And the Heat Goes On...

I took off yesterday because the installers put in my new heating-A/C system in my house. I was shocked they could get me done so quickly, especially when I'd only agreed to this system Monday morning.

I did get to sleep in, but without any heat in the house, it was a chilly morning. They got there at 8:30 AM. I put the cats in my bedroom and shut the door and the installers got to work. With them going in and out of the house, we just left the patio door and the garage open. The temperature of my house dropped into the 50's. I had nothing to do but sit around and watch movies.

After much cursing on their part (the builders of my house did some weird things to get the old system in), the installers had everything done around 3:30 PM. One asked if I wanted a humidifier added. I thought of the winters when I shock the crap out of myself and cats and said sure. So that added a few hundred more on the tab and they finished up around 5 PM, just in time for me to get ready for softball.

The first thing I did was kick the heat on, only to the upper 60's, but it feels great. While I'm $5,000 poorer, at least this is (hopefully) something I wont have to worry about for years and years, depending on how long I'm in this house.

Sadly, the guys were not hot, but were friendly. They can't all be Brad the A/C Bear.

Gays & Straights on Softball

After my post this morning, I wondered if some of my views of the number of straight players on a gay softball team were just my own. A cruise around the internet said they weren't and that a growing controversy has been brewing for some time. I'd be curious how you all see the issue.

The primary issue is the limitation of the number of heterosexual players on a given team in a gay league. The North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance, the national LGBT softball league, currently has a rule that no team can have more than two heterosexual players on its roster. Critics have said that such leagues should not have any exclusions as it makes us gays appear to be hypocritical. We don't want to be discriminated against and yet we appear to discriminate against straight people for not letting them play or only play in a limited fashion. The opposing side says that gays need a place where we can freely participate without the pressures of being harassed by straight players. It's an interesting situation. Ideally, both sides are correct, but how to find the balance needed is the hard part.

( On and On... cut for the uninterested )

So what do you think?