My #BaltimoreOrioles team has taken the field today. Now I’m looking forward to seeing my first feathered one of the year. This handsome gentleman entertained me last year on my first day of retirement.
Visited my parents at the cemetery. Turned after a while to leave and, just steps away from Mom and Dad's grave, I ran into a headstone for Rex Barney, the legendary former Memorial Stadium announcer. At the base of the marble slab: "Thank yooouuu." Like, WHAT???? The granter of baseball fan contracts (IYKYK) died in 1997. How had I missed him in decades of coming here to see Dad? Still, what a happy encounter in a sad place. Left the graveyard glad to know that my parents -- diehard Orioles fans -- have neighbors who, like them, are ridiculously cool.
Okay, #stibnite vs #sodalite. Stibnite is cool, but I have to be #TeamSodalite in this matchup. I've always been fascinated by sodalite and all of the related #nephelinesyenite minerals that only occur in very special silica poor or absent melts. They are like the #BaltimoreOrioles kicking ass over the #Yankees (and I already championed #Quartz as the Yankees). Plus, sodalite is an awesome blue color and flourescent under UV. How cool is that!!!!???? #MinCup23