Yesterday I went to see the New York Yankees play the Baltimore Orioles. This was my first Baseball match and to be honest, I wasn’t very impressed.

It was an exciting game to start with – lots of home runs and balls flying into the crowd but after the 4th inning, I started to realise it was like watching a match between Chelsea and Hastings United. The Yankees made it look so easy and the Orioles looked as if they had given up and accepted they were going to lose this match big style.

If the game had finished at the 5th inning, I would have really enjoyed myself but when i realised it went through to 8 innings, I was just bored. There wasn’t any excitement in the game and no moments when a single player did something inspiring. The match started at 7pm, by 9:30 they had stopped serving beer and at 10:30 at the 6th innings we decided we had had enough and left. The stadium was pretty empty at that point so we couldn’t have been the only people who were getting bored.

From what I understand, baseball is played three days a week and they play the same team on all of those days. I would not go to see baseball every week let alone three times a week, its good for a one off event but I would be bored spending 4/5 hours watching a game. I get bored towards the end of football matches and they are only 90 minutes long!

One highlight of the game was the sand raking people who danced to the YMCA as they raked. I tried to get some pictures of them but I was sitting right at the top of the seating area so everything seemed like little dots even with my cameras zoom.

The game wouldn’t have taken so long had it not been for all the adverts and faffing from both the teams, it seems to take them 15 minutes plus to swap over the batting and fielding roles and sometimes they would faff before throwing the ball, it makes the match very difficult and unexciting to watch.

The atmosphere in the stadium was better than i thought it would be, there were several whole stadium Mexican waves and lots of cheering when there was a home run or a famous player coming onto the pitch but there were no away fans. In football I often get annoyed with the away fans chanting rude things at the home fans but I felt the baseball stadium lacked in atmosphere because it was just filled with Yankees fans, there was not competition. I actually felt sorry for the Orioles, it can’t be good going to another clubs grounds, not having any fans there to support you and then losing horrendously.

I love people watching and sitting in Starbucks waiting for the latest WID fixpack to download is the perfect excuse for me to stare, mouth open, at some of the people around.

The strangest person in Starbucks today is the woman who has been standing at the counter for the past 20 minutes downing venti iced cappuccinos. As I am typing this, she is on her 7th. I wonder if she is going for a world record or just trying to have a heart attack.

Ooooo… she just turned around and saw me staring at her. She has cappuccino down the front of her top, I don’t think she was too impressed with my giggles – she’s left Starbucks carrying cappuccino 8 and 9.

What is it with Americans talking so loudly! There’s an American man shouting to his kids about wanting mummys breasts for milk, and everyone in Starbucks can hear. What a strange thing to say to a kid and even stranger to want to say it so loud that everyone can hear.

I’ve never understood American womens obsession with using mobile phones while doing something else. I have seen so many women come into Starbucks while on the phone and placing their order while still using it. Maybe I’m old fashioned but I find this incredibly rude.

Then there’s what every Starbucks has – the two women bitching to each other about their partners, mother in law and friends. And why do they need to say “and like” at the start of each sentence “and like his father is like…”. Arg!

All that coffee has gone to my bladder so its time to go home now and leave this mental asylum.

I’m not sure if I love Harry because of his shrek like looks, his really fit son (Jamie) or because he is a football manager love god.

Check out his latest picture on the BBC Sports website http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/5367852.stm, it made me giggle. Wonder how many flys he caught that day…

I have added a picture of Jamie to this post in case anyone wants to join me in drawling over him. How can a man as unpleasing to the eye as Harry, produce such a fit son!

Lee called me up today worried that I was stalking him again because on Andys site, “Lee Hollingdale MQ” had been searched for multiple times. Nope, it wasn’t me – I got a bit bored of stalking Lee so I’ve moved onto some one else ;o)

After the phone call, I thought I’d check my blog stats to see which google search had returned my site and these are the results:

- big busted grannys

- attractive grannys

- granny big boob

- Andrew Hollingdale

What is this obsession with grannys!! Maybe there is a huge demand in the market for granny sites and this could be a big money making opportunity for me…

Andrew – looks like you might be being stalked as well unless you were typing your name in google to see how famous you are ;o)

Why do American insist on calling public toilets bathrooms or restrooms when they are neither!

So far, I have never seen a bath in a public toilet (although I have seen some showers in the public toilets in France, but the French are a bit weird) and I defiantly don’t go into a toilet to have a rest. It’s a case of doing your business and then getting out again to have a chat/bitch with your girlfriend by the sinks. I wish Amercians would stop being difficult and just call it what it is… A TOILET!

As a child, my parents used to always tease me on how accident prone I was. If anything was going to be broken, 9 times out of 10 it was me who did it. Unfortunately, I don’t seem to have grown out of my accident proneness. People give me their computer programs to use and I always seem to break them (but not on purpose!), I’ve fallen over outside Grand Central station TWICE and I’ve smashed my much loved bottle of Branston pickle which took me ages to find in NY. All that in just a few weeks!

I’m starting to wonder if I should invest in a roll of bubble wrap to cover myself in to keep me and the rest of the world safe. Plus I have the bonus of when I get bored, I can pop the bubbles… hours of fun!

I was looking at my blog stats and someone came to my site after searching for “big busted granny”. First this made me laugh and then I started to think about it a little too much…

Do grannys still have a bust? I always though that once you reached 60, they fell to your knees and were never to be seen again.

Why would anyone be interested in seeing a granny’s bust? Surely a fit 20 year olds bust is more attractive? But i guess men are a bit strange so maybe there are guys out there who like granny’s.

Does this mean my blog is now a porn site?

Andy – Every time I search for something Message Broker related in google, you’re blog comes up within the top 5. How did you manage that!? You’re often higher than IBM!

I have been suffering with bloggers block the last few weeks, I can’t seem to think of anything interesting to write on here. I think I’m trying a little to hard so expect the next few posts to reflect my spaghetti mind filled with ramblings, moans and fluffy stuff.

Besides lots of drinking with work colleague and training to be a consultant, I haven’t really done much lately. I found that my new favourite drink is Sake, a really nice Japanese drink and Sushi is actually yummy even though its raw.

Its great being able to try foods and drinks from different cultures, back in Salisbury unless you want a curry (there much be at least 30 Indian restaurants in the small city) there is very little choice. When I get back to the UK, i will have to explore London more there must be some good restaurants around with authentic food from other cultures?

My tip of the week – try Tofu. I had never eating it before because I used to think it was just for vegetarians and wasn’t as good as meat but I’ve had it a few times while in NY and I have fallen in love with it.