"In his domestic administration my father had this system . . . to keep a journal and insert in it all occurrences of any note . . . A record very pleasant to look at when time begins to efface the memory of events, and very well suited to get us out of perplexity: When was such and such a thing begun? When completed? What retinues came? How long did they stay? Our trips, our absences; marriages; deaths; the receipt of happy or unhappy news . . . An ancient custom, which I think it would be good to revive, each man in each man's home. And I think I am a fool to have neglected it." (Montaigne, Book I, Essay 35 (publ. 1580))

Monday, July 09, 2012

Luche Libre

We worked with POC to arrange one last Dbacks game prior to All-Star break - PJ, CPG, PJr and I went Saturday evening, 7/7.  Big crowd - almost 37,000.  Dodgers are in first place, but they're not very good - especially right now, when their key guys are hurt.  Dbacks won handily.  Fun night - crowd was more alive than usual (perhaps because there was a goodly number of Dodgers fans keeping things stirred up).

And the give-away promo was original, and fun - "luche libre" - a form of pro wrestling - apparently they love to wear masks, as described here.  It was quite entertaining to see a big chunk of the crowd actually wearing these things.  POC stopped by with a couple masks for us (which was nice, since the "free to the first 15000 batch" was long gone by the time we arrived).  PJr seemed to like wearing the mask.  Prompting a grandmotherly-type in the row behind us to lace it up properly.

PJ even modeled the goods, as shown here.

It was a fun night. 


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