Looking for a fun and easy (and a little bit dorky) way to record the stats of your favorite baseball team? How about a flavorful way to shake up water or add some kick to your movie theater popcorn? Don't worry, your search is over - we've found some awesome answers and even threw in some more stuff we like in this week's OnMilwaukee.com Recommends.

The Eephus League Official Scorebook – This slim, black book wrapped with an orange paper band looks like an upscale journal or blank book, but opening it up I instead find the coolest – perhaps the only really cool – baseball scorebook I've ever seen. It'll fit in your pocket, which is already a nice change and it's got a range of other nice and handy features, too. There's a pull-out mini scoring reference with the most common abbreviations, a larger fold-out explanation of the basics of keeping a written record of a baseball game and two panels of win, loss, day and night stickers. Each two-page spread scorecard has another two-page spread of note space that has places to record gameday details (attendance, ballpark, etc.), "Minutiae Chronicles" (because it IS safe to assume scorekeepers are detail dorks) like who sang the national anthem, start time, end time, weather, etc., post-game wrap up (ejections, MVPs), pitching stats and final line score. There's also an area to record where you sat to watch the game. I had planned to use the book this past week when I took my son to his first game of the season but I decided, instead, to break it in next month when our two favorite teams meet at Miller Park. Until then, it looks really sweet on my desk. – Bobby Tanzilo

Ice water with lemon juice - I've been trying to drink more water lately, but it's not doing me any favors by being incredibly boring. I got by in the colder months with a regular supply of coffee and hot tea but I'm not big into the iced versions of either, and now that things are warming up I'm craving something more refreshing. My aunt had mentioned recently that she had started drinking hot water with lemon in the morning as a coffee alternative, so on a whim I decided to try it cold. Unlike other juice-and-water combos, lemon adds enough flavor with just a small amount and doesn't taste like a diluted substitute for the original. Plus, it comes in a handy squirt bottle just like other flavor enhancers do, but without all the chemicals and radioactive-looking colors. I hope to try experimenting with different juice and herb combinations later on (and cucumber water, which I've heard is crazy good), but for now this five-second add-in is a quick and foolproof way to keep things interesting. - Renee Lorenz

Kernel Season's popcorn seasonings at The Times – Recently, I went to see "Easy Rider" at the Times Cinema, 5906 W. Vliet St., and I was pleased to see they had more than the usual salt-and-butter corn toppers. As a big fan of nutritional/brewer's yeast on popcorn, I am always game for something new to add fat-free flavor, so I could barely decide which of the 14 toppings to try first: white cheddar, Parmesan and garlic, jalapeno, Cajun, caramel, kettle corn? Oh the choices. I finally settled on jalapeno and I loved the extra kick on my corn. I want to catch the new "Pirates" movie at The Times this weekend. Maybe I'll try the salt & vinegar seasoning this time. - Molly Snyder

Motorola Xoom – With a smartphone, a Netbook, a laptop and desktop computer, I'm pretty well-connected to the Internet. I never thought I'd have any need for a tablet (not like need has ever prevented me from purchasing gadgets before) and my brief, three-day experiment last fall with an iPad pretty much solidified that belief. When I got the chance to play with the Motorola Xoom from Verizon, though, I was quite impressed. The Android Honeycomb operating system was built from the ground up with tablets in mind and I'm already a much bigger fan of Android than I am of the iOS found on Apple products. The real deal-breaker, however, was the ability to use Adobe Flash, something that is likely never to happen with an Apple iOS device. Say what you want about Flash, and chances are I'll agree, it's everywhere and a necessary evil on portable tech products. Its availability on Android devices make the Xoom a much more useful alternative than the iPad 2. If I were going to take the plunge on a tablet (and my month-long trial has made me want to), I'd have a Xoom in my work bag. – Andrew Wagner

"A Cord of Three Strands" by Soo Hong (Harvard Education Press) – Wellesley College Assistant Professor of Education Soo Hong spent four years in the schools of Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, where the neighborhood association runs a program to bring parents into the public schools. But they're doing more than planning bake sales and chaperoning field trips. The LSNA's Parent Mentor Program puts parents into the classrooms as teaching assistants four mornings each week for the duration of the school year. Parents also invite teachers into their homes for dinners with groups of school parents to help further break down the barriers that often prevent parent involvement in schools, especially in neighborhoods where there is a language or economic disconnect between school staff and parents. Soo Hong calls the book "A New Approach to Parent Engagement in Schools" and while it may be a little dry for those with a casual interest, anyone who seeks to consider new and deeper ways to bring parents to the table in public education and make them a key player should read "A Cord of Three Strands." – B.T.