and your AL player of the Week......Kevin Millar?

The fast food spokesman for the Red Sox will probably be named AL player of the week. This week he hit over .600 with 6 homers 8 RBI. He has been a fan favorite until a couple of months ago when he has been going through a bad stretch of hitting so far this season and has been (until probably now) getting killed on sports radio on almost a daily basis.
 
As I right this The Sox are beating The Empire by 7 runs in the 7th. As the DNC starts tomorrow, there are many VIPs and others like John Kerry at Fenway looking to be seen as well as high ranking Democrats taking over the right field roof. What I find amazingly ironic is that there are so many security measures, road closings and the like for the Convention, and here the vast majority of them are in a open air stadium along with 30,000+ people with no way near the security level they will enjoy the next 4 days. What, terrorists don't like baseball? Obviously catching a game is more worth the risk than choosing the possible next President.
 
Speaking of road closures, I'm not looking forward to try getting and from The Gulag this week. My office is not near where they are closing the road, but the highway I take there is the "offical" alternative route, which means working through 3 times the traffic. Getting my butt there is hard enough emotionally without having to deal with this crap.  I just have to hold my nose until Friday when I the convention is over and I get to take the Mrs. out for a date for our anniversary.
 
Pretty schizo weekend, but not bad.
 
The family and I went out to dinner with Taz and his family for his birthday. We went to a chinese buffet that was pretty darn good. The girls after dinner were not themselves so the evening went somewhat downhill from there, but all is well now.
 
Today the older one went to a function for work so I spent a good part of the day with her boyfriend. We went for some driving practice (he has his permit), went bowling and then went to see The Bourne Supremacy. Bourne is not as good as the first film, but is a solid action film that is a favorite kind genre of mine, a semi-talky cloak and dagger spy thriller with no special effects and good old fashioned CGI-less car chaces. Next week's movie: The Village.