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I’m still in the middle of reading Countdown, so you get a reprieve from the boring-ass book posts.  Instead, I’ve got a couple of cool things to share with you.
First, you may recall a while back I was plugging for my brother since he and his fiancé were finalists for a free wedding from Bloomington, […]

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Walking down Michigan Avenue today I was looking around at the garb my fellow pedestrians were wearing. It only reinforced, and I think that Lost A Sock would agree, that USC fans should roast in an eternal fire. This weekend is the Notre Dame / USC football game…in South Bend. The Trojans […]

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My eyes are brown.

I really think bacon makes anything better.

But I don’t have high blood pressure.

My cat’s name is Nina.

She came with that name and I hated it at first.

Now I don’t.

I grew up in Noblesville, Indiana.

Now I live in Chicago.

I met my wife on our first day of freshman orientation at St. Joseph’s College, […]

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Well, the baseball season officially started for me yesterday. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, baseball started a couple of weeks ago. Technicality. The season doesn’t start till I go to my first Cubs game of the season. So that is what I did yesterday, thanks to my totally rockin’ friend who […]

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The Cubs, surprisingly, did end up winning in the 14th inning, 5-4 over the Cardinals.

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Its been a rough day in many aspects. First, its my wife’s payday, which has turned out a bit depressing because we are in a period where we get paid the same week, which is surprisingly disappointing because of the bills we have go out…really, we do much better when paid every other week….this […]

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The game of life is one we all think about on a daily basis, or at least we should. Its a funny game, sometimes things roll along, like a golf ball on the fairway, after a good shot off the tee. Come to think of it, golf itself is a metaphor for life.
You […]

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Its the start to another baseball season….ok, so it was the start a couple of days ago. My Cubs got off to a good start, albeit a shaky one on Monday, walking 11 batters. But they beat Cinncinati. So that was good.
They are still in Cinncy today, and Glendon Rusch is pitching […]

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So Clint and I were talking a couple weeks ago about going paintballing. Personally I’ve never been, but my Dad and brother have…they had a great time.
In lieu of actually going, I got board the other day and went looking at paintball guns online…there is some bad ass shhit out there. Really cool…amazing […]

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