Happy to play sport?

Today I saw my first smile.....

On the face of a baseball player.

And there was a somewhat interesting end to the game between the Cardinals and the Astros. I have seen a few games in the last week or so and have come to the conclusion that none of the players are happy. I have a few ideas that might help the game become a bit more interesting and then maybe we might see some enjoyment on the faces of the players.

1. The bat needs to be made bigger and with a larger flatter hitting surface.
2. The advantage is too much with the pitcher, he should be made to bounce the ball before it reaches the batter.
3. Every time the ball is hit the player is caught out. The fielders should not be allowed to wear gloves and batters should be encouraged to hit along the ground more.
4. The game is not high scoring enough, batters should be allowed to carry on batting until they are all out, not just three of them. You could shorten the distance they have to run too. Some where in the region of 20 yards should be long enough.
5. Some better fitting pyjamas might make the players feel a bit better too.

I think that should help make for a more exciting game.

Famous disease

Apparently Lebron James suffered the same fate as me recently. See here.

I bet his car works fine though. And he probably didn't have to pay a copay to see his doctor.

Dumb Luck?

Thankfully the pleurisy cleared up within ten days or so and I got the go ahead last week to resume 'business as usual'
The car saga continues though. The brakes started to feel funny last week and all the warning lights would come on when first applying pressure on the brake pedal but then go off again. The car would seemingly stop as usual though. I took it for a free brake inspection at Brake Check. They worked for quite some time to try and find what the problem was and thought that it was the ABS control unit ($2500-3000) but could not be 100% sure. I must say I was impressed with them and will use them again should I need work done on my brakes. So I took the car to my mechanic and he charged me $120 to find out that it is indeed the ABS control unit that is broken (he quoted around $2000 to fix it). He recommended that I think about getting rid of the car as it wont pass its state inspection with the ABS warning light on.

So where is the luck in this story? you might ask. Well, having just been a dumass (see previous post) I had to get my car inspected only two weeks ago thus I have a year left to drive my car instead of the 3 months I would have had with my old inspection sticker!

Now I'm stuck with the decision of whether to go scrap heap hunting and try to keep this car running or just cut my losses.

Anyone have a ABS control unit for a 1994 VW Passat?