Fifth estate

I'm not feeling very bloggy today, so this'll be short.

I feel the need to mention Holly's wedding, which was Saturday, since Holly was one of the original blog readers so many years ago. It was at Belmont Estate in Reidsville, NC. Somehow I ended up talking to one of the owners. I asked him if the place used to be a plantation. He said it was a "working farm." I don't get the need for the distinction, but evidently there is one.

That guy's (business) partner evidently still lives upstairs in the house, but he was the emcee and DJ for the evening and kind of a tool about it. He did a "play-by-play" of the cake cutting, which wasn't easily viewable by a good percentage of the party. I guess when you live in an event center, you lose touch with what counts as play-by-playable events.

It was a good weekend though, and I got to revisit Chapel Hill, which is always entertaining for me.

The Cardinals played a very useful game last night.

John Smoltz pitched well in his Cardinal debut. He even struck out a record seven in a row on his way to 9 Ks through 5 innings. That means that 60% of his recorded outs were strikeouts. Pretty impressive.

Despite Smoltz outing, the Cardinals used five different relievers in the game, two of which earned holds. The hold is such a weird statistic.

Also, Pujols hit his 40^th HR on the year. He's good at baseball.

Event of the Week:

My students start blogging Wednesday, so I should put up an enormous list of their blogs before the week is out.