Baseball in July

Last week, I played something resembling baseball with some of my friends. We didn't have enough people for a game, so we had a home run derby instead. We had such a good time with that that we decided to play some more baseball yesterday. We were going to play at a park that had baseball fields, but people were using them, so we went to another baseball field instead.

There were only five of us playing, so we took turns hitting. I was relegated to the outfield most of the time, where I had to throw and catch right-handed because nobody had a left-handed baseball glove. Since there were only as many as two of us out there at any given time, we didn't try very hard to catch any fly balls. We had 10 of them, anyway. But I did manage to make a pretty nice catch while I was running to my right and stretching my left arm over to my right side. (A right-handed player throws with his right hand and catches with his left, so this makes sense. Right-handed baseball gloves go on the left hand.)

We were out there for a few hours, after which I was sunburned like whoa. I didn't really notice it at the time, but my farmer's tan has gotten a lot worse, and it hurts. I wonder how people manage not to have farmer's tans. To mitigate this situation, I think I would either have to spend all my time tanning or stop going outside. Guess which one I would prefer. But wikiHow makes it sound so easy.

After that, we went to my house to cool down. Some of us swam in the pool. After that, we visited Kim on the job; she's a hostess at Bonefish Mac's. There was hardly anyone there, which I guess would be expected for a Sunday night, but I don't go to restaurants on Sunday nights very often, so I'm not sure. Apparently, no one else goes either. But the food was good. After that, we tried to decide whose house we should go to, and it turned out that my house was the only option. We rented Waiting... and Hot Fuzz and watched them at my house. It was about 12:45 in the morning when we were done, which was fortunate for me because I could just fall into bed when the others left.

My friend Nick wants us to play baseball again on Thursday. I'm looking forward to it. I was going to include a cheesy baseball-themed metaphor to go here, but I can't think of one. Imagine your favorite here!

Take this brief quiz to find out your News IQ. How much do you know about current events? I scored in the 83rd percentile.

Some people have had their cars for a long time. Matteo Ferrari re-creates old photographs of folks posing with their well-loved cars.

How much do you know about Benjamin Franklin? Here are 9 Things You Didn't Know About Benjamin Franklin.