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[grindmonkeh]

Bran and I took a mini-vacation to St. Louis over the weekend to catch a Cardinals game and go to Six Flags. The game was on Friday night, and we sat in the right-centerfield bleachers eight rows back from the outfield wall. It was a good game...Jeff Suppan pitched seven solid innings and St. Louis outscored the Cubs 2 to 0. Jason Isringhausen went into the game for St. Louis in the 9th inning (relieving Flores) and got booed by the whole house. I felt bad for him, but he pitched horribly during the entire month of August. (Last week while the Cardinals played the Mets and lead 7 to 6 in the 9th inning, I remarked to my friend Matt, "that dumbass is going to throw him something he can hit, just watch." right before Isringhausen threw his first pitch to Carlos Beltran straight down the pipe and it was knocked out of the park for a two run walk-off. That kind of pitching is why St. Louis won't go the distance this year. Now I shall digress.) We walked around by the Arch and went to the museum before walking to Laclede's Landing where we ate at the Old Spaghetti Factory. I'll never go back by choice...the spaghetti tasted like something similar to what can be found in a grade-school cafeteria, and I sat closer to the two strangers on either side of me than I did my wife...due to bad table arrangement. It sucked.

You know what the antithesis of suck is? An amusement park with no lines to get on the rides. The morning was rainy, and with school in session the crowd was pretty sparse. The Batman ride is my favorite coaster of any amusement park I've been to...we rode it several times and it was just as awesome every time. It feels like you're flying when you ride in the front car...definitely the highlight of the park.

Another thing to add to the list of things that suck that I hope to never repeat: poking yourself in the eye with a guitar string. I was restringing my 12-string and managed to scratch my eye with the end of a G as it flipped around while I was cranking the tuner. It managed to go right past my glasses and into my eye. It watered for about ten minutes, and I could see a small scratch on the surface, but my vision was unaffected and even the scratch has quickly disappeared. For at least the initial ten to fifteen seconds I was certain that I had put my eye out.



Seagull 12-string.



My (early) birthday present from Bran. The transparent red Dean Edge 1 bass on the left.

Comments

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

Nice photos!

Dude! The eye...ouch. That made my eyes water just reading that.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[kingnuthing.livejournal.com]

Dude you seriously just described everything I fear about restringing my guitars. I'm always afraid it's going to snap back and jab me in the eye while I'm winding it.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

I'd never even considered the possibility. After I finished putting the next half a dozen strings on it (a 12-string) I broke the same string while tuning it. I think it was a cursed string. I luckily had a pack of a dozen or so G's that was in the stuff my great-uncle (he played too) gave me to replace it with.