When the power came back on, after the show had ended, I was in no mood to start the computer and place a Homeruns order as Amy and I had been looking forward to watching the show and we had planned and executed almost everything beautifully so that we could watch the finale in its entirety; sorry about that Homeruns -- cheer up, it's not the end of the world for either one of us.  I'll likely place the order tomorrow.  Oh, Survivor, you hath pierced pierced my soul. 

Amy and I would probably have never even watched the first Survivor episode had Marilyn, Amy's mom and my MIL (mother in law) not been in town and informed us that she had to watch it because a high school classmate of hers, B.B., was on the show.  Slowly but surely we got sucked in to this show that has been edited and crafted into a fine soap opera with mystery, deceit, greed, naiveté, beauty, love, sadness, good, evil, some twists and turns, and money.  I sometimes felt like shouting to some of the characters, "quick get out of the jungle and go hear what Richard is saying over on that corner of the beach...no, no, don't sell Sue that...can't you see the pattern?...."  Incidentally, Amy went into labor with Katherine at about 11:00pm on May 31, only an hour or two after the US television premier of Survivor.

I learned that Amazon.com will be selling cars in an alliance with Greenlight.com.  Coincidentally, someone in one of the Edmunds.com Townhall forums had asked about buying a Honda Odyssey through Greenlight and I responded, on Saturday (August 19), "I am familiar with their executive team and they are absolutely first rate; My estimation is that their service would be fine."  I should have added that I'm not sure whether they are more like Pagong or Tagi.
 

Luis Castillo RBI Watch (Through August 23, 2000)

Number of Hits......Batting Average......Number of RBI......Runs Scored
......144.......................356............................9........................79

Luis went 1-4 again as the Marlins  were shutout for the second time in three games by the San Francisco Giants 5-0.  He leadoff the first inning by grounding out to the second baseman.  In the third inning, with two outs and the bases empty, he grounded out to the third baseman.  Luis leadoff the sixth inning by grounding out to the second baseman.  In his final at-bat, he singled to left field with no on base and one out  (These data are obtained from ESPN.com.)