It’s late on Tuesday evening, and Lauren, Roscoe, and I are chilling on the couch, watching the Twins play their most difficult opponent this season, the Seattle Mariners.  Despite the Mariners owning the league’s worst record, they’ve played the Twins extremely tough in seven games in August, and have jumped out to an early 2-0 lead tonight.  The Twins are in the middle of their longest road trip in nearly 40 years due to the Republican Convention being in town, and their road record is nothing to brag about.  The team really needs to go at least 7-7 in these 14 road games to stay in the race, I believe.  I have a really bad feeling about tonight’s game though.  I’m going to guess 9-1 Mariners.

If you’ve followed my Top 100 Country Artists Countdown, you’ll have to wait a while longer.  I have the top 25 list completed, but now need to write a little blurb about each.  I thought the first 3/4 of the list was pretty well-written, but I haven’t gotten in the “zone” yet when trying to complete my list.  I have to be in just the right mood so I can plow through it.  Maybe over the weekend.

Speaking of the weekend… no, never mind, that’s too far away yet.  I have no idea what we’ll do over my big three-day weekend.  A few ideas have been thrown around, like going to the Black Hills, or as Lauren just mentioned, going to Toronto.  But I think we’ll wind up sticking around here, saving our pennies.  I could make a trip home to claim my birthday present, but we’ll be right back there again at the end of September for Carpenter Bash V.  This year’s attendees are still very much up in the air.  There are only four I can say for certain are coming–me, Lauren, Jason, and Nick.  No one else has 100% said yes.  By the way, besides me, only Patrick and Jason can say they’ve been to each of the first four Bashes.

The big excitement of the week at work has been the launch of the new website.  Well, the continued preparation of the launch, anyway.  Josh and I have been spending every waking minute at the office entering products, writing copy, gathering spec, troubleshooting, redesigning, linking things… but I understand it will finally go live sometime between now and tomorrow morning.  Check out http://www.microboards.com for the new, bright, flashy site.  If you check and see a dingy purple and gray site, it hasn’t switched over yet.

Lauren and I made a quick bike ride over to the Wedge tonight to grab a few odds and ends.  Lauren has been suffering from a terrible toothache all day and figured she could only eat soup.  I picked up some beef intended for stir fry, and mixed it in with an assortment of our many CSA veggies which turned out pretty tasty.  And that’s where we are now.  The Twins just blew a good chance to tie the game, and I’m slightly angry.