Relative Something

Ability to suspend disbelief: limited
Baseball team: still ahead
Football picks: already made
Lawn: mowed
Wife: working next to me
Dinner: awesome
Clean clothes: not put away
Current chair: an exercise ball
Crime television script: inane
Crime show actors: credit for trying
Tree from Hayward: transplanted
Baseball again: lead shrinking
Crickets: still sound like summer
Temps: still feel like summer
Summer: over
Convertible fall colors trip: planned
Spare tubes for my bike: none
Bike trip planned: Saturday
Reasons for hope: plenty
Reason to smile: don’t need one
Twins chance of catching Tigers: yes
Concern about H1N1: none
Children home from Chicago this weekend: one
Odds I would mess with Sasquatch: slim
Number of runs lead handed to Nathan in the 9th: 2
Number of times cat meowed incessantly: too many
Number of brothers in town from Brainerd: 1
Plans for sibling gathering over pizza: you bet
Gathering agenda: 2010 reunion
Number of base runners Nathan allowed so far in the bottom of the 9th: 2
Minutes until I don’t give my liver enough overnight healing time: about 40
Odds I want to read this list again in the morning: hardly
Curious how many of you will bother to read this far down this silly list: uh huh
Twins victory over Chicago: achieved after all
Time for bed: yes