As you know I live in the center of my city. It's not a big city, but it's center is busy. Cars drive by at all hours honking horns or blasting radios. Sometimes car alarms go off. Sometimes teenagers gather and yell things at each other in the dark. Sometimes the chirping of the walk signals seem endless. Somehow I don't mind, I like the noise. I can generally sleep through anything and in fact, I have trouble falling asleep if it's too quiet.

At exactly 4:43 am this morning I awoke to joyful shouting below my window. I'm guessing the newspapers for the day had just been delivered because a voice shouted, "Read all about it, the Red Sox are going to the World Series!" This was followed by intermittent whooping. I wanted to open the window and yell expletives because I was trying to sleep. At least he was yelling good news.

This afternoon we've been having trouble making calls from our office. Our technical guy informed me that he called our phone company and as it turns out, the problem is affecting the whole northeast, not just our company. He asked that I send out an email to everyone so they would know. Within 30 seconds of my email I got no less than seven replies from various coworkers suggesting that the problem might be caused by the fact that World Series tickets went on sale at 3:00.

All anyone wants to talk about today is baseball but it sure feels good.
  ¶ 4:03 PM