Football / You're Old When / Longevity is Awesome

Ok, I know I'm getting old. I just read a news story about the Carolina Panthers - they came to Charlotte about when I was leaving and so I've never actually been to one of their games. The news story was about one of their players, who also happens to be one of my favorite football players - he is still playing, and has been with the Panthers every year of their existence [16 years now]. Can you name that player?

Speaking of playing sports when old, one of my favorite baseball players was Julio Franco. Never spectacular [okay, I lie. That home run into the pool was amazing]; but man was he in shape and always hustling! He's got nearly all of the age-related records - oldest player to hit a home run (which he then topped a few times), etc, but nearly as impressive is that he's one of only 3 players to top 4200 hits in their career (major, minor, international play) - the others are Pete Rose and Ty Cobb [I suspect Ichiro may get there, maybe?]. Other amusing trivia: he went 20 years between starts at 3rd base. He was the 6th batter Roger Clemens faced in his career, and when they faced off in 2007 they were the oldest batter/pitcher pair [combined ages] since 1933. [So, when did he first face Clemens? That would likely be 1984, when Clemens debuted in the major leagues for the Red Sox. Franco first played in the majors in 1982.] While it's likely just a myth, there's reports that his registered birth year of 1958 may be incorrect - it could be as early as 1954!

Newsflash

This just in: I married an artist. I hadn't realized it but it came to me yesterday, when this appeared:

A pretty amazing dress, and I like the color.
It's a familiar color, too, perhaps like I had seen it somewhere before?

A detail shot of the top

Here's a shot of the bottom detailing: The buttons and colors are very awesome. Lorian says that my photography really got the colors well, but I think she's being polite - the two tones around the button detail are just gorgeous and it's not my photography that put them there!

Ukulele = Awesome. Actually, more like Molly Lewis = Awesome.

Because I found I can link youtube videos really easily, here's a link to two awesome ones.

Which one you play should be up to personal taste.

A Jonathan Coulton cover:

A Lady Gaga cover:

The singer/musician is Molly Lewis, her blog is pretty awesome - Star Tours is closing? Oh no!
More videos on her youtube channel - sweetafton23 - keep an eye out for the one where she's crashing Dr. Horrible's place.

Anyways. Trying to post more frequently, maybe?  Oh, and I found these via Wil Wheaton's blog. I'm hoping there's a wootstock nearby that I don't flake out on!