Cheese and Fish Hooks????

Today I stopped in at Vons grocery store in Mammoth and was totally perplexed about how these two items ended up next to each other. First was the fishing gear section nothing abnormal about that. But what is right next to it was Velvetta Cheese followed by the chips and cookie section. What is out of place here?

Yeap Velvetta Cheese is stocked next to fish hooks and lures. Odd I have to say especially when's there a whole section devoted to cheese a few asles away, what type of person would go into to a grocery store and think hey I need some cheese for my crackers and walk out with fish hooks instead? I don't know, but i have never thought of buying these two items together. But I guess at Vons they somehow think there will be lots of impluse buying by fisherman picking up that Velvetta cheese that didn't know they needed to catch that monster trout they've been after all year. Yeah that's it....Anybody that has a guess why they are together feel free to leave a comment.

Books and writing.

Maybe all the books I have and read have something to do with taking so many English classes throughout college and high school. What I am kidding they did. With out them I wouldn't have been a defacto English major. In fact if wasn't for books and gaming I would have had a very tough time making it through those years. For with out the ability to book up a good book and take the time to enjoy the journey to far away places and places down the street, where good guys were able to take down the bad guys, get the girl and go fight the battles that needed to be fought. Or just explore the journey to different time periods where different eras, ideas and notions were explored. And no matter what was happening in real life there is always a book that takes you to another place and time. In fact I don't have a problem reading almost any book, but most of my books that I have are about baseball, many sci-fi and fantasy books that point me along the way, some history, many classics and some Christian books and novels. (Though I avoid many of those books because well simply put they suck, but they are a few good ones out there) and I can't forget about comic books. Don't diss them, some of the stories are better than any other books out there.

Of course there are definitely some bad ones out there like any other genre. Those usually end up in the quarter bins. In the last several years, I also read many books about writing and several screenplays to help my writing along. There's nothing better than reading a screenplay and figuring out what is working and not working in the play, while not having to listen to hours of lectures about writing. Instead of talking about being a writer just write damn it!

Any way, here's a few a books that have made an impact on me.

Nueuromancer by William Gibson, The ultimate cyberpunk novel that described the Internet before it exploded into real life. This book with it's all it denseness painted a world for me that I wanted to be jacked into and not this world.

The Hardy boys: The teenage detectives were some of the first books I read by myself when I was eight or so. They were so cool that what boy wouldn't want to go off and become a gumshoe detective and read the series

Stolen Season: A Journey through a baseball's and America’s minor leagues. This book is one my favorite baseball books of all time. Written by then LA times writer David Lamb, Lamb sets out and spends the 1989 season traveling in a Winnebago all around the country checking out cities and baseball stadiums across the country. Throughout his journey he does it right unlike a few other books that chronicle fans journey to 30 different parks in 30 days. He stops and meanders throughout the us, staying a week or more at some places and others just a day or two. In doing so he gives a glimpse into America that few ever get.
This book might have something to do with wanderlust and search for the best minor league park.

I could easily list many more but these are just a few.

For some things I am in the wrong town for...

With the snow rapidly melting here in Mammoth Lakes, CA everyday you see something different that you had no idea that it was there before because it was buried beneath several feet of snow during the winter. It is amazing to see the town come alive and finnally see signs of spring and hints of summer around. With busy part of the ski season over, the town is pretty quiet and that is a good thing. After a crazy winter it is nice to have the town back from the million people from LA that don't know how to drive in snow.
But it means a whole different things for me. Ever since June Mtn closed and I made the decision to stick around here for summer I can't help but look at the map and plan trips to ballparks and go hiking all over the place. Right now it's tough I didn't quite realize how much I miss picking up and heading off to a new place every five to six months. But for once I staying put for now. In fact the question that I've been thinking about alot recently is "Why are you here? and where are you going?

Am I still in Mammoth because of a relationship that's nothing much going with, or is there something much more going on that I'm still around for that I don't know about yet. And for the where are you going part, And since I've stopped at a Lancaster Jethawks game on my way back from a week in NY. I know what I want to do and that I want to get back into game(that's baseball) and get paid to be around the ballpark everyday.
But those jobs won't open up until the fall. Tell then I'm just hanging out seeing what's instore and planning the next baseball game. And then's the job I just appiled for in Butte MT which would have nothing to do with baseball. It's going to intresting to say the least.