IOU.

Apologies for falling behind on blogging and my monthly stats. I've been quite busy these summer months. I work many, many hours throughout the week and the rest of my time has been divided between job hunting and two moves: one for myself next week and one for my mom when she's finally moving to England to join up with my dad. I've been keeping up with my stats on Excel but haven't had the time to put together the presentation part of it. So right now, I owe you stats for May and June, and hopefully I'll be back to blogging once the summer is on the decline. Hopefully employed with a non-seasonal job too.

April 2009.

The Texas Rangers fan.

A description of Texas Rangers fans as told by Will Leitch, founder of Deadspin, in his book God Save the Fan:

"Can't figure out why Roger Clemens never signed with them. Liked the younger, skinnier Sammy Sosa better. Confused how that whole "fire Buck Showalter, enjoy World Series title" strategy didn't work. Loves Chuck Norris and would like him to be the mascot."

I'd say that's pretty accurate, wouldn't you?

March 2009.

Your walk out song.

Baseball season is upon us and I can't wait. This is easily my favorite time of the year. The weather is gorgeous, the birds are singing, and the Coors Light guy is only a "Hey Beerman!" away. I find it so relaxing to go to a baseball game and just enjoy sights and sounds of the Ballpark. It helps when the Rangers win, but let's not kid ourselves here.

Something I've always found interesting in baseball are walk out songs. For those that are unaware of what that is (even though I'm sure all of my small audience are baseball watchers), the walk out song is played over the stadium sound system when a particular player goes up to bat. Generally players pick about 3 or 4 songs at the beginning of the season that they feel will pump them up as the walk out to the batter's box. Only about the first 10 seconds of the song is played, so they need songs that start out strong, or ones that they find inspirational to their lives.

I often find myself thinking "I wonder what I would use as a walk out song if I were a Major League player?" So, in anticipation of the upcoming season, I pulled together five songs that I think would be great "get psyched" songs for when I step up to the plate. (Hopefully the links will work. If not, feel free to Google them.)

1. "Supermassive Black Hole" -Muse
2. "Cobrastyle" -Teddybears
3. "Icky Thump" -The White Stripes
4. "Empty Like the Ocean" -Midtown
5. "Escape the Nest" -Editors

What songs would you pick to pump you up for your next at-bat? Post your five song playlist in the comments and lets see what psyches everyone up.

The hunt.

Well, finding a new job is going, but not quickly. So far I have put my resume in over twenty different email inboxes, but have yet to hear back from a single one. Silence is not a good thing to hear during these times.

Here's a quick breakdown of the hunt so far:

-24 applications

-16 cities (Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, Atlanta, Charlotte, Southlake TX, Irvine CA, Bellevue WA, Emeryville CA, Holliston MA, Morristown NJ, West Bridgewater MA, and London)

-10 states (Texas, Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey)

-2 countries (US and England)

-0 responses

Hopefully something will come around soon. I don't think my tax refund will be here in time for my next rent payment.

February 2009.