Bikes, Baseball & Beyond

Here's a funny article about how people from different places around the world tend to get on their bicycles. Seems in US, people prefer to sit on the bike first and then start to move. Elsewhere, like in China, the correct approach as a skilled rider is to use the bike as a scooter to get some momentum before you jump on. Me, I tend to use the second approach.

Did you hear this story about how NASA lost the video of the original moon landing? They're currently looking for it because they wanted to digitally enhance it and they seem to have misplaced it. More fodder for conspiracy theorists that say it was all faked, eh? And speaking of space, did you hear that Cape Breton in Nove Scotia is building a new private space port?

I'm heading out this coming Sunday to the Grand Valley women's prison in Kitchener. I'm going with the worship team from my church to do some ministry there. I know I've mentioned this before but I missed our last opportunity in the beginning of April and I've been looking forward to this trip ever since then.

I've been playing on the GTA "C" Team this summer in our church baseball league. The top three teams in each division go to the playoffs. Each year, the A and B teams have gone to the playoffs but the C team never has. This year, we maintained third place for the first three months but we have faltered down the stretch in August. In the span of only two weeks, we lost three of four games and dropped from third to fifth. With only two weeks remaining, we still have an outside chance but we sort of feel like the Blue Jays right now. Heh.

I've been pitching most of the year, except for the six weeks that I was out while on crutches. This past Monday, my mom and my distant cousin Chris showed up unexpectedly at my game and my mome got a few action shots of me. Enjoy!