User:RedSoxFan274

In the immediate future, especially the next few weeks, I should hopefully still be doing some light editing but editing levels will likely be subdued due to the aforementioned.


 * Ten Year Society – 7/9/20
 * Fifteen Year Society – 7/9/25
 * Twenty Year Society – 7/9/30


 * Profile (updated as of 1/22/24)

Editing Style, Areas of Expertise, Pet Projects, and Opinions
Over the course of my $13 1/2$ years on Wikipedia I have been most knowledgeable about articles pertaining to baseball, hockey, parts of California (on occasion, Yosemite), and suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts, but I also often simply make incremental minor edits, cleanup, and copyedits, and in general gnoming. This has composed an increasingly greater part of my editing activities as of 2018, and about 90% of my editing as of 2022 [I joined the Guild of Copy Editors in, iirc, 2020]). I also enjoy patrolling WP:Random article and adding internal links, which I love, where useful and appropriate (though please be sure to let me know if I ever violate WP:Overlink). :) In addition, I can be spotted adding redirects here and there, especially state abbreviation redirects for places that do not yet have them (e.g., "Anytown, MA" for "Anytown, Massachusetts"). Remember this: Redirects are cheap. A recent gnoming project of mine has involved searching for initials and adding spaces between them, which is protocol on Wikipedia per Manual of Style: Initials. I also enjoy dashes (– and —) and will insert them where appropriate when they are a better choice than a hyphen (-). If I leave an edit summary that says "derp,” this means that I made a mistake in a previous edit, I realize and acknowledge the mistake, and I have fixed it.

Created articles and major contributions
Articles I have created include Yosemite Lodge at the Falls, 1996 Yosemite Valley landslide, 1997 Merced River flood, and Garey High School (not my alma mater). Articles to which I have contributed frequently include Wakefield, Massachusetts (my top-edited page), Marina del Rey, California, and in the past I have stewarded season pages for the Boston Red Sox, Anaheim Ducks, Boston Celtics, Kansas City Royals, San Diego Padres, Florida Panthers, New England Revolution, and Edmonton Oilers.

Editing ware
From 2017–2023, I did nearly all of my editing by smartphone, using an iPhone 6S which was last running iOS 15.7.1. As of May 4, 2023, I am doing my smartphone editing using a new Product Red iPhone SE 3rd generation, which as of September 18, 2023, is running iOS 17.

Conclusion and contact information
If there is a field in which I edit an article and you have greater knowledge of the subject than I do, please do not hesitate to share that knowledge with me or to correct me using that knowledge in any way. My talk page is always open. Shoot me an email if you like at pmason15g@hotmail.com. My Twitter handle is @Calichusetts274. As the name implies, I am incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to live in both states, summering in Wakefield, Massachusetts (though I do not come from a snobbish wealthy family, I swear.) …But I digress! Lastly, if not most importantly, please do not let my username fool you into thinking I will refuse to talk with you if you are a Yankee fan. :)

Old profile
'''Welcome! For a much quicker and shorter explanation and summary of my main contributions and editing philosophies, please see the header message to my talk page here.'''
 * "Everything in this world is weird. And that's what makes the world go round."  - Beatlesnicole
 * "I have this real moron thing I do, it's called THINKING." – George Carlin


 * Former editing IP addresses: 72.87.238.14 and 71.107.62.182

For an explanation concerning the confuddling fact that I am a Red Sox fan and a Ducks fan simultaneously, please see here.

Just a short, young, baseball-loving, hockey-loving, Red Sox-obsessed, half-Californian, half-New Englander bookworm from Marina del Rey, California.

Talk • Edit log • Homemade Userboxes • Ducks game log editor, Red Sox game log editor, and Occasional Celtics game log editor

Contributions
** NOTE!!!!** This section, along with another section, was vandalized on January 19, 2013, and I did not realize said vandalism until February 18, 2013. Therefore, any message that appeared here between the dates of January 19, 2013 and February 18, 2013, is not my doing!!!

Travelogue
Updated as of September 24, 2016
 * 🇺🇸Wakefield, MA (Summers, 1995–2022)
 * 🇺🇸Boston, MA (Summers, 1995–2022)
 * 🇺🇸Yosemite N.P. (Christmases, 1994, 1997–2011, 2013–2015)
 * 🇺🇸Mammoth Lakes (no preceding Yosemite, national parks were closed due to government shutdown) (Christmas 1995)
 * Staycation during Christmas 1996
 * 🇺🇸Tuolumne Meadows, Mammoth Lakes, Manzanar (December 1999, December 2011*) *the only two times in my lifetime that the Tioga Road has been open during our Christmas stay in Yosemite, affording us this beautiful and gratifyingly novel detour home to the Los Angeles area.
 * 🇺🇸Sequoia N.P. (Augusts, 199?–2005, 2010, 2011, 2012)
 * 🇺🇸Fresno, California (overnight stop on the way to Yosemite, Dec. 199?–2000, 2006, 2007)
 * 🇺🇸Big Bear Lake (Augusts, 2006, 2008–2009)
 * 🇺🇸Pittsburgh, Penn. (July: 1995, 1996, 1999, 2002)
 * 🇺🇸Kennebunkport, ME (July: 1996, 1997, 1998?)
 * 🇺🇸Martha's Vineyard, MA (July 1999)
 * 🇺🇸Newport, R.I. (July: 2000, 2005)
 * 🇺🇸New York, N.Y. (July 2001) Saw the WTC just 2 months before you know what :(
 * 🇺🇸North Conway, N.H. (July 2003)
 * 🇺🇸Death Valley/Furnace Creek, Calif. (Springs, 199?–1998)
 * 🇺🇸Las Vegas, Nev. (Springs, 199?–2002, November 2012)
 * 🇺🇸San Francisco, Calif. (October 2002...when I was still young and tremendously stupid :)
 * 🇺🇸Maui Island: Kaanapali, HI (Spring 2003)
 * 🇺🇸Honolulu, HI (Spring 2004)
 * 🇺🇸Grand Canyon, Ariz. (Spring 2005)
 * 🇺🇸Flagstaff, Ariz. (Spring 2005)
 * 🇺🇸Sedona, Ariz. (Spring 2005)
 * 🇺🇸Phoenix, Ariz. (Spring 2005)
 * 🇺🇸San Luis Obispo/Paso Robles/San Simeon-Hearst Castle, Calif. (Springs, 2006–2008, 2010–2015)
 * 🇺🇸Pechanga, Temecula, Calif. (April 2008)
 * 🇺🇸Palm Springs, Calif. (March 2012, March 2013, March 2014, February 2015)
 * 🇺🇸San Diego area: San Diego/Coronado, Calif. (January 1998)
 * 🇺🇸San Diego area: San Diego (October 1998)
 * 🇺🇸San Diego area: San Diego/Chula Vista, Calif. (January 2003)
 * 🇺🇸San Diego area: Rancho Bernardo, Calif. (April? 2003)
 * 🇺🇸San Diego area: San Diego (May 2005)
 * 🇺🇸San Diego area: Carlsbad, Calif. (April 2009)
 * 🇺🇸San Diego area: Del Mar, Calif. (April 2010)
 * 🇺🇸San Diego area: Sorrento Valley/La Jolla/Coronado, Calif. (December 2012)
 * 🇺🇸Salt Lake City/Park City, Ut. (Olympics 2002, Feb. 16–23)
 * 🇨🇦Vancouver/Squamish, B.C., Can. (Olympics 2010, Feb. 20–25)
 * 🇺🇸Seattle, Wash. (2010, Feb. 26–27)
 * 🇺🇸Monterey/Pacific Grove/Big Sur, Calif. (January 2015)

Other Cities and Towns I Know Well and Frequent Regularly

 * 🇺🇸Del Rey, California
 * 🇺🇸Culver City, California
 * 🇺🇸Mar Vista, California
 * 🇺🇸Tulare, California
 * 🇺🇸Kaweah, California
 * 🇺🇸Three Rivers, California
 * 🇺🇸Malibu/Pepperdine, Calif.
 * 🇺🇸Melrose, Massachusetts
 * 🇺🇸Reading, Massachusetts
 * 🇺🇸Saugus, Massachusetts
 * 🇺🇸Stoneham, Massachusetts
 * 🇺🇸Lynnfield, Massachusetts
 * 🇺🇸Woburn, Massachusetts
 * 🇺🇸San Bernardino, California
 * 🇺🇸Fontana/Ontario, Calif.
 * 🇺🇸Long Beach, Calif.
 * 🇺🇸Patchy's hometown! = ]
 * 🇺🇸Sherman Oaks, Calif.
 * 🇨🇦Whistler, B.C.

My Happy Places

 * Burton Chace Park, Marina del Rey
 * Lower Common, Wakefield
 * Fenway Park, Boston
 * The Pond (no, not "Honda Center", "The Pond", you got that?), Anaheim
 * Admiral Hovey Park, Marblehead
 * Mirror Lake, Yosemite
 * Montana de Oro, Baywood–Los Osos
 * Emma Wood, Ventura
 * Point Vicente Light, Palos Verdes
 * The Chief, Squamish
 * ICA, Boston
 * MFA, Boston
 * Crane Beach, Ipswich
 * The Navy Yard, Charlestown
 * Tharp's Log, Sequoia
 * Palisades Park, Santa Monica
 * The beach at Playa del Rey
 * Logan, Boston

Airports

 * 🇺🇸LAX
 * 🇺🇸BOS
 * 🇺🇸OAK
 * 🇺🇸MHT
 * 🇺🇸LAS
 * 🇺🇸PIT
 * 🇺🇸SLC
 * 🇺🇸SEA
 * 🇺🇸IAD
 * 🇺🇸HOU
 * 🇺🇸DFW
 * 🇺🇸CLT
 * 🇺🇸PHX
 * 🇺🇸BWI
 * 🇺🇸PHL
 * 🇺🇸HNL
 * 🇺🇸OGG

I Am A Proud:

 * Red Sox fan
 * Yankee hater
 * Ray hater
 * Celtics fan living in L.A. who hasn't gotten killed yet! Yay! =D
 * Angels hater (dunno why really)
 * Dodgers hater (dunno why really)
 * Anaheim Ducks fan (don't ask me why I went against Boston on that one =P)
 * Sharks hater (they get on my nerves for some reason)
 * Kings and Blackhawks hater
 * writer =D
 * California native who loves to call Massachusetts my second hometown even though I've never lived there full-time because that's just how much I love Massachusetts =]
 * weather buff
 * hypochondriac
 * nerd =]
 * aviatophobe yet also avgeek at the same time… is that weird?
 * shorty

Literature
Literary influences:
 * Bill Bryson
 * Walt Whitman
 * Emily Dickinson
 * John Steinbeck
 * John Muir
 * Robert Frost
 * Yoshiko Uchida
 * Jon Krakauer
 * Guy de Maupassant
 * William Carlos Williams

Favorite books (both classic and modern):
 * Most of the Steinbeck oeuvre, especially
 * East of Eden
 * Of Mice and Men
 * The Pearl
 * The Grapes of Wrath
 * Nearly all of the Bryson oeuvre, including
 * A Walk in the Woods
 * The Mother Tongue
 * In a Sunburned Country
 * Notes from a Small Island
 * I'm a Stranger Here Myself
 * The Lost Continent
 * Made in America
 * The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
 * The Wright oeuvre, especially
 * Black Boy and
 * Native Son
 * To Kill a Mockingbird
 * Into the Wild
 * The Diary of a Young Girl
 * The Glass Castle
 * The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
 * Juvenile fiction (because you’re never too old for it):
 * The Louis Sachar oeuvre, especially
 * Holes and
 * Small Steps
 * The Matt Christopher oeuvre, especially Soccer Duel

Favorite short stories:
 * The Necklace
 * The Interlopers
 * The Adventure of the Speckled Band
 * Most of the Rylant oeuvre
 * Much of the Jackson oeuvre, especially
 * The Lottery and
 * Charles
 * as well as uncountable others

Favorite poems:
 * "This is just to say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast"
 * "I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you Nobody too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don't tell! They'd banish us, you know!"
 * The Frost oeuvre, especially After Apple-Picking
 * The Angelou oeuvre, especially Life Doesn’t Frighten Me
 * Ars Poetica
 * Richard Wright's oft-forgotten haiku

Relationships with Non-Boston, Non-Southern California Sports Teams by Sport
This does not include aforementioned relationships such as love of the Red Sox, Ducks, hatred of the Lakers and Yankees, etc. This includes only teams that do not inhabit Boston or Southern California, with the exception of the Yankees.

(As a Fan) My Sports Championships
BOLD--was in attendance for championship-clinching game
 * Anaheim Angels–2002 (for the record, I hate them now)
 * Boston Red Sox–2004
 * Anaheim Ducks–2007  6/6/07
 * Boston Red Sox–2007
 * Boston Celtics–2008
 * Boston Red Sox–2013
 * Boston Red Sox–2018

Loyal Listener of:
†Rest In Peace
 * WBZ 1030
 * KNX 1070
 * KJazz (KKJZ) 88.1 (Ah, the soothing voice of Bob Parlocha† in the middle of the night...)
 * WEEI 850 and 98.5 The Sports Hub (When I can get them)

A Message to the Red Sox
The last time you lost this many games, my father was only a year older than I am now!

** NOTE!!!!** This section, along with another section, was vandalized on January 19, 2013, and I did not realize said vandalism until February 18, 2013. Therefore, any message that appeared here between the dates of January 19, 2013 and February 18, 2013, is not my doing!!!

A Message to the Lakers
Here's a thought: how about you simply challenge yourselves with making the playoffs, and then go for the championship when you can actually score more than 10 points a game. Although, if you could keep that up, I'd really appreciate it, as I'm loving it.