Sunday 5 Mar 06

On the schedule today is a college baseball game. We are driving up to De Land, FL, home of the Stetson Hatters, where my sister's son Charley has a baseball scholarship. it's a 3-hour drive so i amuse us all by taking my computer and GPS-ing the route, you know, using navigation software for your pc like the kinds that are built-in to new cars. M&D were entertained by the voice telling when to make turns.

Unfortunately the Hatters lost, only getting 4 runs on 14 hits; the game ended on a fly out with the bases loaded. Charley doesn't yet get much playing time as he is only a sophomore and the current 2nd-base man is a senior; he expects to start more often next season. today tho he did pretty good:

Stetson 9th - PRUITT, Bri. popped up to ss. CRUZ pinch hit for PRUITT, Bra.. CRUZ walked. [Charley] OLSON pinch hit for TINDLE. OLSON singled to right field; CRUZ advanced to second. GOLLINER doubled to left field, RBI; OLSON advanced to third; CRUZ scored. JORDAN popped up to 3b. PARITZ reached on a fielding error by 2b; GOLLINER advanced to third; OLSON scored, unearned.

in the stands we joined my sister and her husband and her girlfriend and her husband; they all had to leave to get the girlfriend and hubby to the airport to go back to their home in michigan. i expect to spend more time with my sister this week. after the game we took my nephew out for dinner at sonic, a place i always wanted to check out, and went home. my laptop's batteries lasted till about 5 minutes after we got home, with liberal and judicious use of hibernate on the 120 miles we were on I-95.