With nothing better to do after work today, I decided, on a whim, to walk over to the bus station and catch a bus to the ballpark. Why not? Today was opening day in the Northwest League, which the Spokane Indians are a member of. The Northwest League, along with the New York-Penn League, are short-season Class A league, where many fresh-out-of-college draftees end up.
Monthly Archive for June, 2008
I may not be posting much in this blog, but damnit, I’ve got plenty of photos.
Yeah, I’ve been messing around with Photomatix Pro (for those HDR shots) and Autostitch to do the panoramic images. Gimmicky, but fun.
I’ll most likely be updating that Spokane photoset throughout the summer, so keep checking that out for updates, I suppose.
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Also of note is that my previous post, Small World, was picked up and mentioned by the STL Hops beer blog. Pretty sweet.
I owe you some stories from the first week, I know. I’ll get to that later, though.
Feeling sick of my small (and spartan) apartment, I wander around town tonight, looking for something to do. I’d felt a bit too much of a stranger, just wandering downtown the past few days… Most of downtown just seems a bit too upscale for me — at least, on a night like tonight — so I go a bit off the beaten path: downtown, but not quite the city center. I stumble upon the Empyrean Coffee House, this little coffee shop / bar / music venue just a few blocks from where I live…
Really reminds me of the places I used to hang out at back home. You know, the Blue Fugue, or Lakota, or the Cherry Street Artisan… Soulful music — and by that I mean your smalltime touring musicians and local artists — really nice people, and a little artsy/cultured/counterculture (that’s a weird mix, I know) feel to the establishment.
I walk up to the bar and get myself a beer. One man at the bar immediately notices the St. Louis Cardinals hat I’m wearing.
