I sure did go out Friday night, this week.
I went to Fenway Park in Boston, and watched the Red Sox beat Baltimore 7-0; Hill pitched a 2-hitter complete game. I don't think shutouts are common in Boston.
Before that, I did some newspaper research at the library (successfully). I'm staying at somebody's farm for a couple days in western Plymouth County (about 20 miles west of the actual historic town)...I drove up to Braintree to park, rode in on the train, used some buses to get around, and finally came back. I don't have a helluva lot of mass-transit use in my personal history, so I'm still getting used to it, but it certainly allowed me to avoid the awful TWIN EXPERIENCES of driving around in Boston, and trying to park.
Actually it's been a busy week...Tuesday (a visit most of the day in southwest Maine) and Thursday (arriving here at the farm, after walking around Gloucester MA a while for the first time) were "lesser" days. Monday was a good part of the day inside the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown; Wednesday was getting my ass completely mauled by rather extreme hiking in Acadia National Park.
I used the Park's topographical map, and I determined that I climbed about 2,400 feet...and the trails are extremely rocky and faux-natural, unlike the well-groomed dirt trails you see in some Parks. There were literally thousands of opportunities, along the trails, to turn an ankle or something. Perhaps literally the most physical exertion in one day, in the entire lifetime that I've lived. I'm still "paying for it" two and a half days later with sore calves, etc., though that didn't deter me from the substantial walking both yesterday (in Gloucester) and Friday (in Boston).
Hey I'm 68 years old. I'm not SUPPOSED to be doing this shit, lol.
I had Buffalo wings and a bowl of chili before the game. The last couple days I've been eating a high protein diet, probably a good idea to help sore muscles heal. Weightlifters, et. al., eat this way often.
I'll spend at least part of today (Saturday) in Providence, to see Waterfire...but my "convalescence" will determine how much earlier I want to get to Providence and how ambitious I want to be walking around, haha.
I *NEVER* expected I'd be able to see a Red Sox game. I always understood that if you want to go to a September game and have any worthwhile seat at all, you had to buy a ticket in June or something. I went to the Internet, though, and it worked - getting me past the old dodgy and/or unreliable method of just showing up at the Park and HOPING to find somebody scalping a ticket, something that I was never willing to do in Boston. (Too much effort getting around the city, for a good chance of "striking out" so to speak.)
