Let me explain. No.. is too long, let me use bullet points.

[gridlore]

• I was planning on doing a post about my return to work, but realized that I had been lacking any real updates recently


• So you get a Random Shit post.


• Healing continues. Still some soreness around the largest of the six incision points. But overall doing well.


• The toes I smashed while on disability are also healing. Obviously not broken, but I'm still limping around. I would do this to my driving foot, right?


• Dreading how I'd handle to the return to the work schedule, I went to bed very early last night. This turned out to be wise.


• Going back was easier than I expected. A fairly light, but long, day helped.


• How long? 2 stops in Milpitas, 2 stops in Livermore going out, drop in Modesto, pick-up in Stockton, pick-up in Livermore, and a drop in Walnut Creek.


• It's that Walnut Creek drop that killed me.


• I wasn't even in my truck. Evidently no one told the crew that loads them that I was coming back, so all the LV material was loaded in Raul's truck.


• But I survived, and learned that one of our sales dudes also had his gall bladder out about this time last year... after a massive attack on Christmas Eve!


• Re-learning food is progressing. Saturday we ordered a pizza strike. I ate an entire pepperoni and sausage pizza, less one slice, with not a hint of trouble. Huzzah!


• I think I may have found the guy who did my tattoo after all these years.


• Seen driving down 680 in Fremont, a Ford truck with a terribly drawn advertisement done on the back window in those markers that have become so popular. Off-center, poorly-proportioned, badly composed. But that wasn't the worst.


• In giant block letters he was proudly announcing that he was "Forever You're's Tattoos"


• No, I didn't get a picture.


• Great news from the baseball world, Giants' (and Sunday Night Baseball) announcer Jon Miller has been named the recipient of the Ford Frick Award.


• That gives us three microphones on our Wall of Fame inside the park, Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, and now Jon.


• 16 days until pitcher and catchers report in Scottsdale!


• GO GIANTS!


• Oh, one of Jon miller's great moments.. Ruben Rivera and the "Worst baserunning in history." Enjoy!

Comments

[john-appel.livejournal.com]

Good for Jon Miller. I used to love listening to him and Chuck Thompson call Orioles games when JM was here in Baltimore.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Some days, we pray for a rain delay just so Jon will have a chance to talk more.

I think my favorite moment was a Giants-Astros game that was uninspired to say the least, and had no score going into the 7th. Jon found more ways to announce the 0-0 score than I thought possible. Several times an inning. When the Giants finally scored a run, Jon acted like it was the single greatest achievement in history, then took the time to remind Giants fans of what a run was and what it meant to the game.

[grimmwire.livejournal.com]

In giant block letters he was proudly announcing that he was "Forever You're's Tattoos"

Hilarious!

[allensh.livejournal.com]

Jon Miller rocks...and is an avid Strat-O-Matic player.