Tomorrow morning, we'll load up head to Chicagoland again to visit my sweetie's mother, my 25th trip there since beginning this replay. I can probably get a complete World Series replay done in the time it takes her to get ready) (Okay, guys, you know what I'm talking about. I can get a quick game or two in while Holly does the make-up and hair routine in preparation for going out.
I have learned to really, really hate the alarm clock, having to rely on to wake up each day.īut the game is still there and I can find some time to keep rolling. Since then, I've found another newspaper gig and I have a second job to help make ends meet. Must have been all those drives to Chicago.Ī year later, I was laid off of my newspaper job and took a huge financial punch to the gut. I've gotten much better, but there are still days when I feel pretty rough.Ī car I had for eight years finally gave up the ghost and died in October 2016. Then, two months later, I got pretty sick and ended up in the emergency room where doctors talked about kidney infections and possible cancer and organ issues and all. It was a great way to welcome a northern girl to Arkansas: turn off the air and let the summer heat take hold. I had a life.Ī month later, the air conditioner in the house conked out. In June 2016, less than a year after this replay began, she moved to Arkansas with me. I drove up there 17 more times in about eight months. A month later, I drove up there to meet her and promptly fell head over heels. I planned to toss a few games to kick off the season before heading to bed.Ī week later, I called a girl who lived just north of Chicago who I had met through a mutual friend. It was a Sunday and I had spent the weekend getting the lineups and schedules ready. 16, 2015, in the quietness of my still home. And maybe, somewhere down the road, I'll be replaying the 2018 season, replicating my future, which by then has become the past.
We recreate something that has happened before as we play the games - in my case something that occurred 27 years ago - while forging ahead into new events. While we roll the games and look at the past, we move into the future each day. It's part of the journey that these season replays take us on. Since this season kicked off, I found love in northern illinois, lost a job I had for nearly 20 years, got two more jobs, bought a new air conditioner for the home, bought a new car, went to the emergency room for a health issue that's still giving me issues and got older. It's the slowest I've ever progressed in a replay and I have plenty of reasons. Texas, and be about two-thirds through the season.
If I have time after work tonight, I'll roll game 1,414 in the season, Milwaukee vs. Three years ago this past Thursday, I began the 1991 APBA baseball replay I'm currently rolling and will probably be involved with for a while.
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