Day 207: Padres Strike Out… Again.

 

July 26th, 2011In the second baseball game I have ever been to in my life (this time at night), the Padres once again proved to be a terrible team to root for. I spent the majority of my day in the morning at Environment, Health, and Safety, this time migrating to the 401 office for some wonderful office shredding. I shredded roughly four trash bags worth of documents, and there’s still a whole lot left to do tomorrow! Afterwards, I met up with Geetha at the Ralph’s shopping complex and we subsequently splurged on more spending at Pier 1 (with the 10 dollar coupon we attained yesterday through facebook). I purchased a nice piggie bank and a few plates while Geetha bought some sort of container-type box. We parted our separate ways as I went back home to watch an episode of Breaking Bad and get ready for the baseball game.

Pam went ahead and picked me up at my apartment, and we began by eating dinner right before the game downtown at Crab Hut. It was happy hour, so every chicken wing was only 50 cents, so I subsequently brought 6 chicken wings, some “mixed fries”, and chowed away my delicious meal. We looked for free parking, she parallel parked, and we walked to the Petco Park stadium, arriving 4 innings late. I snapped a picture for my picture of the day, and encountered one of the worst baseball games ever. Just like a few months back when I went for the ICRA event, the Mariners owned the Padres. Today, things were no different, as I was literally rooting for the Diamondbacks due to how much the Padres failed. I encountered Tori, Melvin, & Alex while there (three of my former ThinkTogether co-workers). Me and Pam had a second dinner through the form of a hot dog and some terrible hot chocolate during the game, and she dropped me off shortly thereafter. I spent the rest of the night chilling and playing more Tetris.

On this day in 1775, the U.S. postal system is established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general. Franklin (1706-1790) put in place the foundation for many aspects of today’s mail system. During early colonial times in the 1600s, few American colonists needed to send mail to each other; it was more likely that their correspondence was with letter writers in Britain. Mail deliveries from across the Atlantic were sporadic and could take many months to arrive. There were no post offices in the colonies, so mail was typically left at inns and taverns. In 1753, Benjamin Franklin, who had been postmaster of Philadelphia, became one of two joint postmasters general for the colonies. He made numerous improvements to the mail system, including setting up new, more efficient colonial routes and cutting delivery time in half between Philadelphia and New York by having the weekly mail wagon travel both day and night via relay teams. Franklin also debuted the first rate chart, which standardized delivery costs based on distance and weight. In 1774, the British fired Franklin from his postmaster job because of his revolutionary activities. However, the following year, he was appointed postmaster general of the United Colonies by the Continental Congress. Franklin held the job until late in 1776, when he was sent to France as a diplomat. He left a vastly improved mail system, with routes from Florida to Maine and regular service between the colonies and Britain. President George Washington appointed Samuel Osgood, a former Massachusetts congressman, as the first postmaster general of the American nation under the new U.S. constitution in 1789. At the time, there were approximately 75 post offices in the country….. STILL FEDEX/UPS > USPS.

House switchboards have been flooded by phone calls — nearly twice the normal average — and hit with an unusual volume of constituent e-mails as voters voice their concern over the worsening debt-ceiling crisis. At least 104 of 279 congressional websites surveyed by CNN were down or had experienced slow connections on Tuesday, after President Obama’s speech Monday night. TOO FUNNY…

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