SleepingPoliceman

“Your hair is just long enough now that if I decapitated you, I could easily hold your head up high as a message to my enemies.”

-Lisa T.

From an email blast from redsox.com today:

Limited opening series packages still available
A limited number of packages remain for the Red Sox Destinations Opening series, which includes tickets to the home opener and also a chance to see Daisuke Matsuzaka’s Fenway debut vs. Ichiro Suzuki and the Seattle Mariners (as the projected third starter, he is tentatively scheduled to pitch on April 11).

Your experience includes tickets to the first three home games of the season (April 10, 11, 12), a Fenway Park tour, a pregame reception with a current Red Sox player, a Red Sox jersey of your choice, game-used baseball and much more.

Double occupancy packages are available including the hotel accommodations for three nights for $1,046 per person and packages can also be purchased without the hotel accommodations for just $749 per person.

Wow, only $249.67 per game…a bargain! Unless you want a hotel room…then it’s $348.67 a game. And you get the chance to see Dice-K. Not a chance in that “you have a chance to buy the tickets,” but a chance in that it’s tentatively possible he’ll pitch one of those games. Maybe.

As for the extras…my guess on who the current Red Sox player will be is Kyle Snyder. And that’s only because Lenny DiNardo is on the A’s now.

Big market baseball…catch the fever!

One post, two subjects. First off, I’ve been horribly neglectful of a friend, and want to throw a shout-out his way. My friend Pete (who was in the illustrious Without A Net improv group with me in college) is spending a few months living in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. He’s been talking about doing something like this since college, and the talk ramped up over the years until now, finally, he’s all rock. He’s documenting his adventures on his new blog.

The updates are somewhat sporadic, but still quality. Check it out if you think you’ll be interested, or if you want to kill a little more time at work. And don’t hold it against him if he starts talking about being a Yankee fan…he’s still a nice guy, he just was raised in the wrong environment. (Note: southwestern Connecticut = the wrong environment.)

That was Part I. Part II:

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This has been rolling around in my head all morning, so I might as well share it.

1. If your name is on the proverbial sign above the door, then you are the person that clients want to talk to and no one else.
2. Each photographer is responsible not only for taking the pictures but also for all post-processing work associated with their images. What better way for someone to analyze their work and hone their skills? That includes you, too, as the business owner/head photographer.
3. Set a maximum amount/percentage that you’re willing to discount your prices. Once you start giving things away, the perceived value of that item drops to ZERO. From that point on, the client will think that they don’t have to pay for that item ever again.
4. Technology is your friend. Make the most of it! Websites! CD’s! Slideshows! DVD’s!
5. If you have an office and employees, make sure you’re either on location shooting or IN THE OFFICE. It’s your company – don’t leave other people to run it!
6. Be reliable! Don’t reschedule appointments, especially at the last minute. Be on time!
7. Know your employees. Know their strengths and take advantage of the skills they have to offer.

/jz

And by nose, I mean fantasy baseball team.

Eight gentlemen of the highest class convened at 305 this morning to have a live draft. It was a very exciting event. This is our first foray into having a keeper league, and we had no less than a million emails going between everyone to nail down the rules for keepers, draft order and roster construction. Discussion of the league and my team follow…only read if you think you’ll be interested.

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I don’t like when people try to take an art form like music and try to put it into easily separated boxes. Not everything is classifiable in a nice, simple “check one” sort of way. And anyone who tells you differently is foolish.

That being said…someone needs to lay down the law with oldies radio stations and get them back on track. They have to know that just because a song is 30 years old, that does not make it an “oldie.” Oldies stations play Motown, early Brit Invasion and Sun Records type stuff. That’s it.

I sort of understood the inclusion of the occasional late 60s/early 70s “AM Gold” type song. And I always tolerated the weird inclusion of Let It Be era Beatles songs, even though they otherwise never played anything past Rubber Soul. But now? It’s out of control. They got disco songs every three or four tunes. They’re playing Innocent Man-era Billy Joel (as if something sounding like it’s from the 60s would make it not be from the 80s). And tonight I heard Bob Seger’s “Against The Wind.” There’s not a single argument that could be made that would come close to convincing me that’s an oldies song.

Oldies: get back to playing oldies. The rest of this swill is just muddying the waters.

(Note: this is not a commentary on the political developments of the day. But you should probably all know about the stuff that’s going down…check jz’s post below for some news stories.)

I’m doing my best to not harp on the broken computer thing, but I will say that not having internet access at home has led me to fall behind on some important things. One of those would be checking out other people’s blogs. Which explains how I missed this blog post from Manlio about Watchmen. As he warns in that post, this is a pretty nerdy discussion that will only really matter for people who have read the books. Be warned otherwise.

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I was going to just email this to PT this morning, but screw it – I’m feeling saucy.

Read these and smile while you die a little on the inside.

• House questions ‘overreaching’ FBI spy powers
• FBI Issues New Rules For Getting Phone Records
• Bush warns Dems to take offer in firings
• House panel to vote on subpoenas in U.S. attorney firings

Wheee!
/jz

Everyone made it to Montreal OK. There was a very high survival rate. Everybody made it back in one piece, although some people’s dignity and sense of self-worth were detained at the border.

I won’t re-tell The Legend Of The Sackadouche here, but let it be known that a good time was had by all. Even those of us who only put it enough money for one hand of blackjack and lost on 19 when the dealer got 20. At least we mainly dealt with upstairs mixup instead of the downstairs variety.

Now I really need to deal with the laptop issue. Stupid Dell…

we have some photos from Spring Training this weekend.

Hope you had a blast in Montreal – can’t wait to hear all about it.
/jz