random ramblings

I have a friend who pokes fun at my emailing prowess... well, I call it prowess. He, and others, might call it over-the-top-ness, or something like that. But baseball season has gotten the best of me. My emails have actually been just what's needed and to whom, and I failed on my promise to copy him to each and every email I send out that has anything to do with anything on our kids' baseball team.

After talking with his wife, I realized he'd been spared a lot of details in recent weeks. I felt an urgency to remedy this. I wrote an email saying just this and his response is reprinted here without his permission and therefore without his name:
"Yeah. I have really been missing those rambling non-sensical emails of yours. There is a void."

The sarcasm wasn't lost on me, but neither was the opportunity... glorious, gratuitous opportunity! That's all I needed. So, I sent him the following, copied here as it was sent (names have been omitted or changed; no, they've just been changed for grins... that's way more fun):

"yeah so, anastasia gave us the invite for burgers and swimming saturday. didn't even realize you guys had a pool... lotsa fun. but we're taking a boat out that day... our last hoorah with the boat club because we think we won't do it this year... will have to see how our summers play out as the boys get bigger. so i requested a rain check... please! she was like, of course. ok, so after throwing around the 28th, 29th and 30th, the powers that be have decided on the 30th for the final (team name here) soiree, an email about which should be going out as i type but i'm presently busy with more important matters... but mark my word, an email WILL be forthcoming i can promise you this. i've got sign-up sheets ready to go and you don't want to know about the... well, i can't quite tell you that part, but... all in good time. so the 30th it is. i guess the darrens will play it by ear for tomorrow's practice... we KINDA had plans tomorrow night (maybe a movie) but nothing too solid. baby darren's in a bit of a hitting slump for sure. what else... oh, i might start freelancing some for this lady in need of a writer/editor for her business's website. that's off the subject. but there ya go... consider the void nice and filled... your cup runneth over. good night!!!"

The point of this blog is that life is filled with opportunities to waste your time, and others', with nonsense in a way that hopefully brings an unexpected smile on another's face. Then again, even if he found it only slightly annoying, I still got a big smile out of it. Glorious opportunity indeed!