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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 March 2007.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Wolves 5 - Moose 2

Chicago Wolves Manitoba Moose

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posted at 10:17 PM | Link | Wolves | Care to comment? | § |

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Ides of March

Soothsayer Caesar!
CAESAR Ha! who calls?
CASCA Bid every noise be still: peace yet again!
CAESAR Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
Cry 'Caesar!' Speak; Caesar is turn'd to hear.
Soothsayer Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR What man is that?
BRUTUS A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
CAESAR Set him before me; let me see his face.
CASSIUS Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.
CAESAR What say'st thou to me now? speak once again.
Soothsayer Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.
Julius Caesar Act I Scene II

posted at 06:34 AM | Link | Mundane | 2 comments | § |

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Wolves 4 - Rivermen 3

Chicago Wolves Peoria Rivermen

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posted at 10:31 PM | Link | Wolves | § |

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

SPRING IS HERE!!!! ... oh wait... no it's not...

OH MY!!!!!

It was a record high temperature for this date today... 73°F (for you people outside the US... it's about 22°C)

This was exquisite! It wasn't just a warm breeze that still had that cold bite behind it after the breeze was gone... no... I felt... warmth... it smelled different.. .oh, such a tease... it's going away, I know... but... now I just want days like this when baseball starts next month...

posted at 01:29 PM | Link | Mundane | § |

Monday, March 12, 2007

OK... this is a dumb move...

Woke up at my normal time... but it was dark outside. Pitch black. It was that damn Daylight Saving thing. It was cloudy... and dark. this is going to be hell for a few weeks... my body feels like it's just not supposed to be up right now, feeling awfully groggy... So, we get more time of sunlight in the evening. I'm starting to think "big deal" and what goos is that when you don't have sun to wake you up in the morning...

...though I have to admit, traffic didn't feel all that bad this morning...

posted at 08:28 AM | Link | Mundane | § |

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Time Travel

Yes.. I Time Traveled last night. Well, actually this morning.

I was a bad boy an stayed up way too late, playing in Second Life, talking on Skype with some friends... before i knew it, it was 2am... but wait... suddenly I time traveled! I went ... to the future!

OK, not exactly, but I can't remember the last time I was awake for this event, when it is 2am, but, suddenly ... it's actually 3am! That's when I knew that it was a mistake staying up late...

Yes, it was the magic of Daylight Saving, under the new laws... all of my Windows XP machines made the transition just fine... for the first time, none of my Windows 2000 machines did not. are there patches available? I'll need to see... even my TiVo's transitioned correctly... my Treo 700wx was fine... then there's all the clocks, both in the home and in the car, watches, the microwave, the stove, the DVD recorder, the VCR... which, I come to find out, won't even listen to the remote...I can't get it to change the time! Perhaps it's time for the VCR to be pitched... the Infoglobe needed a phone call to pick up the new time from the caller ID...

What makes today so much nicer, is that it's getting warm outside... in the 50's... and having the patio door open was just so refreshing...

posted at 10:34 AM | Link | Mundane | § |

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Wolves 4 - Admirals 6

Chicago Wolves Milwaukee Admirals

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posted at 10:44 PM | Link | Wolves | § |

Friday, March 09, 2007

Daylight Saving Hell

Thank you so much, Congress... moving Daylight Saving just makes no friggin' sense... how much is this going to cost businesses, let alone how much this is going screw up home life.. I am NOT looking forward to being in my house on Sunday... there's just too many gadgets in the house, and I've just got this feeling that the next few weeks will be hell trying to get everything to sync-up correctly..

Y2K again? Daylight time may baffle computers

posted at 11:40 AM | Link | Mundane | 1 comment | § |

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

You're fired...

No, not me...

Astronaut Lisa Nowak gets fired.

(My blog entry about this is here)

Because Nowak is a naval officer on assignment to NASA, rather than a NASA civil servant, she is not subject to administrative action by NASA
Nowak's firing marked the first time NASA has publicly dismissed an astronaut, said space historian Roger Launius of the Smithsonian Institution. She is also the first active astronaut to be charged with a felony, he said.


posted at 03:10 PM | Link | Space | § |
An invasion force of 170

Turns out this is old news, but I just heard about this...

Back on the morning of March 1st, around 170 Swiss infantry soldiers - armed with their Swiss Army Knives and rifles (but no ammunition), while on a training exercise, wandered more than a mile across the unmarked border with the tiny principality of Liechtenstein.

OK, that's bad, and they turned around when they figured out what they did.

Here's some quick stats - Liechtenstein is only 62 square miles big. The last estimate of the population - 33,987. The Swiss army is 220,000 strong. Liechtenstein? No military.

I suppose that these guys shouldn't be confused with the Swiss Guard at the Vatican...

So, which is worse - that the Swiss invaded, or that nobody in Liechtenstein had even noticed the soldiers.

posted at 09:01 AM | Link | Odd | § |

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

What is wrong with the world?

OK... what the hell is going on with the world around us?

Here are articles from CNN just posted today:

Police say father told toddler, 'Now you stab Mommy'

Police say a man repeatedly stabbed his teenage wife, then gave the knife to his toddler son and told him: "Now you stab Mommy."
Here's another stat from this article that , to me, stood out and sounds awfully illegal: Husband: 21 Wife:17 Son: 2

Mom pleads guilty to using baby as a weapon

A woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to swinging her 4-week-old son like a bat to hit her boyfriend during a fight, fracturing the infant's skull in the process.

Pilot told ex-wife she wouldn't get daughter, in-law says

The man whose small plane slammed into his former mother-in-law's house, killing him and his 8-year-old daughter, had told his ex-wife before the crash he had the girl "and you're not going to get her," the mother-in-law said Tuesday.
Eric Johnson, a student pilot who had soloed before, strapped daughter Emily into the passenger seat of a leased, single-engine Cessna on Monday morning. Less than two hours later, officials said, the plane smashed into the home of Vivian Pace, the girl's grandmother.

posted at 02:03 PM | Link | Odd | § |
$370 Million

Mega Millions. Who will win it? Someone has to in it tonight... otherwise, it's going to get a little crazy around here...

Mega Millions jackpot swells to record $370 million

Update: Lottery waiting to hear from $370 million winners

Winning numbers were 16-22-29-39-42; Mega Ball number was 20

Two winning tickets: one sold at Campark Liquors in Woodbine, New Jersey and the other at Favorite Market in Dalton, Georgia.

The largest previous multistate lottery jackpot was $365 million in 2006, when eight workers at a Nebraska meat processing plant hit the Powerball lotto. The Big Game lotto, the forerunner of Mega Millions, paid out a $363 million jackpot in 2000.

posted at 01:52 PM | Link | Mundane | § |

Monday, March 05, 2007

25 years removed from the funny

It was 25 years ago today that John Belushi was found dead at age 33, in a hotel room at the Château Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.

I loved his Saturday Night Live characters, especially the Samurai character (my favorite - "Samurai Delicatessen" and "Samurai Stockbroker" where he accidentally hits Buck Henry in the forehead), his Joe Cocker impersonation - even in a duet with him - is priceless.

And, if you grew-up in Chicago at that time, "The Blues Brothers" is the pinnacle of Chicago films.

posted at 12:48 PM | Link | Mundane | § |
Casimir Pulaski Day

Are we the only city that celebrates a Polish Revolutionary War hero?

Chicagoland still boasts the 2nd largest population of residents of Polish descent (behind only Warsaw) in the world!

posted at 11:12 AM | Link | Mundane | § |

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Making of a Legend?

We did something totally out of the ordinary/mundane today... We drove into the city and picked-up B&B and drove downtown (South Loop) to Buddy Guy's Legend’s.

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posted at 09:10 PM | Link | Mundane | § |

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Wolves 3 - Bulldogs 6

Chicago Wolves Hamilton Bulldogs

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posted at 10:07 PM | Link | Wolves | § |

Friday, March 02, 2007

Yes! No Paris Hilton!

I saw this today and I have to personally congratulate the Associated Press for the stand it took...

The editors at AP actually put an experimental weeklong embargo on any stories about Paris Hilton

AP: We ignored Paris Hilton

What happened?

None of the thousands of media outlets that depend on AP called in asking for a Paris Hilton story.

posted at 12:24 PM | Link | Current Events | § |
He can be worth how much?

Have you heard about this story about a minor league pitcher?

Matt White. 29 years old. Only pitched 9 2/3 innings in the majors, over 9 professional seasons in just 7 games. Journeyman. He's a non-roster invitee to Dodgers spring training. Can he make the team? Doubtful, I think. But, I think he'll do OK...

Flash back 3 years ago. His great aunt was going into a nursing home and needed to raise some cash. He bought a 50-acre mountain-top lot of hers for $50,000.

He starts to clear 4 acres of the land to build a house, but had problems because they kept hitting these large flat rocks. There was so much rock, that he called a local geologist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to find out what it was.

It's mica schist, a slate-like shiny metamorphic stone used for patio decks and other construction.

OK, cool... you can sell it. It sells for $100 a ton. Now, it's gonna cost money to get the rock removed.

But... let's do some quick calculations...

$100 per ton... The geologist estimated there were 24 million tons of the stone on his land.

This journeyman pitcher, that didn't make more than $300,000 in his entire career... is sitting on... potentially...

$2.4 BILLION of rock.

posted at 08:48 AM | Link | Baseball | § |

Thursday, March 01, 2007

It's that time again to mark the date...

marchFIRST
I feel that I still have to mark this day... know where I used to work years ago? During the Great Internet Boom?

Yes, marchFIRST.

Those were the days. So long ago...

I felt this year that I had to mark this day, because on February 2nd, Bob Bernard the CEO and founder of the original company - Whittman-Hart - died of a heart attack. He was 45.


posted at 10:08 AM | Link | Work | § |
*nose wiggle* *nose wiggle*

How can it be the First Day of the Month already? Again according to meme tradition..., you better say "Rabbit, Rabbit!" as your first words of the day to have good luck! (Now, if you blew it, before you go to sleep tonight, to still try to gain luck, your last words have to be "Tibbar! Tibbar!")..

And for other derivitives to this meme, check out the alternatives: "White Rabbit" or Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit!.

posted at 06:51 AM | Link | Memes | § |

 

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