Wednesday Night Blog #9

Wednesday Night Blog #9
10/15/14
By
Tom DiCaprio

Well this is now going to be my ninth Wednesday Night Blog.  Only three more until National Novel Writer's Month begins and tonight is one of the three more blogs.  I may continue on with this come November. Stay tuned everyone.  I'm now struggle no to figure out how to begin tonight's blog or was until the writers group who I'm hanging out with write now are now presently discussing the Ebola scare.  We are discussing how one gets Ebola which can be transmitted by touch or by oral means or even airborne.  Looks like it can be a topic for my NaNoWriMo project Gladio.  I just got the Kindle version of NATO's Secret Armies.  It's an in depth look at Operation Gladio.  Gladio is about stand alone armies who would be activated in case of a Soviet Invasion during the Cold War.  They stored weapons and other supplies in hidden areas where they could be quickly accessed should there be a need to.  Gladio later evolved into terrorist attacks where the people would turn to the state for protection. One diabolical part of Gladio was the order to assassinate 40 politicians from the West German Social Democratic Party.

Anyways two nurses who treated the patient in Texas who died of Ebola have now caught the disease.  I'm hoping that there aren't others out there who have Ebola as well.  Between that and Enterovirus epidemic we could be in for quite a winter.

The research for Gladio is continuing to make progress.  I'm presently researching the period from August 1994 through November1995 in order to capture the mood and trends of the era. Part of Gladio will take place during this time.  The other aspect of Gladio is that Rochester, New York will be a setting for Gladio as well.   Enough on Gladio. Seventeen days before I begin to write my next novel and end my hiatus in the process.   Been counting down the days since late July.  All is know is that once November 1 is here it's showtime!

Meanwhile I'm watching game four of the American League Championship Series and all I can say is that I haven't enjoyed playoff baseball this much since the 2004 ALCS when th Red Sox came back from a 3 game deficit to knock off theYankees four games to three.  I'm not counting the 2006 National League Divisional Series where the Mets beat the Mets beat the Dodgers. I refuse to discuss the tragedy of the 2006 NLCS.   I'm still traumatized by it and need I mention how the Mets have been affected by it ever since...okay enough on that. I'm not sure who will win the NLCS this year. St. Louis would be a cool choice but if this even year trend this decade holds then the Giants will win it all.

The Dallas Cowboys are now 5-1. Who saw it coming? I didn't and neither did all of the non
Cowboys fans for that matter. I'm still living and dying along with the Chicago Bears with the arm and consistency of lack there of with Jay Gutless aka Jay Quitter who is also known as Jay Baby Cutler since he's a crybaby.

Sorry to interrupt this blog to congratulate the Kansas City Royals for winning the American League pennant.  They are definitely going to win it all! Hopefully the Mets will win it all next year. Sounds like a 1985 and 1986 redux going on here.

Well enough said for the blog this week. Take care everyone and I will write again soon.

I can't afford to sit on the sidelines anymore...

To paraphrase a favorite book of mine "This is the week where the waves have come crashing in."  Too much has happened this week for me not to say something/  By this I mean that I'm not declaring my candidacy for public office such announcing that I'm entering the 2016 Presidential race.  I wouldn't even know which political party to be a presidential candidate for.  Until 2008 I was sure of my political ideology, but since then I've been struggling with that.  Anyways I will save that for a whole another blog.  What I have decided to do is to be a voice.  By that I mean sharing my take on things by writing on this blog.  Well we are going to be in for quite a ride together and no that was not part of the farewell speech that former President Bill Clinton gave to his female interns.  Enough said there.  Let's get this started (As sounds of Let's Get it Started by The Black Eyed Peas is now playing in my mind and on You Tube that I have playing on low since I refuse to wake up my tenant at 5:40 am. 

Here we go...The score was 17-3. I will give you four quick hints...It wasn't the score of last night's Colts-Texans game at halftime...that was the first hint...it definitely wasn't the score of last night's MLB playoff game (No games were played by the way)...two more hints...It wasn't the score of Thursday hockey game which would have made news on CNN, FOX News, MSNBC (By the way al-Jazzera America doesn't even count as a news outlet.  It's just a way for the Wahhabists from Saudi Arabia to pimp their own brand of Islam on the rest of us.  Just ask poor Megyn Kelly who they CAIR (Council of American-Islamic Relations aka the al-Qaeda subsidiary who is using CAIR as an excuse in order to pimp their own brand of radical Islam on us while infiltrating American society by using our laws in order to turn this nation into an Islamic state) has declared Jihad on all because she took a stand against their diabolical agenda which in part inspired me to write my now published novel Deception.  Well if there was a hockey score that was 17-3 it would have been Team Russia playing Team Zimbabwe in Olympic Hockey.  Here's my last hint it wasn't the score of an Oklahoma City Thunder-Charlotte Hornets NBA Exhibition game (Yes the Charlotte Hornets are back).  Well 17-3 is the score of the latest racial incident that will change Ferguson from Ferguson, Missouri to Fallujah, Iraq.  Yes you are reading right...there has been a second racial incident in Ferguson involving a white police officer and an African-American.  This time the African-American male fired three shots at a white police officer unlike Michael Brown who fired none.  The white police officer proceeded to fire the next seventeen shots killing the shooter in the process.  Seventeen shots?!?!?!? Well I can see a few shots like two to the torso and one to the head, but seventeen?!?!?!? Looks like the officer's face was as red as his neck.  Not for anything but this isn't the pre-Civil Rights Jim Crow South anymore.  Looks like the U.S. military will now have another conflict that they will have to involve themselves with.  Bad enough our military has been spread thin as it is, but this could give ISIS, al-Qaeda and al-Shabbab the opening that they have been looking for to strike at the American heartland.  Oh wait the three aforementioned groups are actually one group in order to bring confusion to Americans and the American military.  Oh wait they have already struck us recently in the form of the Dallas Ebola patient who passed away Wednesday afternoon.  It looks another Ebola infected person is now being treated in Dallas because he was in contact with the patient while treating him.  Looks like my Mom God rest her soul was right once again about one thing "No good deed goes unpunished."  With that I will be ending this post on that note since I'm expecting some serious backlash because of this latest post but someone has to tell it as it is around here so why not the person be me.

Have a good Friday everyone,

Tom

Wednesday Night Blog #8

Wednesday Night Blog #8
October 8, 2014
By
Tom DiCaprio


Today the Ebola victim from Dallas has passed away.  Also a dog has been euthanized in Europe as a result of Enola as well.  Right now my Wednesday night writer's club and I are discussing Ebola.  It looks like the Pandemic of 2014 err one of the two Pandemics of 2014 could very well be under way. The other would be Enterovirus aka EV-D68.  ISIS has come out said that they will infect someone with Ebola and would have them come here and infect Americans. If this isn't an obvious threat then I don't know what would be one...imagine if they come up with a plot to infect us with EV-D68...it looks like a future novel could discuss this...stay tuned.  I hope that this doesn't materialize in real life.  Now five US airports will be screening people for symptoms of Ebola.  This could be a sign of what will come.  With the second blood moon in the books, this concern could be elevated to a whole new level.  The third blood moon will come Saturday April 4, 2015. According to historical tradition Saturday June 4, 33AD was the day after the Crucifixion of Jesus.  Since the Jewish Sabbath falls from a Friday night at sunset to Saturday night at the same time, then with this alignment of events I have no question that things could get very dicey very quick.  Another note about Friday April 3 through Sunday April 5 would be that just like 33 AD  where the Crucifixion fell on April 3 and the Ressurection fell on Sunday April 5 well Good Friday will fall on Friday April 3, 2015 and I'm sure that everyone knows that two days later will be Easter.  I hope that I don't have to give anyone a similar lecture like the one I gave a coworker yesterday when he said that he thought Thomas Jefferson invented the light bulb and that Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin were U.S. presidents. You don't want to be "that person" trust me. Anyways if this isn't a cause for potential
concern then I don't know what would be.

Last night I hung out with a friend of mine at a local bar where he was bartending.  He was talking to another patron and they were discussing ISIS.  I then discussed a previous post where I made concerning the fact that al-Qaeda, al-Shabbab and ISIS were actually one group and that this split up into three groups was a ruse in order to confuse us and our military.  If that is so then we could be in some serious trouble in the near future.  The patron then discussed how he fought in Desert Storm back in 1991.  He fells that ISIS must be bombed off the map.  Well it looks like I now have a new friend.  We proceeded to have a very lively conversation where we agreed tha ISIS was like Nazi Germany in 1938.  This is yet another great cause for concern.  We all know what happened after 1938 and it has even evolved into this crisis.  Well the end of World War I with The Treaty of Versailles was actually the opening shots of World War II.  Therefore this trend continues on to this day just 100 years after WWI began.

Twenty four days until National Novel Writer's Month begins.  Still amped up for it to begin.  Research for Gladio is well underway.  This could be quite an interesting November to remember.  I'm still coming up with ideas for Gladio.  I just won't be discussing them in this blog at this time for obvious reasons.

On to something different.  The MLB playoffs have taken a very interesting turn.  Looks like the Kansas City Royals are becoming the sleeper team this year.  They've managed to knock off both the Oakland A's and the Los Angeles Angels.  Now they are going to play the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Championship Series.  They've knocked off two powerhouse teams why not go for the trifecta.  I think they could pull it off.  In the National League Chapionship Series, the San Francisco Giants will be playing the St. Louis Cardinals.  Looks like a rematch of the 1985 World Series could soon be taking place, but yet the Giants could continue what has been a trend this decade of winning the World Series in the even numbered years in the 2010's decade.

The NFL well do I really need to discuss this...okay then I will.  Looks like another weekend and another arrest in the NFL. Derrick Shelby of the Miami Dolphins was arrested for groping women at a club and refusing to drive out of the club afterwards.  He proceeded to be charged with resisting arrest among things.  The Chicago Bears are playing with no heart. Once again their defense stood around as opposing wide receivers caught balls for touchdowns.  Considering that the Carolina Panthers failed to field an entire team and beat the Bears in the process well this doesn't bode well.  However the Buffalo Bills switched starting quarterbacks and won while remaining in first place.  Since my iPad has been freezing all night I'm afraid that I will be ending this blog for the week at this time.

Wednesday Night Blog #7

Wednesday Night Blog # 7
By
Tom DiCaprio
10/1/14

It's definitely good to be back blogging. I was house sitting for a friend in Pultneyville from September 9 to the 27.  I definitely enjoyed the lakefront property for sure.  However the back injury made me alter some plans.  My friend has four beds in his home.  The one that he wanted me to sleep in did not do wonders for my back for the first hour that I tried to sleep.  After playing a round of musical beds, I slept in the master bedroom despite his wishes for me not to.  It was the best available bed that was conducive for my back issues.  It was awesome waking up every morning while I was in Pultneyville and looking out the window and seeing Lake Ontario.  What a wonderful feeling that was.  The nineteen days flew by very fast although the daily commutes from Pultneyville to Rochester and back seemed to drag on like the Kansas City Royals-Oakland A's game from last night.     That said its good to be back in Rochester.

I've been getting mentally ready for my National Novel Writers Month Project that begins a month from today.  I'm going to pick up Gladio by Ganser Daniele and read it this month.  It should give me quite a premise for my novel "Gladio" that will be written starting November 1.  I'm so amped up for it and I have to wait another 31 days before I begin to write it.  I'm working on an elevator pitch for it right now.  John Grisham said that if you cannot explain your novel in one or two sentences then you shouldn't write it.  Well here's my elevator pitch for Gladio which is a work in progress as I write this.  "A CIA agent who is framed by a rogue agent must clear his name while confronting his past in order to prevent a terrorist attack."

Well it's been an interesting NFL season.  Who would have thought that the cowboys would be 3-1 and the Bills would start the season 2-0.  Even the NFC Central is still wide open.  The MLB playoffs are underway.  I can't think of a team to root against this year.  I would prefer that the Angels or Royals win it all.  I think it will be a combination of the Angels or Orioles playing the Dodgers or Nationals.  Let Rocktoberfest commence.

On to the news front.  Ebola has arrived in the USA. Texas has reported the first case.  The sad part is that I'm not surprised about this.  I'm just surprised that it took this long for it to occur.  Looks like there will be a sudden demand for DVD copies of Pandora's Clock, Outbreak and Contagion.  Definitely not a good sign for what could come.  Imagine if this outbreak of Ebola was in fact an act of biological terrorism? I don't even want to picture how this would be handled.

The Secret Service has had one mishap after another recently.  Now there is a rumor that a convicted felon carried a gun into the White House elevator and was standing next to President Obama.  What are they trying to do? Deliberately screw up and allow an incident to take place that would be tragic. That would be inexcusable.  The Secret Service who had been so vigilant to protect not only the president from assassination, but the nation from a race war in the process has now been lax in their duties.  Do they know something that we don't? There are other ways to handle it.  Allowing an assassination to occur is unacceptable.

I may have briefly mentioned a possibility of al-Qaeda, al-Shabbab and ISIS being one and the same group, but flying different flags in order to confuse the USA and our allies in the War on Terror. I still feel that it is a possibility that can never be ignored.  If this strategy of spreading our military too thin and then engaging in an all out full scale strike against us occurs, then this nation as well as our allies may be in some very serious trouble.  There has also been an en masse immigration of Moslems from the Middle East to European nations such as Great Britain, France and Germany as well as other western nations such as the United States and Canada.  This was also a topic that was a storyline in my latest novel Deception.

Even the Rochester area is still having a rough run of controversial news stories.  After the controversial parole of Thomas Johnson III which resulted in the killing of RPD Officer Daryl Pierson, the news of Monroe County has shifted west to Brockport which has experienced a couple of high profile incidents in the past ten days.  First SUNY Brockport defeated St. John Fisher College in football.  Then the Brockport students proceeded to party after the upset and a riot took place.  I'm now picturing how many times DJ Snake and Lil John's hit song Turn Down For What was played during the partying that took place in the hours that preceded the riots.  This week a SUNY Brockport soccer player was stabbed by an acquaintance who was stalking him.  The acquaintance who was not a student at Brockport was able to enter the campus undetected and then stab the student who according to some was a love interest of his assailant.  The victim did not feel the same way towards his future assailant.  Looks like crashing into events and places has become a common theme. A local radio station sent someone to slip his way into a local high school and college undetected this morning.

Unfortunately this trick is not limited to spies and government agents.  Also this is not only the unfortunate recoccuing common theme these days.  The NFL has had the floodgates open when it comes to domestic violence.  This has since extended into other sports.  I think this was the first weekend where a NFL player has not been arrested. This is definitely a first in quite some time.

Well I have run our of things to write about this week.  With that said I wish everyone a great week!

Tom

Wednesday Night Blog #6

Wednesday Night Blog #6

September 10, 2014

By

Tom DiCaprio

 

 

 

     I am going to begin this blog by getting the obvious out of the way.  Tomorrow is the thirteenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.  Yes, the world changed forever as a result of the attacks that resulted in the War on Terror.  Until then such an attack would only occur in a novel that authors such as Tom Clancy would write.  He wrote about a hijacked plane that was used as a missile that would crash into a building in his 1994 novel Debt of Honor.  Since then countless authors, myself included would write about the next catastrophic terrorist attack.  Hopefully such an attack will never occur, however with the rise of ISIS we cannot afford to put down our guard especially now.  That alone would be a grave mistake.  ISIS is the biggest threat facing the United States along with al-Qaeda when it comes to terrorism.  Despite this, Fareed Zakaria brought up something the other day in which Osama bin Laden said before his death that he ordered al-Qaeda members to create fake terror groups that were actually al-Qaeda itself in order to throw off the United States and our allies.  Oliver North mentioned in a Facebook post that I read where he mentioned various terrorist groups and their leaders fighting the U.S. and our allies whether it be together or separately.  Well all I have to say is that we cannot rule out the possibility that they are in fact working together as one al-Qaeda unit, but are pretending to be separate terrorist groups in order to throw us off and then they would come together and the War on Terror proceeds to take a disasterous turn for the worse since they played us like a game of chess (yes a Fugees lyric reworded and paraphrased in the process). 

     As for 9/11, it began the road that would result in my transition from an aspiring mystery novelist who dreamed of writing a spy novel but didn’t think I could do it to a three time published spy/political thriller novelist.  After Wolf Blitzer discussed a scenario of a dirty bomb attack at a presidential inaugural in January 2005, I began to believe that I could actually write a Tom Clancy-esque spy novel after all.  The rest is now history. 

     A week ago tonight I read a Facebook post by a friend of mine which said that a Rochester, NY police officer was shot.  Little did I know how monumental the story would become in the Rochester, New York area where I live.  The next morning I was listening to the radio when it was announced that the officer who was shot was the first Rochester Police Department officer to be killed while on duty since 1959 and that the suspect who killed the officer was shot as well as an innocent bystander.  That alone is very sad, but it was what happened next that would give this an even greater meaning.  The officer had left behind a wife and two children.  The suspect in the shooting had been recently paroled and for the second time in as many weeks that a slip up in the parole check in system resulted in a very violent crime.  The first crime as a result in the incompetence of the parole system was the rape of a teenage girl.  If the Rochester community was already outraged as it was, then more communities especially nearby East Rochester, New York (where I live) became further outraged when the name of the officer was released.  A friend of mine mentioned on Facebook that her cousin was the officer who was killed without releasing his name.  The moment I read on Facebook that the officer who was killed was Daryl Pierson, it hit home for me.  I knew Daryl and his family.  His mom and my mom were very close friends when they were co-workers at Wegmans Food Markets.  I had been among a group of friends who attended a gathering at Daryl’s home a couple of years earlier.  He was working that evening.  Why do these kind of tragedies happen to good people.  Daryl had returned to work a day earlier after being on medical leave for eight months and his son’s first day of kindergarten took place on the day that he was killed.  Thousands of people attended the wake as well as the funeral.  I had never been to a police or military wake and I hope that such a tragedy never grips Rochester, New York or its surrounding communities.  I gained a greater appreciation of law enforcement and what they have to endure on a daily basis.  I was even more amazed by how the Rochester area came together.  This gives community a whole new meaning. 

     With that I will be closing this blog until next week.  Until then take care.

Wednesday Night Blog #5 September 3, 2014

Well everyone Summer 2014 is now in the books.  What a summer it was. Between the ball games and crash I was in not to mention getting my third novel "Deception" published it was a memorable one to put it mildly. Did I mention the writing hiatus that I am taking until November 1? *laughs* well it led me to writing "The Wednesday Night Blogs" that you will be reading right here. This the fifth "Wednesday Night Blog" although it would have been the sixth if the accident didn't take place three weeks ago today.  With that here's the latest:

     I've been questioning whether the hiatus from novel writing that began on July 25 was such a great idea or not.  Since last Wednesday I have been thinking about ending the hiatus/sabbatical and resume writing novels once more.  At the same time thoughts about my National Novel Writers Month project Gladio has been on my mind a lot.  After some thought, I will be beginning to conduct research for Gladio while continuing on with my hiatus/sabbatical.  With NaNoWriMo being 59 days away and I've survived the first 40 days without writing a novel, it looks like I will be at the half way point by next Saturday there is hope for me!  A fun part of NaNoWriMo will be the kickoff party that begins at 11pm Halloween evening and ends six hours later a local all night diner.  I feel that this will be an amazing experience for sure.  I cannot think of a better way to resume writing novels.

     Enough on the discussion about my writing.  It's time for the fun stuff.  I am on the minor league baseball withdrawal patch *laughs again* due to the season being completed for both the Rochester Red Wings and the Batavia Muckdogs.  I managed to get 144 autographs this season which is a personal best!  The interesting part was that I got 100 of the autographs since August 11.  I plan on shattering my personal best next year!  In fact I'm beginning to get ready to shatter the record by scoring out some of my baseball cards of minor leaguers who will be passing through both Rochester and Batavia next year.  The scenery that I checked out during my three trips to Batavia last month was breathtaking.  The open country with farm houses had a classic American heartland feel to it.  I felt relaxed each time that I saw the views.  I think it would be cool to make a fall drive to Batavia and see how the area would look in autumn.  I have no question that it would look even more breathtaking than it is right now.

     While I am on the subject of fall, it is an awesome time of the year. Although I could never put a finger on exactly why I feel this way it is the aura of fall that is special in itself. As I am sitting here typing tonight's blog I'm enjoying my first pumpkin spice latte of the season.  Hopefully there will be many more in the next few months.  Football begins tomorrow night and I consider it to be more than a sport.  To me it has become a national holiday that begins on the first Thursday in September and ends on the first Sunday in February.  Last night was the first of two fantasy football drafts for me.  The next one is tonight at 8pm which means that I will be wrapping this blog up.  Be safe everyone and enjoy the football games if you are a football fan.  I will be checking out a First Friday Gallery night in a couple of days and the last art festival of 2014 on Saturday aka Chlothesline Festival at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY.  Ah yes I forgot to Rochester Antiquarian Book Fair which is near the Memorial Art Gallery on Saturday too.  All this will be in between the football and baseball games that I will be watching. With that take care everyone.

Tom

Wednesday Night Blog #4

Wednesday Night Blog #4

August 27, 2014

By

Tom DiCaprio

 

Note: This blog although written on August 27 was not published until tonight due to a series of events that sidetracked me.  Here it is.

 

 

The other day, I was on Facebook and I saw a post from a friend of mine which I immediately decided to share.  In a lot of ways it hit home with me because I went through or am still going through some of the rules that it mentioned.  With that I will now be sharing the post here too.

 

7 Rules of Life

 

1.      Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up your present.

2.      What others think of you is none of your business.

3.      Time heals almost everything, give it time.

4.      Don’t compare your life to others and don’t judge them.  You have no idea what their journey is all about.

5.      Stop thinking too much, it’s alright not to know the answers.  They will come to you when you least expect it.

6.      No one is in charge of your happiness, except you.

7.      Smile.  You don’t own all the problems in the world.

 

Whisper of the Heart

 

I decided to open this week’s Wednesday Night Blog with “7 Rules of Life” because it has applied not only to my life’s journey especially the past twenty years which has culiminated in the past two weeks, but also since it will be a theme in my National Novel Writer’s Month project Gladio that will be started on November 1 as well as most of all I feel that everyone can benefit and learn from the “7 Rules of Life.”  Twenty years ago, I was a college student who had transferred to a college that I have always dreamed of attending.  In the Fall of 1994, everything seemed to be going right in my life.  Then I was involved in a crash in which I had to more or less put everything on hold for a few months.  The “dream” then became a nightmare.  I then endured a series of personal problems among which was regret.  There was also anger along the way.  I felt why did my life come to a standstill?  Why does everything become a disaster every time that things are going perfect for me.  This was not the first time that I felt this way.  Things were going perfect on three other occasions when it came completely undone.  Death (the loss of my father, grandmother and fiancée) were the first three times that this has occurred. Over the next few months I made the decision that if I had a chance to do something that I would just do it.  At times those decisions were not the best, but I wasn’t feeling regret for the most part.  Yet I was battling my past where I knew that it could all come undone yet again. 

     Then slowly things began to change.  I was yet living that “perfect” life working at a job which I was completely happy with when I lost my Mom.  However this time although things were coming undone, my friends were there for me and it made a difference.  They did not come completely undone.  In fact things gradually began to come together for me.  I realized that I have a lot of friends who are family to me.  I began to reconcile with my past while exploring my dream of writing in earnest.  I have since self published three novels.  Then came the crash two weeks ago where my car was damaged and I injured my back.  I was really beginning to live that “perfect” life again when there seemed to be yet another setback.  Everything seemed to playing out like the events of the months leading up to and including the crash.  Well this time it did not come undone.  I decided to atone for the past and redeem myself for it.  This time it is working out well.  I’m doing the things that I enjoy doing although I had to modify it somewhat, but I’m happy because of it.  I feel that I have become stronger because of everything.

1.      I’m not allowing the past to keep me down while I have made peace with it. 

2.      I no longer pay attention to what others think of me.

3.      Time is now healing wounds.  I chose to give it time unlike the past.

4.      I’m no longer comparing my life to others. 

5.      I’m now allowing the answers to come to me.

6.      I’m learned to be in charge of my own happiness and I’m happy because of it.

7.      I’m now smiling while accepting the fact that I don’t own all of the world’s problems.

I know that it took quite a while for me to accept it all, now I want to share this with everyone knowing that if I can help out even one person with this then I’ve done my duty.     

 

With that the fun part of the blog now commences.  I did some more autographing at the ballparks this week.  Between the trips to Frontier Field in Rochester, NY and Dwyer Park in Batavia, NY in the past ten days, I now have set a personal best with 122 autographed baseball cards in a year.  There’s still some more baseball to go so the number will likely climb.  The Rochester Red Wings are in the thick of the International League Wild Card Race.  We are a game and a half out of the wildcard and I like our chances of clinching it.  I feel that I’m more into baseball than I have been in recent years (Which is saying a lot).  I feel that I’ve been 67% into it since 2010 until now which would be the equivalent to a lot of people being 110% into baseball.  The MLB Waiver Trade Deadline is Sunday.  Which MLB team would like Bartolo Colon?  Mets could use a solid prospect or two.  Just saying.   Well it is now September 3, 2014 and Colon is still a Met.  Anyways as for those series of events that sidetracked me, well they were unexpected but nothing major.  Next blog will be published within the next few hours. 

 

Take care.