Is this a medieval social network? I know its a woodcut from one of our rare books, but I feel a little like the guy at the desk, working away on some more follow-up after my journey through the 23 Things. I just spent a little more time on my del.icio.us site editing some of the tags that were created during the export/import process. I spent a fair amount of time with the tags that were imported, removing the "import" tag and putting something a little more meaningful in its place. In the process I learned some more about editing, went to a new site and used my new tag button on my browser to put that site into my database, found out a little bit more about bundling tags (which I haven't done, yet, but wanted to find out what it was all about) and generally had fun organizing my stuff.
I can definitely see how this is going to pay some dividends when I'm working on a computer at home or some place outside the office. It will be great not to have to worry about hunting through all the bookmarks (even though they were fairly well organized in folders) and to add new sites to the list as I continue to travel through the Web. I've also started to share more of my posts with the larger community and also think about those things that I'll keep private. Most of those sites will probably involve personal or work-related sites that don't have a wider appeal.
But soon the work week will be done and it will be time to turn my mind to other thoughts. Tonight I'm heading down the street to the Hubert H. Humphrey
Metrodome to watch the
Twins play the
Cleveland Indians. A couple of years from now we'll be able to enjoy baseball in the out-of-doors, where it should be played. Sure, on a night like tonight, it will be a little on the cool side, but I'm really looking forward to sitting in the new
stadium, watching the Twins. I'm guessing it won't be as noisy as the Dome (my Dad's ears were ringing for days after he went to one of the World Series games in
1991), but it will have its own flavor and atmosphere. Almost every day I go by the
site where the new stadium is being built. Its fun to watch it go up.
One of the things I try to do when I'm at a conference during the baseball season is to try and catch a game. When I was in St. Louis for the
RBMS conference a few years ago I saw the
Cardinals play one of their last games in the old
Busch Stadium. When I was in Denver long ago for an
SAA conference I saw the
Rockies play in
Coors Field. I'm hoping to maybe catch a Dodgers game when I'm in LA this summer for another RBMS conference (if the schedule and transportation allow). Maybe my attachment to ball fields goes back to my undergraduate days, when I'd sneak away to see the
Cubs play at
Wrigley Field. Or even farther back, when I was a young boy, when my friends and I would get one of our parents to drive us to old
County Stadium to watch the new team in town, the
Brewers. (Somewhere, in one my boxes or drawers, I have a foul ball that I caught off the bat of
Reggie Smith from the Boston Red Sox during batting practice.) Or when I was really young, at the fringes of memory, and went with my Dad and Uncle to a Twins game in old
Metropolitan Stadium. Baseball. . . its in the blood. Go Twins!
Like politics, there won't be many times when I interject my enjoyment of certain sports and teams into this blog, but I can't resist the opportunity to hype my Minnesota Twins. Last night's game against the Detroit Tigers was, truly, one for the ages. I've seen many games in my life and this one has to rank near the top. To use the cliché, both teams left it all on the field. This game is full of highlights and I hope the Twins or somebody in Major League Baseball puts that game on a DVD and offers it for sale. I'd buy a copy in an instant.
