What's this? I take a hiatus from the blog and Frylock has nothing to say? What a bum. Not much going on around here, though Da Chimpz now have their baseball season under way. Cookie has a game tonight. He did pretty well on the field on Saturday, picking up some grounballs and getting the ball over to first. It was rainy and got cold; hopefully tonight's weather will be nicer.

Week before last I spent some time in bed with some crazy flu-like malady -- which gave me time to watch that classic film Fatso on DVD. Yeah, we're going to miss that great comedian. Steve is correct when he says "everything about that movie is fantastic." Quite true.

Alane used the Alston Brown recipe for carrot cake this weekend to make me a birthday cake. Came out pretty good. Guido professed surprise to hear that I liked carrot cake, and it made me wonder how I ever started eating the stuff (sounds like something I would avoid even trying). I'm pretty sure it goes back to high school when Andre and I would find ourselves at the cashier at Death Valley deli on the corner of 6th and 16th. On the cluttered counter, near the stack of black and white cookies, there would be small individually wrapped blocks of Nemo's cakes. For some reason we'd buy the carrot cake and it turns out I liked the stuff.

And the rest is history. That deli is still there (is really called Blue Valley, though).