Sunday evening
This entry was posted on 12/3/2006 6:24 PM and is filed under blather.
I'm back down in the basement dungeon even thought the laptop is back. It's just that Zack spent the day down here, cleaning, organizing, throwing out crap (goodbye, ab-roller!) and now instead of a dungeon, it's a lovely, clean, well decorated room. Turns out that in addition to all his other talents, Zack has a real gift for hanging groupings on the walls. He hung all out sports and school related stuff down here. We have lots of Twins stuff from the days when Ty was a bat boy, including a signed poster of Brad Radke, an autographed photo of Kirby Puckett, and like most Twins fans, a framed homer hanky and the front page from October 26, 1987, when the Twins won their first series.
We lived in Havre, Montana at the time and all our friends worked for Budwieser, so they were rooting for the Cardinals. We were here in 91, when the Twins did it again, but we didn't frame anything from that year.
This year we added a retro poster that was put out; a reprint of the teams schedule from 1961. Ours is signed by Harmon Killebrew, who was the first famous person I was ever aware of. Long before I knew the name of the President of the United States, or the names of all four Beatles, I knew who Harmon Killebrew was. That poster is upstairs.
Zack also hung the team plaques from the years when Tyler played for Jay and Zack was the official team videographer. There are two plaques from the years Ty coached with Jay and a very cool plaque from the year that Tyler's River Falls team won the WIAC championship. In adition to all that, Zack found and hung several academic awards that Tyler and Katie won over the years. He saved one big wall for his King Kong poster that he wants to have framed. It's a pretty cool poster and goes well with all the movie posters we have down here, too. Last, but definitely not least is the Beatles Abbey Road poster that Josie bought me at the school's book fair. It's framed and hung right over the computer. Nothing but the classics for us; Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and the Beatles.
It just occurred to me that anyone who walked into this room would get a pretty acurate idea of who lives here, without seeing any of the rest of the house.
No wonder I like it so much now.
We have to get some kind of a bed for down here, or Tyler will have no place to sleep when he comes home for Christmas.
Welcome home, kid. Here's a sleeping bag; there's the basement. Merry Christmas!
Speaking of bed, the temperpedic mattress cover we put on ours is quite possibly the greatest invention in the history of mankind. It's the most comfortable thing I've ever felt or imagined feeling. I'm a really good sleeper but I usually wake up several times a night because whatever I'm sleeping on hurts; knees, back, shoulders, whatever. Not anymore. I can sleep on my face and my back doesn't ache, or on my side and my shoulder doesn't dislocate itself. I can't tell you how many times I've waked up because my elbow felt hyperextended. Not with the new magic bed. Perfect support and comfort, no matter how you like to sleep. It's unbelievable.
Sounds like Jay has finished building dinner. (Doesn't that sound more manly than "cooking"?). I'd better go. It would be rude to be late.
