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This is an archive collection of entries from  my main personal blog, My Mundane Mid-Life.

This collection of entries is from July 2004.

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Saturday, July 31, 2004

Baseball despair

One week ago, I was at a ballgame for my favorite team - The Chicago White Sox. Everything was right with the world.

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posted at 09:59 PM | Link | White Sox § |

Friday, July 30, 2004

Peeling

Ewwww... I'm peeling...
My upper arms are in such bad shape. I'm a snake - I'm shedding skin - actually my bad sunburn from last week is making my skin peel. The arms are white from the skin dying. Actually, it is a little hard to see case, well, I'm a furry guy. The patches itch and burn and hurt.... it's like it's been all week, but now you get the lovely itch and dead skin flying everywhere.

It's amazing when you try to pull the skin off, how thin a layer of human skin actually is. Anyway, the arms still hurt and are sensitive to the touch.

Oh, and look like hell.

posted at 08:32 PM | Link | Mundane § |

Thursday, July 29, 2004

No, it was the salad

The evening was miserable, as well as a part of the overnight. Yep, it must have been the salad yesterday, because my stomach... and lower parts... were in riot mode. I slept-in a little this morning and that seems to let things "work themselves out".

posted at 10:17 AM | Link | Mundane § |

Wednesday, July 28, 2004

The downward spiral...

Went out to a local produce store to pick up some tomatoes. I don't know why, but every summer I get these "needs" to have certain foods - today is cold, fresh, sliced tomatoes lightly salted and peppered.

Picked-up a salad for lunch, too. Unfortunately, half-way through the salad, the stomach did a roll-over and now I feel like crap. Could be because I'm watching the White Sox game, though...

posted at 03:13 PM | Link | Mundane § |

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

The man in the mirror

Damn eyebrows...
(Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh!!!! No!!! I didn't mean to refer to a friggin' Michael Jackson song!!! Aaaarrrrgggggghhhhh!!!!!)

You know, sometimes that first look in the mirror in the morning can be a little startling, especially if you don't feel good and then you see that you look like you feel. Sometimes you look in the mirror and you see things that yo u don't feel.

This morning I looked in the mirror and saw the part of my genes that I got from my dad - my right eyebrow has produced a white hair that is just twisting all over the place. Actually, my whole eyebrow is just a mess... I need a trim...

posted at 10:18 AM | Link | Mundane § |

Monday, July 26, 2004

Sleep x 4

OK, now I'm starting to wonder if there's something going on with me... I've fallen asleep 4 times today. OK, once was planned, but the others I was just watching something on TiVo and the next thing I know the show is over. This seems to be a regular occurrence. I need to start fighting this somehow...

posted at 04:03 PM | Link | Mundane § |

Sunday, July 25, 2004

White Sox 2 - Tigers 9

Chicago White Sox Detroit Tigers

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posted at 09:32 PM | Link | White Sox § |

Saturday, July 24, 2004

White Sox 7 - Tigers 6

Chicago White Sox Detroit Tigers

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posted at 10:23 PM | Link | White Sox § |
Exhaustion

Carol and I are exhausted. We're zombies. We're barely communicating as we shuffle around the house. Indy, on the other hand, is happy that we're home. We slept hard and deep with weird-ass dreams... and I'll bet we'll fall asleep once or twice before we go to the baseball game tonight....

I thought that a Vacation was supposed to rejuvenate, reinvigorate? Well, I guess it did, but what the hell happened to make us feel like this?

posted at 10:49 AM | Link | Mundane § |

Sunday, July 18, 2004

AWAY

I am sitting on the deck of my sister's house in Michigan. It's not completely dark yet, so I'm taking what little time I have just to sit back and enjoy the semi-quiet.

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posted at 08:11 PM | Link | Travel § |

Saturday, July 17, 2004

Big Brother 5 - Episode 5

Big Brother 5 THEME

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posted at 09:05 PM | Link | Reality TV § |

Friday, July 16, 2004

Nosey Neighbor

I've been intrigued the last few days, watching construction people across the street at a neighbor's house. Yesterday was removing and installing new roofing. Today, it's new gutters. Of course, the guy is out there yelling at the workers, as they take a tour around the house looking at the gutters. I've got no idea what's going on,but I'm trying to not be seen. There's always something going on over there, usually something happening inside so you really don't have a clue what's happening - you just see some large deliveries and guys going in in the morning and guys leaving in the evening.

Of course, I've got the issue where the guy refuses to park his car in his garage on in his driveway and has to park across the street in front of my house - just because there's one fugly looking couch sitting in the garage taking up space.

posted at 10:44 AM | Link | Mundane | 2 comments § |

Thursday, July 15, 2004

Big Brother 5 - Episode 4

Big Brother 5 THEME

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posted at 08:05 PM | Link | Reality TV § |
Mmmffrrggy esccshhhhuuuuzzzzyyyy

I woke up and went downstairs and started watching the Today show. The audio sucked. Like it was over modulated. No clarity. Fuzzy. So, I changed the station. All my local stations sounded like that. Went to the movie channels - same thing. OK, let me try my TiVo. Ditto. After a few more tests, I realize 1) it's not my ears (whew!) 2) it's not the TV, so 3) it's my 15 year old Sony receiver/amp. We had the thing fixed twice, both times because the right channel went out. It's time to throw in the towel.

I drove up to the Sony Outlet Store up at the mall in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, where I not only got a referb unit with warranty, but I got 6 new speakers for just $20. It's my first foray into Surround Sound with a sub-woofer.

My whole TV viewing experience has now been changed and everything I'm watching sounds foreign to me. I guess I got to get used to the wonderful sound...

posted at 03:12 PM | Link | Mundane § |

Wednesday, July 14, 2004

zzzzzzzz *snort*

So, I was sitting on the couch watching something on TiVo when all of a sudden... it was an hour later.

I don't remember falling asleep, I sure the heck don't remember what I was watching.

I just don't know what happened.

posted at 01:20 PM | Link | Mundane § |

Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Big Brother 5 - Episode 3

Big Brother 5 THEME

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posted at 08:05 PM | Link | Reality TV § |

Monday, July 12, 2004

Disco Demolition

Exactly 25 years ago right now, The Chicago White Sox had to forfeit a game at old Comiskey Park

Local WLUP "shock jock" Steve Dahl along with partner Garry Meier had a promotion at old Comiskey Park: Show up for a Double Header with the Detroit Tigers and bring a Disco record and get in for $1. The record would be put into a pile and blown up in between games to signify the end of disco.

All hell broke lose after the event - fans rushed the field, tore up turf, even set fires in the upper deck.

Detroit manager Sparky Anderson protested field conditions and game was called-off and later forfeited by

WTTW is broadcasting a one-hour special commemorating the event right now. I guess you can get a DVD of the show by going here.

posted at 08:21 PM | Link | Baseball § |

Sunday, July 11, 2004

White Sox 4 - Mariners 3

Chicago White Sox Seattle Mariners

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posted at 09:38 PM | Link | White Sox § |

Saturday, July 10, 2004

White Sox 3 - Mariners 2

Chicago White Sox Seattle Mariners

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posted at 10:27 PM | Link | White Sox | 1 comment § |

Friday, July 09, 2004

OK, I guess that really WAS short

OK, so it was under an hour and a half of work this morning and that project is over. All in all, a very easy project that I wouldn't mind doing again - I just wish I had more hours. (Total hours on the project - 6 3/4.)

Got home and Unemployment was calling. They had questions regarding my employment over the past year because there was a challenge filed saying I didn't work 30 days for my company... well, yeah, that was last month, but what about this past year? That should get corrected.

Time to relax and watch a little Bond on the telly.

posted at 11:16 AM | Link | Mundane § |

Thursday, July 08, 2004

Big Brother 5 - Episode 2

Big Brother 5 THEME

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posted at 08:05 PM | Link | Reality TV § |
OK, it's not so short of a job...

So, I'm back at my "short" project today. It's now the second day. The replacement printer actually showed up this morning. I set it up and this time it worked just fine. I had to repack the old printer to get Airborne to pick it up and return it.

Because of the nature of the business, I couldn't actually cutover the new printer until after the close of markets. I decided to go home for a couple of hours and come back and finish up. It took less than an hour and a half to hook-up the new printer, define the queses and push out the changes to the users.

I have to come back tomorrow to train people and how to use the printer. Let's face it - printing is not rocket science. That should take about an hour.

posted at 05:38 PM | Link | Work § |

Wednesday, July 07, 2004

A very short job

I started a very short job today. So short that it's only today and tomorrow. I'm in Crystal Lake at a branch office of a company representing a printer company that is swapping out all of the legacy printers. It's laid out so that you install the printer one day and train the users the next day. Well, I'm already behind - the new printer is giving an error (about closing its back door - which is closed, so there's a physical problem) so they're going to have to send out a service guy. I found out later that for this kind of error, they're going to just overnight ship a new printer to the branch, and I'll have to send the bad one back.

Maybe tomorrow will be better.

You have to ask - is this all worth it for such a short project?

posted at 11:16 AM | Link | Work § |

Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Big Brother 5 - Episode 1

Big Brother 5 THEME

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posted at 08:35 PM | Link | Reality TV § |

Monday, July 05, 2004

Sleep driving

Mom relaxing, reading a book Me, with some noodles, actually in the pool, getting my picture taken by Carol (Do you have ANY idea how rare of a situation this is?)
The day was starting out a bit lazy. Decided to hang in the pool and try to work-out the cramp in my left calf and just work my left leg in general. Let's just say I was in long enough to get real pruney. The leg felt great as long as I didn't stand-up on it. I could move it around and kick and it was fine. If I stood - forget it, I was back to pain.

Diane & Melinda put together another great lunch and I sat down in the TV room afterward and just fell asleep.

He left pretty early because I had no feeling for how bad the traffic would be. I knew that if the traffic was bad, we'd have to stop quite a few time so that I could walk around for a while before getting back in the car. Well, it only took us about 1:40 to get Mom home and it took us about another 40 minutes. There was NO traffic to speak of. The only problem was me - I kept fighting this need to fall asleep.

The fact is - I actually did fall asleep for a second or two and it scared the hell out me. It was on the Kennedy in the express lanes. I zoned out as the road curved, causing me to make an unintended lane change. Carol slapped my arm and I was startled enough to complete the lane change as if I intended it. Thank God there wasn't a car in the lane. I was fine the rest of the way home. Go figure.

Love being up at Diane's house.

posted at 06:14 PM | Link | Mundane § |

Sunday, July 04, 2004

Lazy pain

So, at 2:30 this morning, my left leg which has become numb, decides to throw me a cramp in my left calf. The ol' Charlie Horse at 2:30 in the morning. Carol get up and tries to get the cramp to stop while I'm trying not to scream. It felt like I didn't sleep all night long.

Well, here it s the fourth and we've got nothing really going on. The girls go out shopping while I stay home trying to sleep/recuperate. I feel like crap. I sleep on the couch while watching Ground Force America. Diane & Melinda spin-up another great meal and the day just passes on.

There's no "local amateur" fireworks in the neighborhood. The night is quiet...

posted at 10:12 PM | Link | Mundane § |

Saturday, July 03, 2004

Let's celebrate

Well, as I was getting dressed, I realize that my entire left leg from above my butt to my toes is slightly numb. No tingly sensation, no pain, just everything feels simultaneously cold and hot and muted. Crap, I'm screwed-up.

There was NO traffic all the way to Diane's house. It only took us about 1:45 to get there.

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posted at 11:10 PM | Link | Mundane § |
Up and *twitch* out

I'm up a lot earlier than I wanted to be.

I sat down at the computer to check my email and RSS feeds and my legs are twitching.

This doesn't bode well for our little trip today.

posted at 05:10 AM | Link | Mundane § |

Friday, July 02, 2004

The need to get away

My family is going up to my sister's house in Michigan for the holiday weekend. I always look forward to that - just to be able to do nothing (even though I've been doing a lot of that being unemployed). We were supposed to go up there tonight, but I've opted out of doing that for two reasons that are related. First (and primary) is that my leg twitching gets worse as the day progresses. Couple that with Friday night traffic that has the Holiday getaway factor added to it means we would be in traffic a God-awful time, and it would cause just way the hell too much discomfort. So we're going up tomorrow morning and hoping that traffic is lighter.

Now, the other issue is that my Mom refuses to do nothing when we're up there, so we're always on the move, whether it's shopping or just going some place to visit.

Hopefully, we'll have a nice balance of activity and down-time.

posted at 06:56 PM | Link | Mundane § |

Thursday, July 01, 2004

The Terminal

The Terminal
Carol and I went to the AMC South Barrington 30 to see The Terminal.

Well, I know that there's a lot of mixed reviews out there, but we really enjoyed this film. Though you may think of "Krakhozia on the Hudson", Spielberg and John Williams' music just gives it another notch of charm. And, yes, Carol & I got hit with a bit of sentimentality toward the end, but I still liked the movie. The set is unbelievable - who would have thought that the entire set was in a hangar in Palmdale and not a real airport terminal somewhere?

posted at 11:17 PM | Link | Movies § |
"I am Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq."

A video grab shows Iraq's deposed dictator Saddam Hussein appearing before an Iraqi tribunal in Iraq on July 1, 2004. Downcast but defiant, Saddam refused to recognize its authority and said the 'real criminal' was U.S. President George W. Bush. (Pool/Reuters)
Not that I'm surprised, but he doesn't get it...

posted at 10:46 AM | Link | Current Events § |
*nose wiggle*
posted at 06:31 AM | Link | Memes | 1 comment § |

 

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