A surprise for dinner

[figmo]

Yesterday Warren asked me to find out whether the SF Giants were playing at SBC Park that night. This has a significant impact on traffic getting to where I work, especially when the game starts shortly after I get off from work. As it turned out, not only was there a game, there was a fireworks show following it, which meant Traffic Hell_TM.

We decided I'd walk to the Embarcadero BART station and take the train to Daly City. Warren somehow screwed up and went to Colma (one station off) instead, but quickly fixed this around the time I arrived at Daly City. He wound up in the wrong parking lot, which meant I had to shlep about half a mile to find him, but once I got to the car I found a welcome surprise in the form of Lady in the back seat. Unfortunately, he hadn't given her doggie Dramamine, so she'd barfed. Warren and I quickly cleaned up the backseat, then did the obvious -- drive the dog to the beach for her first trip there.

Lady was clearly still recovering from carsickness. She was rather shy around and uninterested in the various dogs there, who were clearly very interested in her. Instead, she wanted to sniff the plants and dirt. We took her along a path parallel to the beach, then when we came across a gentle slope she and I could navigate, we took her down to the sand, where she showed her "enthusiasm:"





As you can see, she was determined not to budge.

Eventually we left the beach, grabbed a quick bite at Sizzler, and went home.

Comments

[firecat]

Those are really pretty photos though!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Yesterday Warren asked me to find out whether the SF Giants were playing at SBC Park that night.

And it's Arthur C. Clarke up to bat. Heinlein pitches his fastball, and Clarke hits it up the sideline to center field. Lary Niven catche it, and Clarke is out. Niven throws it to Douglas Adams at third, but Asimov slides in and is...safe!

It took me a minute to realize you meant San Francisco giants.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Point taken. OTOH, the game you described is one I would pay to see.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

And with Sprague de Camp coming to the plate, Campbell is coming out of the dugout. Looks like that'll be all for Heinlein today. He went 6 2/3, gave up two runs on six hits, struck out five, walked one, and hit Asimov this inning. The Nebulas are bringing in Mike Resnick to pitch to de Camp.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

You got there before me *g*. Although Clarke and Adams, at least, are more likely to be playing cricket (but might compromise on soccer)...

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

I once had a video baseball game on my Commodore 64; I got bored one day and decided to use the disk-editor utility I'd written and change all the players' names on one team to be science fiction authors. It made playing much more fun .

(I also meant to go and change the other teams' names to be classical composers, but I never got around to that. Pity. When you're bringing in a closer, it's hard to do better than Beethoven's ninth.)

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

*sputter* *chortle* *giggle* *snort*