beisbol, traffic, and mozilla
I went to the USA vs Mexico World Baseball Classic game yesterday, which was a really cool experience. I met my dad there, and arrived just in time for the USA team to be announced. I have pictures that I'll upload soon. The game was full of annoying Mexico fans.. suddenly those Cubs fans don't look so bad, but they lost, so who cares.
After the game I went to the gift shop and practiced my mosh pit skills by getting through a crowd of a few hundred people in about 2 minutes to get in the door. I'm pretty positive I didn't make any friends there, but at least I got in. I bought a simple USA baseball t-shirt and I got Lori the purple Diamondbacks dragon she had wanted at the end of last season. After that I went to my car on top of the civic plaza parking structure and waited. Actually, I took pictures of the valley and the stadium, then talked on the phone to Lori for a bit. After 35mins or so traffic finally started moving, and I hit Jefferson going East an hour after the game ended.
Next, I spent over twenty minutes going from 7th st to 16th st on Jefferson (that's just over a mile for non-Phoenix people). Then another fifteen getting to University and 16th St where the two lanes of construction on 15th St became one. After that it was pretty smooth sailing and I decided to stop off at the Fry's on 24th St and Baseline. I was in and out pretty quick and then went to turn on to 24th so I could turn left on to Baseline at the light. There was a small problem though. This soccer mom idiot in a Suburban would not turn left. She had blocked the entire exit from the parking lot and just wouldn't get up the guts to turn. I sat there for over 5 minutes waiting for this woman to drive. It's people like that who shouldn't be given driver's licenses. At this point it was 6:30 and I thought I must be in the clear.
Oh no, that couldn't possibly happen. I next had the joy of sitting in traffic on Baseline and then on the slow drive around the Pointe on 48th St. So between the gift shop, the parking structure emptying, traffic, the grocery store, and people who can't turn left, it took me two hours and twenty minutes to get home from the game.
On the plus side, I got plenty of cool pictures from the parking structure roof that I will be sure to post.
On an unrelated note, I was just going through my web server logs, as I often do, and I tallied up what web browsers are being used to access this site. Well guess what, Mozilla (that includes Firefox and others) is the winner, by almost double. Take that Microsoft. Good to see most of you are using the right browser.