Coffee After 6PM is Never Good For Me

It's been a rather busy and awesome last few days. In a preview of yesterday's OSU/Navy game we saw this behind a High Street restaurant a few days ago.



Nothing like burning a couch to get pumped up for the first game of the season.

Friday night we celebrated the gorgeous early September weather by going to Schiller Park to see Actor's Summer Theater's presentation of Shakespeare's As You Like It. We brought some beverages, a blanket, and with friends took up a comfortable space in the park. The interpretation of the play had a twist, some of the actors were puppets. I was especially impressed with the Wrestler in the first act.



The acting was sound, better than many of the previous plays I've seen this troupe do. The use of the horn fanfare of Rocky J. Squirrel's from Bullwinkle gave me a good chuckle each time it was used to bring the Duke on stage. Well played.

It was after intermission when the play fell apart. Not the fault of the actors, but the play itself. Characters were introduced for no other reason than to extend the show. Nothing was happening for many scenes and I was grateful it finally ended.

Got to find a nice feed to the Scotland/Macedonia soccer game yesterday morning. It was raining at Hampden as the home team ended up winning 2-0. The victory keeps Scotland's slim hopes at making the World Cup going for another four days. On Wednesday they play a very tough team from the Netherlands. Even if, and I say if, they beat the Dutch they're still going to need help to make it through to the next round. But for now, there's hope.



Yesterday afternoon the Scottish Wife and I went to the city's new metropark. The Scioto Audubon Park is just south of downtown, next to the impound lot. The main building is a marvel of green engineering and architecture from its recycling of rainwater to geothermal heating; quite impressive. The park is still being developed. It looks and feels too new in parts. Once it weathers itself in it will be a standout park in an already fine Columbus Metro Park system, and there are herons!



It was one of those days in which I really liked the city I call home. We kept taking advantage of the weather to venture out to the Gallery Hop for dinner and people watching and we were not disappointed.



With the Buckeyes hanging on to beat Navy, folks were in a good mood. We saw a few people I had not seen in years, some fine looking Navy men in their dress uniforms and crowds of people on High Street. This month there seemed to be more musicians than usual. They were spread out so that every 100 feet you heard a new sound, a different type of music. Hearing the city's diversity kept the good mood going.

Then I came home and there was a nice surprise in my inbox. All I'll say is that I've been enjoying the remastered Beatles catalogue, and that side two of Abbey Road is glorious.