Went to a Frisco Roughriders baseball game last night. We lost, but
rallied at the end and almost won. The Roughriders are our local minor
league team. I am not really a fan of baseball, but our church group was
going so I figured it could be fun. Baseball is a little better in
person than it is on TV. A guy sitting near me caught our only home run.
I looked up and saw the ball heading in my general direction and
wondered if it was going to hit me. My problem with baseball stems from
childhood. I would play catch with the other kids but never could figure
out how it works. Even though I am left-handed I do everything with my
right hand in baseball. For instance if I was to catch a baseball I
would do it with my right hand. Then I would have to take the glove off
and throw with my right hand. I'll have to ask my neurologist chief
resident sister how the brain works like that. I heard that there is a
"normal" left-handedness where you always favor your left hand and
another kind that has to do with brain damage or something, and another
kind that has to do with brain damage or something. I think really I am
left fingered and right handed. Like my fingers that control the pencil
are nimble on the left hand and my general hand movements are right
handed. Then again since I play left-handed guitar my finger-tips on my
right hand are way more nimble. Ok, I am right-handed, left-fingered and
right finger tipped. Someone invariably says," why don't you try writing
with your right hand." Then I try it and it looks like chicken
scratches, even though so does my regular writing. So sometimes I say I
am ambidextrous, but I guess that is not true since I think you have use
both hands equally. The good news is that in 42 years grade-school kids
will forego learning to right and be given a keyboard in kindergarten.
Then we'll all be even handed.

Thought of the Day
"Would you prefer it if she had no hands at all?"
"Would she have hooks?"
"Do hooks make it more attractive, Jerry?"
"Kinda cool looking."
- Elaine and Jerry, in "The Bizarro Jerry"

// posted by Brian @ 5/10/2006 01:13:00 PM