WHAT A WEEK!

This past week has been quite a week, at least for a fan of the Kansas City Royals.  As I have mentioned many times before, I am generally an early to bed person and then also an early to rise person.  Some nights when the Royals were playing I would go to bed but then could not go to sleep so I would get up and watch more of the game.  After doing this two or three times I ended up having some short nights at least as far as sleep was concerned.  

Finally when they were about to win the American League championship -- having won the first three games, I decided before the fourth game that I was going to stay with it until the end.  What a game that was as the Royals won 2-1.  They did a lot of celebrating that night but, once the game was over, I went to bed to get some sleep.

And then I got a big surprise on Tuesday morning when I got down to the nursing home.  The administrator called me aside and presented me with two tickets to the first World Series game.  That game will be played in Kansas City this coming Tuesday evening, October 21.  I asked the associate pastor here in Norfolk, Father Greg Carl, to go with me.  I knew Father as a student at Conception and he is a big baseball fan.  So we will drive to Kansas City on Tuesday.  After the game we will drive up to Conception Abbey and spend the night there before driving back to Norfolk on Wednesday.  

No wonder my blood pressure has been running a little high.  I saw my primary care doctor up here, Dr. David Lux, this past week and he increased my medicine a little for now.  I have never seen a World Series game and probably never expected to see one.  But, I guess we never know what will come in our lives.  God is good and gives us so many gifts in our lives.  Give me, Lord, a grateful heart always.  

Weather has been really nice up here the last days.  Typical fall weather with daytime temperatures in the 60's or 70's and then cool nights.  

This photo is taken from section 433 in Kaufman stadium.  Our 

seats are in this section.

So if you are watching the game on t.v. and see someone waving from the upper deck in right field, that's me.  

God bless all you readers.  

BIG WEEK FOR KANSAS CITY ROYALS

This past week has been a difficult week for getting enough sleep.  The Royals have played three games in the play-offs in the American League and every game has gone more than the regular nine innings.  So most nights I have had to go to bed before the game was over.  I get up every morning about 4:30 AM so need to get some sleep.  Of course then when I wake up during the night I have to check on how the Royals did and then have to go back to sleep.  That is not always easy, especially considering the way the scores have turned out.  Tonight they again play the Angels and if they win they will then go on to the American League championship games.

Kaufman Stadium ready for tonight's game.

We have had some rather cool days and nights during the past week.  Friday I turned on the heat in the house.  It is a little warmer today but still only in the 60's  

I am now working on a new computer.  A good friend of mine gave me a new computer and it is really very nice.  My old one was just about full, very slow etc.   My new one has Windows 7 on and is working very nicely.  It was recommended to me by a company here in Norfolk, that I not get Windows 8.1 as that is evidently quite different and complicated.  They recommended Windows 7 and I am very happy with that.

New computer set up in my office at Norfolk.

This past Thursday I stayed home and did not go anyplace on this day off.  I did three or four loads of laundry and even did the chapel laundry from the St. Joseph Rehabilitation and Care Center.  We needed someone to wash the small linens and since I have a washer and dryer as well as an ironing board and iron, I decided go ahead and do it myself.  It was actually kind of fun.

As most of you know, besides this blog I also have a site where I have many photos posted.  I thought I would put all that information here on this blog once again.

Blog site: http://kennethosb.blogspot.com
Photo site:  http://kennethosb.smugmug.com/