Credit the Red Sox

Luckily it hasn't affected me much since I have no savings, no 401k, no investments really, and am glad that it's happening now and not later at least for me. On another note - I've been counting how much junk mail I get lately -like in the actual mail, and it really is incredible. But I actually decided to count how much I've been getting and in the last 5 months or so, I have over 35 letters from credit card companies trying to get me to get a new card. This probably isn't surprising since every body seems has experienced this at one point or another (or maybe I am just really attractive from a credit standpoint). After living in Cameroon and Guatemala and seeing the difficulty they have in getting credit, this is even more outstanding. Even trying to get a $100 loan in Cameroon was so difficult for so many of my friends and over here people are throwing credit at me trying to get me to go in to debt. Then today, at Best Buy with my brother, I discovered that Best Buy will give you an interest free 18 month loan when you spend over a few hundred dollars. And no wonder why people in this country live beyond their means.

Speaking of living beyond our means, I decided to go to the Red Sox play off game versus Tampa on Thursday night even though I didn't have a ticket or the money (seemingly) for a play off ticket at the most expensive stadium in baseball. I didn't have tickets and was driving (which is possibly the most stupid thing you can do near Fenway) and some how got a legitimately free parking spot right near it. I then proceeded, along with a friend, to get scalped tickets at $75 a piece (the face value was some thing like $120). Ridiculous really since I had tried to get tickets in the mlb.com lottery before and was unsuccessful. As any body knows who watched or read about this game - it was incredible. The Sox game back from 7 runs down after every body thought they were done in the 7th. I have never been in such an electric sports atmosphere - I didn't sleep that night. Now I'm listening in the 7th as they are down 2-1, oh wait, excuse me (f$#k) 3-1 (thank you Willy Aybar) in game 7 and even if they go on to lose will be happy to have witnessed what I did.