10 More Days

Hello everyone!

So today marks 1 year since I left for my semester at LSU, but it also marks 10 days until I return home from Boston to Raleigh.

Today was a rather uneventful day. I went into work at 7:30 AM, and did security along with working on the outfield grass a bit before flooding/watering the bullpens and heading home at 11:30 AM. Nice, quick, 4 hour day. The weather was beautiful today, so I enjoyed being at the ballpark, but it was also a nice afternoon to have off. I came home and hung out in this part of town for the afternoon before heading to Brighton to eat dinner and catch the first few innings of the Red Sox game in Tampa. Right now the Sox are in the bottom of the 10th, hopefully they'll be able to get some runs soon and put this thing away. With the Yankees beating the Blue Jays tonight the Sox really could use at least one win in Florida before a 4 game series in New York this weekend.

There was one funny thing that happened tonight at the sports bar we were at watching the game. My coworker Josh is a big country music fan, just like me, and in the middle of the second inning I decided to take a walk over to the jukebox to see if there was anything country we should listen to. The jukebox and television speakers are the same, and when the jukebox is going the broadcast from the tv is interrupted, and when no song is selected the game audio is played over the speakers. I found it an appropriate time though to turn this Boston sports bar into a honky tonk and we listened to Keith Whitley's "Don't Close Your Eyes". Hahaha, it was pretty funny to see some dedicated Sox fans wonder what had happened to the game audio so they could hear this old and somewhat obscure country song. Anyways, Josh and I loved it.

Tomorrow is the first of the two days of Paul McCartney/MGMT concerts at Fenway Park, and I'm actually working the first show. I go in tomorrow at 4:30 PM, and I'm really excited. Seeing both acts will be a treat, and to think I already saw Paul this summer is pretty cool.

I'm off to bed for now though, the Red Sox have put themselves in a hole pretty quickly in the bottom of this inning, wouldn't be shocked if this doesn't do it for the boys tonight. Oh well, we'll see.

In honor of my time in Louisiana, GEAUX SOX!