It’s no secret. Anyone who knows me knows I love baseball. Born and bred a Chicago Cubs fan, I have slowly warmed up the the Minnesota Twins, the fact that they OWN the White Sox has helped in that regard. I’ve always said; “I have 2 favorite teams: the Cubs and whoever beats the White Sox.” Putting rivalries aside for a moment, baseball season is coming and I am stoked and ready to go! Football [Continued...]
One huge bummer about being diagnosed as a diabetic just before Thanksgiving was that I couldn’t chow down on my favorite of the season, mom’s pumpkin pie. Instead, I heard her voice in my head, saying her (in)famous quote “I’ll just have a little sliver…” I quickly found out that “little slivers” of pie suck. My mom’s recipe makes a rather dense and dark pie, as it has both dark brown sugar AND molasses in [Continued...]
For those who don’t know, a week before Thanksgiving I wound up in the hospital for a couple days. Turns out the illness I thought I was fighting off was actually type-2 diabetes and my blood sugar level was well above 600. I was actually kind of relieved at that diagnosis, I have had plenty of exposure to diabetes so it was something I was already pretty familiar with. Strange as that sounds, anyway. Now I [Continued...]
This morning I woke up and saw the news… Ron Santo Dead at 70. If you grew up in and around Chicago as a Cubs fan, you know Ron Santo as a legendary player, an excitable broadcaster and the most famous former player to never get elected to the Hall of Fame. Ron played for the Cubs from 1960-1974 as arguably one of the best 3rd basemen the Cubs ever had. (Many will rightly argue [Continued...]
Last month, I loaded up the family in the car and we went down to Harriet Island, on the Mississippi River, here in Saint Paul to watch the Red Bull Flugtag competition. It was a bigger success than they ever imagined it could be. About 200 teams applied for the 37 slots available. Organizers expected at most 50,000 people would show up, we almost doubled that number. (Crowd reported to be about 90,000) Not only [Continued...]
Take a close look at the picture to the left. This is a product so cruel, so horrible that you can only sit and wonder what kind of a sick, twisted, anti-social, sadistic prick could even conceive of such a thing. Oh sure, it keeps your products safe during shipment, but after that job is done, it is supposed to fulfill a greater purpose. It is supposed to relieve stress and anxiety, one satisfying pop [Continued...]
A funny thing happened in the time between my last post here and this one. I quit smoking. 3 weeks, 1 day, 3 hours and 17 minutes ago, I had my last cigarette. Not that I’m counting. Honestly, I’ve had my moments here and there, but for the most part it has been pretty painless. I used the nicotine patch for all of 3 days before I got sick of those things and have been [Continued...]
Dear Jack, A funny thing happened after I made this post back in April. Virtually every day since then, someone, or several someones have visited my blog as a result of a Google search on either you or AtAT. I am not making that up. Sadly, during some of my lulls in posting, it is the ONLY traffic I get! I realize this will only make it worse. I can live with that. Jack, your [Continued...]
Ok, this morning? I woke up, which is usually a pretty good clue that you are off to a good start. I got out of bed and plodded to the kitchen and fired up the Bunn to brew me a 3-minute pot of liquid consciousness. Upon plodding back into the bedroom, stylish and collectible purple mug in hand, I see a story on the news. A disturbing story that requires those of us who partake [Continued...]
Chrissa over at A Little Wicked tagged me for this a couple days ago, so I’m more than happy to play along. Just be warned, when I’m done, I will be tagging 3 people to take the ball and run with it. If you get tagged, you gotta do it. No backing out. So 10 things about me involving music… let’s see now… 1 ) I play drums. Well that is I used to play [Continued...]
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