Explainations

First, due to the few requests I received, I need to refer back to last week’s entry and explain what my favorite punctuation mark is.  It is the comma.  I’m not sure if “favorite” is actually the best word to describe my relationship with the comma, because I’m not sure how fond of it I really am, but I am most interested by the comma because  it has the most rules and nobody really knows when and where to put it.  My thought process is that if I can learn to use the comma well, then I can do well on future grammar exams.  So that is why, currently, the comma is my favorite.

                This week I need to thank my sister-in-law, Julianna, for creating a new background for me.  She is currently in Illinois, as I understand, at the most prestigious cake-decorating school in the United States.  With the large snow storm, which is covering a good porting on the United States, she had one day of her classes cancelled.  After practicing a few cake-decorating techniques and other things to keep her from being board, she texted me Wednesday evening to tell me that she found several new blog backgrounds and wanted to know if I wanted a new one.  What she didn’t know is that I was waiting for her to come home before I asked her to help me find a new background.  So I was happy to look at several of the backgrounds that she had selected and to pick my favorite.  The baseball theme won because it was my favorite, but my plans to watch “Field of Dreams” (A baseball movie), later that night, helped it to be the definite winner.  Julianna also added the button (that is what she called it) that has the flashing quote that reads, “Life is a baseball game, When you think that a Fastball is coming, you gotta be able to hit the Curve.”  Julianna doesn’t understand what this quote means so she wanted me to explain it in this week’s blog entry. 

                In order to understand the quote you have to have to first understand that a fastball and a curveball are two different pitches in baseball.  In baseball the batter doesn’t know which pitch the pitcher is going to throw, and therefore, has to be able to adjust his swing if the pitch he thought the pitcher would throw is different than what is actually thrown.  The quote is trying to say that we can’t know what is going to happen in life, and when we expect one thing to happen, we have to be able to adjust when something else actually happens, otherwise, just like the batter wouldn’t hit the ball; we won’t achieve whatever it is that we are trying to accomplish when life throws us the “curveball.”  Hopefully this explanation helps to clarify to the few other people who will read my blog.