S.A.
Ticket Representative
New York Yankees Yankee
Stadium Ticket Office

Boo MLB, Go Yankees.

Last Saturday I went to the Bronx Zoo with my friend, Diane. I took this picture of the lions. The male lion had been walking around before I took the picture. Oh well.

This is so Awesome!

Tonight I was trying to kill time before going home because I knew there were going to be roofers on top of my building and I didn't want to sit through the noise. So, I went to Barnes and Noble and I was just going to pick up a cross stitch magazine and then I remembered that The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney was released today. I went and "read" it. The graphics are so beautiful, I bought it. I don't have very many picture books. This one is so great. I put "read" in quotations because it's a wordless picture book and of course you can still tell the story by the pictures.

Adios Geocities....

Okay..I spent the last hour or so deleting my files on Geocities. I had my account since 1997, I think. I can remember it like it was only yesterday, everyone was all excited about getting to make a web site and they had to learn html! You used to find a "neighborhood" and your web site had a sort of street address. I found some really old pics of myself in my files I had saved there like this spiffy Glamour Shots pic of myself. Remember back in the late 80's how everyone just had to go to the mall and get their Glamour Shots? My mom went with me and she wore a western outfit in hers. I remember that because she has it hanging on the wall still at home.

After my post last night, I did some more thinking and I thought I would like to still have a web page so I can post things like my Yankee tickets and it can be a starting page to all the other junk I have out there. Oh sorry, this week we are calling it "cloud computing". I looked at some free web servers. First I tried Weebly. I didn't like it at all. I couldn't figure out how to just type in html. I know things are getting easier for people who don't know how to develop their own sites. But jeez. I gave up. Then I found Webng and it seemed to be retro enough for me. It's got a banner ad on top which is slightly less annoying than the side ad's that were on Geocities. Anyway, I went with that. So this is my new url: http://tocej.webng.com/. Nice!

Goodbye Summer

Well, I turned 40 a few weeks ago and I forgot to write it in my blog. I think I am much better at writing meaningless comments on Twitter. This has been a great summer. I have had so much fun going to the Yankee games. So far my record for Yankee games that I've attended is 10 and 2. So, that's really good. Now we just wait and see what kind of access us "partial plan" folks get to the playoffs.

I went to Chicago with my mom for ALA this year. That was really fun. See pictures on my flickr account.

Geocities is closing in October. I think I won't have a web page after that because I don't feel like paying for it. Maybe I will make my blog "my web page" and more people will read it.

About last night...

My record for the Yankees games I've attended is now 5 and 1. I had a good time last night. Even though my seats are up high, I sit in a good section with other people on the Friday night plan. So, the same people are there every week and they are nice and friendly and witty. There's one guy that sits behind me who yells too much. Sometimes when he yells stuff he is wrong. That is funny too.

Before the game, I got a bleacher's creatures t-shirt and I went over to talk to Bald Vinny and I told him that I was his "fan" on facebook. He asked me what my name is and when I told him my last name, he asked me if I like to eat toast. No one has said that since like the 6th grade. Then when I told him my friends don't want to get seats in the bleachers, because there are no seatbacks, he said I should get better friends. Maybe so....

Anyway, I feel bad for Luis Castillo. I think A-Rod still can't come through in the clutch. However, I still will defend him against rude Red Sox fans. Who applauds and cheers when a player gets hit by a pitch? Thursday night in Boston they all cheered when A-Rod got hit. That was so ignorant and classless.

After the game, I took the new Metro North train that leaves right from Yankee Stadium. It was a little weird not taking the number 4 subway to 125th Street. When you took the train from 125th, there would never be enough empty seats for all of the fans and sometimes I would have to stand until the train got to Stamford which is like 40 minutes. Now the train is only people coming from the game and there are actually too many empty seats. Nice..

Haven't Blogged in a Month ... again

I thought I would blog about how disappointing it is to have one of your favorite stores close. I just noticed yesterday that the shoe store near my house is closed. It was one of those closeout stores that had good brand name shoes, cheap. I guess I didn't go there enough. It was one of those places that was real hit or miss so you had to be in the mood to look around. Sometimes you could find some real gems there. Oh well. Also, I went to the mall tonight and the Dairy Queen in the mall is closed. That really made me mad because I like Dairy Queen and it is way cheaper than stupid Marble Slab which is like 6 dollars for a tiny cup of ice cream...oh well again.

My record for my Yankee games is 4 and 0. I have been having a good time even though the seats are too high up.

It's Baseball Season Again...Thank Goodness

Well, this is going to be my second season as a Yankee Licensee. I'm looking forward to it but I'm not sure how great my seat reassignment is going to be. I'm in left field in the third level, 6th row.

I'm just watching the Rays game now and the Rays are winning 12-2. I am starting to get really mad because I'm tired of listening to stupid fans of other teams. I guess people are just stupid and drunk at the game. But why do they have to chant "Yankees Suck", when the Rays won the pennant last year? Can't they just be happy? They must have really low self-esteem because they have to yell that. And by the way, who was watching all those games when Tampa was winning last year? Their stands were practically empty all season until the playoffs. I guess they don't really know anything about baseball and they jumped on the winning bandwagon. Oh well...

Update

I don't think I'll ever be a good blogger. Maybe I should try to blog once a week to see if I could get into a habit of doing it. I am better at Twitter and I check my facebook a lot now because I know so many people on there.

Anyway, I had a car accident on Christmas Eve and that pretty much ruined my Christmas vacation. I was not hurt but my car, "Spanky" was totalled. I got a new Honda Civic. So, hello car payments. Luckily I did get some money back from the old car to make a down payment. I got my new car last week. I posted a picture of it on my Flickr. I think I am going to name my new car "Poindexter" because it is too smart.

Anyway, Happy New Year.