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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 2006.

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Monday, July 31, 2006

Heat and Water

Friggin' oppressive heat over the Chicago Area... over the United States.. hell, Europe has it as well... WTF?

I have been REALLY lucky so far... we've had some really nice sized thunderstorms rolling through the neighborhood every other day or so... until recently.

I've avoided watering our plants.. can't avoid it any longer...

So.. since I spend no time around the outside of our house, I was shocked and appalled to find out something going on.

We had to get a new lawn mowing service this year, because the one we've used had to close down.. due to some family thing...

So our new guys are.. well, OK. Not stellar, but OK.

I left the hose out behind the house for at least the last month, maybe longer... like I said, it's been a while since I last watered. The hose is on one of those plastic hose mobile cart things. Just siting there.

So I go out there and start unwinding the hose... and I'm HORRIFIED to find out that the lawn crew... has never touched the hose mobile when they cut the grass. They NEVER MOVED IT. The grass under the hose mobile was over a foot tall. So I moved the damn hose mobile, forcing these idiots to cut the damn grass!!! The feed hose that goes to the cart was buried in the grass and I had to rip it out of the grass clump to move the cart!

posted at 08:47 PM | Link | Mundane | § |

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Teef

Dear Jackson;

I haven't written to you in a while, but today I feel compelled to do do.

I haven't seen you for a few weeks. During that time, you were pretty sick with some kind of bug, and you have no idea how much trouble you put your mommies through. But, eventually.. it looks like you've made it through.

I was watching you today. You're crawling really fast now... you can almost stand unassisted. You've got at least two teeth that I can see, and you look pretty damn cute...

Actually, that's the thing I really noticed today.

Since the last time I saw you, you've changed. All of a sudden, I'm seeing the little boy Jackson and not Infant Jackson.. yeah, I know you're not even a year old yet... but now I can see your brain ticking.. thinking.. absorbing things.. reacting...

You're not the same Jackson that I knew.

Your face is filling out.. your hair longer and finally laying down and not sticking up...

I'm seeing these fleeting emotions on your face as you figure things out...

You seem quieter, more focused...

You're not the same Jackson... you are starting to grow up.. and turning the corner toward One Year Old...

I can't wait to see you in just a few weeks!

Love,
Uncle Michael

posted at 09:05 PM | Link | Uncle Michael | § |

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Grinder Bash

The White Sox threw a party for season ticket holders today (actually, on Thursday and Friday, too). They used to do this almost every year. They suspended this or a few years, because the park had renovations being done, almost year long. Now, that the season ticket base has grown so dramatically, the team decided to throw another party.

I LOVE these things. There's something special about being in the park - when the team isn't there playing ball. I took my buddy Barry to share this unusual event.

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posted at 07:03 PM | Link | Mundane | § |

Friday, July 28, 2006

This Batty Heat

OK.. so.. I KNOW it's summer... I KNOW it's supposed to be hot...

But this is rediculous... nationwide record heat? Europe?

A week at a time? And then, another week? Another week in the 90's? Hear index over 105?

And then, on TV this morning, hear that in Sacremento, bats are falling out of trees because of heat and dehydration.

posted at 09:27 AM | Link | Mundane | § |

Thursday, July 27, 2006

The Hurdle to Bed

Our friends B&B told us about this mattress cover they got from Overstock.com. The love it. We tested it on their bed and loved it - reminded us of the mattress at the Venetian. So I went online and ordered a Serta® Ultimate 4-inch Memory Foam Mattress Topper and it showed up yesterday. It came in this little box, all 37 pounds of it. So, we found out that we have to unroll it and let it air out. No way the size of the roll is a full-size bed mattress topper.

So we unroll it and unfold it on top of our bed and... sure enough it's the right size... and within seconds, any creases and folds are gone.

Now... it's becoming clear... we have a more significant problem...

Box spring... mattress.. new 4 inches of foam...

We're short, and the top of the bed is now belt high. How are we going to get in at night?

posted at 09:14 PM | Link | Mundane | § |

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Maybe on the right path?

I finally had an appointment with a neurologist today. It has been months and months, and because I was a new patient, this was the first opening I could get.

So.. it's the same thing.. "I don't know"... because like all my problems and all my doctors, it's all the same.. "I don't know".. and whatever I have, it doesn't "fit" with test/scan results.

But, now with her, it's like.. OK, let's go down this path and start eliminating. I have another series of blood tests to take.. eliminating Vitamin deficiency, Lyme Disease.. stuff like that..

Oh, and she wants me to go in for a sleep study... my fatigue, coordination issues... it all fits sleep apnia... along with - believe it or not - high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc.

I feel comfortable with her.. great attitude... I think maybe, SOMEDAY, we'll figure this out.

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

Monday, July 24, 2006

Carol's Air

I don't know how a woman, who is CLEARLY intolerant of heat, has been driving around in an SUV that doesn't have working air conditioning during the oppressive heat wave (that may be rearing its ugly head again this week).

We brought her truck in to get serviced today (along with, oh, a RECALL that had to get fixed).

She should feel better now. At least while she's driving.

posted at 05:39 PM | Link | Mundane | § |

Sunday, July 23, 2006

White Sox 5 - Rangers 0

Chicago White Sox Texas Rangers

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posted at 04:25 PM | Link | White Sox | § |

Saturday, July 22, 2006

White Sox 3 - Rangers 1

Chicago White Sox Texas Rangers

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posted at 10:32 PM | Link | White Sox | § |

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

I'm screwed...

myesetrdamy, I accidenallmy spilled mmy Diet Pepsi all ovtetr mmy desk. MUnftotrmunatelmy, I gtot a little on mmy laptop keyboatrd, and now... well, you can see that I'm gtettingt extra key ptresses. I can't logtin because I'm gtettingt invtalid passwotrds.

Gtreat.

posted at 09:19 AM | Link | Mundane | § |

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Back from the weekend

Just got back from a weekend trip to the small-town America, central Wisconsin style.

Carol and I along with Barry & Buffy traveled almost 200 miles to a small town called laValle - population 329 - in south central Wisconsin

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posted at 05:51 PM | Link | Mundane | § |

Friday, July 14, 2006

Hardly anything to say

I feel I've hit the summer doldrums... nothing much going on, every thing the same... why write about it?

We at the beginning of a real significant het spell that will last a week. Temperatures in the mid to upper 90's... high humidity. Heat index 105 and above.

Tomorrow B&B and the two of us drive up to Wisconsin for the weekend.. more on that some other time...

posted at 10:24 AM | Link | Mundane | § |

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Smell

OH.

MY.

GOD.

This is NOT NOT NOT the best time of yesr driving to work in the morning.

Actually, it's not he drive to work. It's not the parking in the parking garage.

It's walking from the car to the building.

In the humidity. If there's heat, God help us.

We're downwind of a waste treatment plant. Human waiste treatment plant. Vile. Nausiating. Disgusting.

posted at 08:00 AM | Link | Mundane | § |

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

What to go A.L.!

Another Amercan League All-Str winner! Thanks, Ozzie! What a way to win - in the top of the 9th!


(Boxscore)

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posted at 10:38 PM | Link | Baseball | § |
MY DAY OF FIRSTS

My view from the gurney - not a smooth ride The view out the back windows from the gurney The paramedics offered to take my picture - see? I look FINE! My home in the E.R. for 5 and a half hours Sneaking a peak out into the E.R.

OK, I'm thinking of posting this entry later, sometime after I can tell my family about what happened today before they read it here first.

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posted at 09:06 PM | Link | Health | § |

Sunday, July 09, 2006

White Sox 6 - Red Sox 5 - 19 INNINGS

Chicago White Sox Boston Red Sox

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posted at 09:34 PM | Link | White Sox | § |

Saturday, July 08, 2006

White Sox 6 - Red Sox 9

Chicago White Sox Boston Red Sox

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posted at 04:32 PM | Link | White Sox | § |

Friday, July 07, 2006

Traffic?

Oh, man - I love weeks like this...

Commuting traffic is just non-existent. The holiday just fell in the right spot that people took off the whole week instead of just the weekend.

Sweet, easy, commuting...

posted at 11:31 AM | Link | Mundane | § |

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Not Fair!

Back to work - only three work days this week.

It's gorgeous outside - sunny, blue sky, no clouds, 70's.

Where was this weather this past weekend? Why is it here NOW when I have to work?

posted at 09:30 AM | Link | Mundane | § |

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Podcast Show #10 now available

The latest "Mundane Mid-Life Show" podcast - Show #10 - is now available on the Podcast page, which has links to download individual shows or subscribe to the Podcast through iTunes.

posted at 07:20 PM | Link | Podcast | § |
Back in town

Carol and I are back from our little vacation. It's always great getting away to Michigan.

Even this weekend when the weather sucked. Hot, humid, overcast, thunderstorms. WE had a gorgeous pool in the back and we couldn't use it until today when the weather finally broke!

And then - horrors! - The DirecTV satellite dish got moved by the roofers laying a new roof and - gasp! - we could only watch local stations! We had to rough it!

We had one lunch out (Redamak's) and one dinner out (Red Arrow Roadhouse)- the rest of our meals my sister Diane cooked for us and they were all good. It's just nice to get away...

The best part.. the drive home! Why? Because no one was on the road and we were home in 2˝ hours, including a stop for gas in Indiana, driving into the city to drop-off my mom, and stopping at 7-11 for newspapers!

posted at 06:33 PM | Link | Mundane | § |

 

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