I have a motto: Appreciate the good times.
Well, I have many mottos, including Why pay more to someone else when you can pay more to me, and Faster pussycat, kill, kill! I am a man of infinite complexity.
But, back to the first one. Appreciate the good times. Today was a good time.
I started the day over at my cousins’ sons’ birthday party. Yeah, technically the kids in questions are my second cousins, but calling anyone thirty years younger than me “cousin” just seems off. I can’t explain why, but it was just such a nice, sweet day that I didn’t want to leave.
I did leave, though, because I had to go to do my signing for the Lake County Captains. Today was the day they were giving away the last in the series of Bobble Fish that I designed.
Last time I did this, back in June, it rained like crazy before the game. A couple little things went askew, and although it was a fine day, I couldn’t help but think it could be better.
I was right.
Today was a great, sunny day. The Captains staff, helpful as always, made a sign indicating that I was the designer of said Bobble Fish, so I got a lot more people coming over. In fact, I signed for a good twenty minutes straight without a break. And until the second inning, I signed a pretty steady stream of them.
The people are always the best part, and I met a bunch of great ones. To a person they were all fun to meet and talk to. I even met someone who I might be able to get some work from, I hope.
The game was good, and despite being down a couple of runs in the last innings, the Captains managed to win. (More than I can say for the last time.) We played launch-a-ball and I almost won an entry to get a big appliance gift certificate. I was so close with most of my throws that people behind me were cheering. If I had only had a couple more tries…
Then there were fireworks, and I have to say for a Class A ball club, they were pretty impressive. I then went home by way of a gas station, top down on a perfect summer night, “He’s a Pirate” from Pirates of the Carribean blaring away.
Hey, what do you expect? It was the Lake Couty Captains. Nautical themes were on my mind.
Anyway, it was just a really nice day. Hopefully, the Captains will have me back next year and I can have some more.