Jon Sagara

I'm sorry, but did I suddenly pull up stakes and relocate my job and my life to war-torn South Central Iraqistan without my brain knowing it?  WTF is going on with the power grid?  Didn't we have this same issue 6 years ago?  WhyTF isn't it fixed yet???

From The Bee:

California's electricity grid manager warned that power to large energy consumers is likely to be cut later Thursday to keep the state's lights on.

From Roseville & Rocklin Today:

[Energy saving tip:] Consider hanging your clothes to dry outside

What???  This is the year 2-0-0-7, not 1-8-5-3.

California, get your shit together.  JFC.

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And avocados, and sweet potatoes, and rice, and…

So far (knock on wood), he has been a pretty mellow eater, and just within the past couple of days he has finally figured out how to get the food off of the spoon and keep it in his mouth.  That's a development Mom and Dad are very pleased to see.  Homer?  Not so much, though he has no clue about the banner "floor cleaning" days that lie ahead of him.

Oh yes, little 1-year-old-Japanese-baby-in-a-high-chair-at-a-Japanese-restaurant-where-you-were-eating-a-bowl-of-udon-and-the-proprietors-spread-newspapers-all-around-you-to-minimize-the-mess,-and-yet-you-still-somehow-managed-to-spill-your-broth-and-noodles-and-miss-the-newspapers-ENTIRELY.  I'm talking about you!  Ya bastard.

This time from his former college coach at ASU.  It's a great read.  You really get a glimpse of why he has been so successful.

It's pretty friggin' cool to see a ball player from Woodland get written up in the New York Times:

“I love him,” pitcher Tim Wakefield said. “He gets it. He plays the game hard.”

Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman said that Pedroia, who was only 130 pounds as a freshman at Arizona State, had impressed him, too.

“All he’s done is what they’ve asked of him,” Cashman said. “He’s never failed anywhere.”

While Pedroia was growing up in Woodland, Calif. [w00t!], he said his older brother and his parents constantly reminded him that, “You’ve got to play hard every day because you don’t know how long you’re going to play.”

Go Little Pedro!

Look how firmly my feet are planted on the ground as I attempt to run down the birdie.  I'm like a gazelle mired in a tar pit.

As in Mathematics, I am better at theory than application.

I’m a big Wayne’s World fan, and by extension a Bohemian Rhapsody fan, so when I saw this video, I was floored:

Ah, to be young and talented…

My commute this morning was NOT one of those times.

See, they recently opened up a new road just off of my usual route.  Ever the adventurer, I thought, "Hey, why not?  I've got an extra 17 minutes to spare."  My hope was that this new road would give me a super-secret, Stonecutters-esque shortcut to my workplace.  You know, a secret underground tunnel, accessible to only a privileged few, that avoids the traffic jams and the crazy-ass (and yet, maddeningly slow) Sun City drivers?

Nope.  I ended up in Lincoln.

So what should have been an instantaneous time warp that shaved 10 minutes off of my commute, ended up taking me an extra 30 minutes.

I'm a firm believer that you should take risks in life. 

And I hold this belief knowing full well that at some point, taking one of those risks will make you look like a jackass.

The captions in the video explain it all.

WARNING: language NSFW

[h/t to Mike L.]

Bear Grylls:  The World’s Last Honest Man:

[Via WWTDD]