The Department of Useless and Ill-Informed Opinions

Be back soon...

I know, I said I'd have some stuff to say within a couple of days of being back from Germany.

And now it's been two weeks and I haven't said anything.

I do have lots to say. I've been amassing a list of shit I want to talk about.

But, things are a little nuts at the moment. October is typically a very busy month for me, socially speaking. And with my team in the running, well, it's that much more.

I'm trying my damnedest to remain rational, as I watch this fantastic season I've just seen fly by begin to crack at its foundations right in front of my eyes. I've never been (and I don't want to become) one of those Fever Pitch-esque types who live and die by their teams' every moment; those people who obsess over each nuance of each game. And I think that while I've been watching intently, either by TV or in person at Shea Stadium, I've been good and have decidedly not been That Guy.

However, it is affecting somewhat my ability to concentrate on extracurricular activities, such as writing. If I had to guess (or at least hope), my money says it's more from the consecutive late nights out than it is from my mind spinning with permutations of postseason outcomes. But whatever the root cause it's fucking my shit up, to put it succinctly.

Tuesday night, the first off-day for the Mets in almost a full week (though they're talking about the possibility of another rainout on Monday night), is a good target for me to say a little something more. I'm exhausted by the NLCS. I can't even imagine how the players must be feeling.

Back...

So, I'm back (and fully recovered) from the trip.

The Zurich layover turned into a marathon, going to something like 6 or 7 hours, though time started to blur after a while. And no, it wasn't blurring due to alcohol. Or at least not much of it.

No, drinking was saved for Munich, and drinking was indeed done in Munich. Not quite as much, from a sheer volume perspective, as two years ago. But it was a respectable showing nonetheless. Pictures should be up on my Flickr stream this week, and I'll make note of that when it happens. I took close to 300 shots, but many were doubles as I was fucking around with color overlays and B/W and all that good stuff. I will say that having only glanced through them so far, I'm very happy with some of them, specifically the ones I took at the Olympic Stadium from the 1972 Summer Olympics.

I'm going to try to get those up there, and also get some more comprehensive posts up to both here and Inactual Size, but this week is nuts. New dodgeball season begins, and of course, so do the baseball playoffs, and I'm going away again this coming weekend. So, more later certainly, hopefully tomorrow.