The One With The Leather

For those of you of weak heart, I would say look away now, but there's actually no reason to. This is a perfectly harmless, children-friendly blog. Although any children reading this surely have better things to do. Such as stick their fingers in a socket or choke on their latest toy that has no parts on it possible to do such a thing with. Not that I advocate these things, or even approve of them, but they're probably higher ranked on a child's to-do list than reading this. Anyway, I digress.

If you are still curious about what the heck this title is about, well, there's a reason for that. While looking for a good blog title for today I was googling two-three minutes ago and found out that the traditional item for a third year anniversary is leather (compared to a modern item being crystal or glass). All I can say is that traditionalists are obviously a lot kinkier than we thought!

The relevance of that is that today is the three-year anniversary of myself and Chrissi being together as a couple, which is to state the obvious a fairly long time. Despite not knowing the theme until two minutes ago (and she won't know it until she gets up and reads this tomorrow morning) we managed to stay well within it. Some people are just that good.

This afternoon we went to a baseball game of Los Angeles Angels vs Toronto Blue Jays. How does this stick within the theme? Well, baseballs are made out of leather (or at least the outer layer is). I don't care how tenuous it is, it's within the theme dammit. As entertaining as the thought of me being ignorant at a baseball game is, I have been watching it the past fortnight and doing my research, so I was fully aware of what was going on.

Angels won 4-3 in the end, helped by three runs in the third innings, and by Angels hitter Garret Anderson hitting the Bluejays pitcher out of the game - literally. He hit the ball straight back at him in the first innings, injuring him, and so their best pictcher was out of the game. Compare this with Angels' Jered Weaver who pitched until the sixth innings, giving up only three runs, with Bluejays using five pitchers in the same timeperiod. It was, all in all, a very enjoyable time and a very interesting game too that I thoroughly recommend to anyone else.

In the evening we went to dinner at a very nice restaurant nearby called the Claim Jumper. I've no idea where the name comes from either, but they did some excellent barbeque food, and we shared a combo plate (with chicken, pork and beef on it, all superb). For desert there was the potential of a motherlode chocolate cake - six layers high. For those who thought that death by chocolate was too humane. I was too full to even risk trying a slice, thankfully.

All in all it was a very enjoyable day, and a great improvement to actually spend your anniversary of being together with the other person! I recommend that to you all. More tomorrow.