Sox!

Ethan and I made a trip to Fenway park this past Monday night (tickets given to Ethan from Lucy and Scott). The Sox were up against "The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim" (team motto: "We're Not Quite Sure Where We're From"). It was a total blowout; Sox racked up 17 runs, which was lots of fun to watch. There was so much hitting going on we had to leave after the 7th inning (it was already quite late, and it was a school night). Pictures:

The game featured huge home runs by Kevin Youkilis and Dustin Pedroia, plus lots of other singles and doubles. David Ortiz was nowhere to be seen, which is still sort of hard for me to get a grip on; he was such a dominant hitter before that it's hard to imagine him hitting .146 (or whatever the number is these days).

Thank you S & L -- it was a very enjoyable outing.

Reverse 911

Lexington has joined the ranks of towns that use a "reverse 911" calling system; we seem to be getting these calls on a regular basis now.  For a while only Amy's work phone would ring, but now what happens is that both the home phone and Amy's work phone ring at exactly the same time, and we get a recorded message from the town administration.

This last week we had a big kerfuffle as a result of a broken water main out in Weston; many towns in the Boston area (including Lexington) had to switch to backup water supplies, meaning that we had to boil all our drinking water for a while. Each day this week has included a new "reverse 911" call with a message telling us to "keep boiling your water".  All of the recordings feature a tired-sounding male voice and end with a rather surly directive: "Do not return this call". I detest machine-generated phone calls, but I suppose we will just have to put up with the R911 stuff (as a consolation, I suppose the surly guy is less annoying than the artifically perky/happy voices you hear when you dial a large corporation help line these days).