JSC decorates for Christmas — lights and banners and such. They also put four of those wooden, light-up deer out at the main guard shack, the kind that move their heads and stuff. Today as we came back from lunch, two of them were lying on their sides. “Robot deer down! I repeat: robot deer down!” George called gleefully.
See? That is a lunch conversation.
I’m currently trying to figure out if I have enough hours for the week to leave at 4. That would give me just enough time to go running for half an hour, shower, find a white elephant gift, and make it to the branch Christmas party at 6:30. The other issue? Whether to run outside or on the treadmill. It is COLD here today — and I really do mean cold, not Houston cold. It’s 38 degrees outside at 3:30, and the wind chill is 26! (I love having a weather station on top of my building.)
Treadmill it will be. I didn’t bring warm enough clothes for 26!
And finally, a couple thoughts on baseball:
+ The Astros have parted ways with Roger Clemens, at least until May 1. They didn’t offer him salary arbitration. He can retire, or he can sign with anybody else. It’s sad and unfortunate after the past two awesome seasons, but it was necessary. The Astros were paralyzed by Carlos Beltran last year, and can’t afford to let the same thing happen with Clemens. If Rocket can’t commit, the Astros need to start looking to spend that $20 million now, while there are good free agents still available.
+ The Braves signed Edgar Renteria to replace Rafael Furcal. I’m impressed!
