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This is the podcast supplement to my personal blog - sort of a personal diary chronicling things that happen in my personal life. Yes, I'm boring, yes it's all mundane. Hey! Why do you think I called the blog My Mundane Mid-Life? Feel free to leave comments on the show (just click on the "Comments" under the specific entry), and if you are a regular visitor (or just a one-time or first-time visitor), please take a moment to sign one of my GuestMaps here, and don't forget to check out the main blog - My Mundane Mid-Life!

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Wait... where are the shows?

A few of you have been asking... or at least thinking... "what's going on with the show? How come we haven't seen any updates recently at all... actually... for a few months (possibly)"

Well, it's because I had a catastrophic failure of a hard drive that contained a lot of the original recordings and material for this show... and it wasn't backed-up. I lost a lot of things.

I am trying to put together pieces of the shows that I have already recorded and trying to make-do with some other backup recordings that I have.

It's all going to "fill-in". You will see the shows slowly come on-line here.

In the meantime, I just ask for your patience, and I WILL get the shows back out again.

Thank you.

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Monday, October 15, 2007

Show #41

What - more baseball? Yes... back at the park for Jim Thome's 500th homerun... and the end of the baseball season.

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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Show #40

We become criminalists during a trip to Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago to see (and participate in) a special traveling exhibit - CSI: The Experience.

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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Show #39

We go back to the ballpark for a special night. It was... wait for it... ELVIS NIGHT

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Friday, August 31, 2007

Show #38

We scramble for cover at my office when severe weather blows through and we listen to "Cicada Song" as periodical cicadas swarm the Chicagoland area.

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Show #37

I take a short road trip "over the border" to Milwaukee to go to the Wisconsin State Fair. I walk around, listen to music, look at some vendors hawking their wares, pick up some World Famous Cream Puffs to go, and watch some cattle judging.

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Show #36

Window washers go by my window at work, I use the self-service checkout line at a Jewel Food Store, and a surreal visit to a real, honest-to-goodness Kwik-E-Mart!!!

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Sunday, July 15, 2007

Show #35

It's the 4th of July! I go to one of the best festivals in the Midwest - Ribfest - and we listen to the sounds of celebration from a distance.

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Saturday, June 30, 2007

Show #34

I win an invite to go to Arlington Park Racetrack for a private party in a suite with Eric & Kathy from WTMX 101.9... and we go to a minor league baseball game with the Kane County Cougars

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Sunday, June 17, 2007

Show #33

We finish-up our vacation in Las Vegas! Part 2 of a multiple-episode podcast.

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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Show #32

It's time to go back and vacation in Las Vegas! Part 1 of a multiple-episode podcast.

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Saturday, May 12, 2007

Show #31

It might be baseball season, but there's still hockey going on in Chicago, and I have to get an emissions test for my car.

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Monday, April 30, 2007

Show #30

I go to some Chicago White Sox games at U.S. Cellular Field with a handheld radio scanner (a Uniden BR330T Handheld Scanner)... and we get a "behind the scenes" glimpse of the operations of the stadium during the game

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Monday, April 16, 2007

Show #29

It's my favorite time of year again... it's spring... and baseball season starts!!! We go to Opening Day at U.S. Cellular Field where the Chicago White Sox host the Cleveland Indians

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Saturday, March 31, 2007

Show #28

A very long podcast of Annual Rituals in Chicago - Dying the river green, and the St. Patrick's Day Parade

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Monday, March 12, 2007

Show #27

We listen to an amateur blues singer at a legendary blues club in Chicago, walk through Gameworks in Schaumburg, Illinois during the annual Chicago Wolves Season Ticket Holder Party, and finally we endure the process of getting my Drivers License renewed.

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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Show #26

We start out at a typical Parish Lenten Fish Fry, dish a few catty remarks about the Oscars Red Carpet, and take my car to the car wash

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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Show #25

Oh... something so exciting turned something terribly wrong...

The city of Chicago gets excited when the Chicago Bears make it to the Superbowl! Too bad they embarrassed themselves and lost the game handily. At least there were the commercials...

So, we walk the show floor of the 2007 Chicago International Auto Show, the biggest auto show in North America!

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Monday, January 29, 2007

Show #24

The search for the source of my health problems finally ends up with a diagnosis

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Monday, January 15, 2007

Show #23

We start off at a hockey game, listen to some bad squeaky belts on the engine of my car, Alec Baldwin calls in, we spend an evening at the theatre to see Wicked... and celebrate my BIG Birthday... thanks to audio from my sister.

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Sunday, December 31, 2006

Show #22

We go to Northwestern for a Myelogram, listen to a Chicago Wolves' goal, and celebrate New Year's with friends... well, actually New Year's Eve...

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Saturday, December 16, 2006

Show #21

It's a soundseeing extravaganza, as we have long listening segments of traveling to Downtown Chicago via commuter rail and subway, we walk along State Street looking at the decorated windows or Marshall Field's (damn it, OK, it actually Macy's, but I refuse to accept it), walk over to the largest Christmas/Holiday market in the nation - the Christkindlmarket at Daley Plaza... and we end up listening to a haunting rendition of Little Drummer Boy on a subway platform.

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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Show #20

Spend time at the largest shopping mall in the Chicago area on the day after Thanksgiving, put up some Christmas lights, strange turns in our health sagas, and play with Jackson's Caterpillar Front Loader

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Show #19

We decide to go shopping for a new artificial Christmas tree and drag it home, time to vote in the election, a Fire Alarm at work, my doctor calls to give me some news and... I experience a hard drive crash and potentially lose 37,000 digital photos, documents, spreadsheets, and tax info!

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Show #18

We don't even leave my house, as we listen to a passing thunderstorm and kids running up the side walk and ringing our doorbell for Trick-or-Treat-ing!

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

Show #17

The "Away Team" heads up to LaValle, Wisconsin for a weekend away from the spouses... spending time going out to eat, going to a model train store, and out on the lake.

Then we spend some time just listening to the birds in the morning.

We start the show at a hockey game, we end the show at a baseball game.

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Friday, September 22, 2006

Show #16

Ah... who cares how long this show is...

It's time for an oh-too-short vacation in Las Vegas! It's Paris! It's Venice! It's Lake Como! It's Love! It's... Van Helsing's Curse???

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Saturday, September 16, 2006

Show #15

I Did it! The shortest show yet!.. It's still over 20 minutes...

We go back to the ballpark for some sounds of the game and we celebrate my nephew Jackson's First Birthday!

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Thursday, August 31, 2006

Show #14

I say that it's a shorter show... but, alas, it is not...

It's another health journey, as I go in overnight for a Sleep Study, and we have a Zen Moment sitting outside with a sprinkler watering my lawn.

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Monday, August 21, 2006

Show #13

Screw it... let's force the issue and trim this down to make it short...

OK... so.. it's as long as all the others...

We vacation at my sister's house in Michigan, have a little Michigan Zen time, play with one of Jackson's toys on the fridge... and go off on DVD players in SUV's and minivans

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Sunday, July 30, 2006

Show #12

Oh, who am I kidding... the longest show I have produced so far... my apologies.. the next one WILL be shorter...

This show I get hauled off to the hospital, talk about my binaural recording setup, go to U.S. Cellular field... but not for a baseball game, and we have a Zen Moment... right in the middle of a bunch of slot machines.

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Show #11

Shorter... not short enough

Time for a road trip, this time to middle-Wisconsin - small-town America - to continue to celebrate John's retirement

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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Show #10

I finally got a shorter show... still not as short as I would like, though

It's time to getaway to Michigan for a vacation over the U.S. Independence Day Holiday... let's go to the beach, wish a friend a Happy Retirement, watch some fireworks... and play craps at a riverboat casino.

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Sunday, June 18, 2006

Show #9

I keep saying I'm trying to get these shows shorter... here's one of the longest ones yet...

Grab a beer and a polish, we're going to the ballpark to rip American Idol and discuss the concept of a Season Ticketholder Extended family, and we go to a Ukrainian/Greek wedding.

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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Show #8

I'm trying to get these shows shorter... no... really I am...

In this show, we talk about seeing "TV's Craig Ferguson" at a local commedy club, tease a future segment about my "prior life" - as a puppeteer for a kid's TV show in Chicago, and then you get 5 good minutes of nothing but sounds of the woods at my sister's house - a moment of Michigan Zen.

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Changed RSS Feed

If anyone is subscribing to the podcast by using the RSS links in the right-hand column, please pick-up the NEW feeds from FeedBurner that are now displayed in the right-hand column.

If you subscribed via iTunes, if I did this correctly, your feed will automatically switch over.

If anyone has problems, drop me a comment.

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Friday, May 12, 2006

Show #7

This show - our longest one yet - is all medical. Let's go get an NCV, an EMG and four MRI's!

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Sunday, April 30, 2006

Show #6
On this show, we go to the last game of the season of the Chicago Wolves and we go to the PBR as it travels through town on the Built Ford Tough Tour.

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Monday, April 17, 2006

Show #5

On this show, the baseball sesaon starts with the Chicago White Sox and we go to U.S. Cellular Field.

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Friday, March 31, 2006

Show #4

In this show, we head out onto the ice and go curling and I get a haircut.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Show #3
In this show, we're back in Las Vegas, closing down the Boardwalk Hotel and Casino, play some penny video slots, have a Sunday Gospel Brunch at the House of Blues, and go up the Eiffel Tower at Paris - Las Vegas. Then we're back in town to go to a Chicago Wolves game.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Show #2

In this show, my nephew Jackson gets Baptized, I start a new hobby sport - Curling, we visit old friends, we go to the dentist and the doctor, I introduce you to our two pet rabbits, and I take you to the implosion of the Castaways Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

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Sunday, February 19, 2006

Show #1
Get out of bed
Middle of June
Craving some breakfast
Can't find a spoon
Looks like today is just another day...

Hop on the couch
Turn on the game
Winning or loosing,
it's always the same
At least we all share the same mundane life...

Get to work on time
Work the daily grind
Just another day in this Mundane Mid-Life...

It's the same for you
We all know it's true
Not everyone can be a superstar
The rest of us are just living in our Mundane Mid-Life

INTRODUCING...

The Mundane Mid-Life Show
Show #1





Yes, it's the Inaugural Mundane Mid-Life Show! It's my attempt at a Podcast, that I hope to do on a somewhat regular basis (weekly? Who knows...). Right now, all I know is that the first one is "in the can" and work on the second one can start... but with my schedule coming-up, I'm thinking this is going to take a while, just to get ramped-up.

Anyway, check it out

In this show, we talk briefly about the Chicago Wolves and the Chicago White Sox, we travel home from Las Vegas, we visit an experiment tossed-out of the International Space Station and talk about the concept of trading a sportscaster. We finish our journey with the National Anthem sung by Lou Rawls at the 2nd Game of the 2005 World Series at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago.

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Sunday, December 18, 2005

The first "inkling" of an idea

Well, as I said in my main blog today as I celebrate its 4 Anniversary, I have decided to commit to a Podcast.

Like I said over there:

Well, I don't have high hopes, but I want to give it a try. It'll be an off-shoot of what you see here, except you'll be hearing it instead. Some things may only be in the podcast, some things may only be here in the blog. We'll sort it out as we make the journey.

Now, when will that journey begin?

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That's it for the current entries of my podcast.

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