Apologies for the lack of activity on this site. There hasn’t been much to report. The past few days have consisted largely of sleep scheduling difficulties, and abortive attempts at evening plans. We’ve found out a few things about traveling around London, and good places to go (and bad places to go!) through trial and error. Surely it will be useful in the future.

Mike and I did spend a good 3 hours walking around the Leicester Square/Soho area on Saturday evening. It’s remarkable how crowded it is, and how obnoxious the club promoters are. There will be a 20 minute queue in front of it, and they’ll still have people circling trying to give you “special” deals.

There are some beautiful things there as well. Further, in Leicester Square they have Ian McKellan, Billy Crystal, and Sylvester Stallone’s hand prints, amongst others.

I have also spent a good two hours a day reading about baseball for the past few weeks. Not too much of an increase from the norm, but when I’m not up to much else it seems more noticeable. Further, an English friend of mine is very interested in learning about it. Once the season starts up, I’ll start showing him MLB.TV games, and I talked to him for about two hours explaining statistics.

I’m proud to say he already realizes why RBI is a stupid statistic for measuring the quality of an individual player.