7.24.2009

Free thoughts

I don’t have anything worthwhile to say tonight. But for the sake of showing some life on this blog, I’m going with some random thoughts …

Kates and Pheebs are off at the family farm for the weekend … while I had to stay home to work.

The good news: I have the house to myself.

It’s a chance to refresh myself and work on a whole list of projects I might not get to with them around. Fun stuff like refinishing a cabinet that we’ve targeted for our guest bedroom, but it’s been sitting in our garage for the last year; and cleaning out the laundry room. … And if I’m lucky, I’ll catch up on some television, too.

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I’ve been lucky to actually catch some baseball this week …

On Tuesday night, I first opted for the Cubs game, but I moved for the remote again a couple minutes later with the Phillies trouncing them. … The alternative was the Brewers-Pirates game, which was in a rain delay … So the alternative to that, was a “Brewers Classics” game from Sept. 5, 2007. A classic indeed. I know, because I was there, and I gladly watched it again.

I didn’t, however, catch the classic at U.S. Cellular yesterday -- Mark Buerhle’s perfect game … I had been working outside and came in at around 5:30. It was then that I checked my e-mail and saw the news alerts from hours earlier that Buehrle had a perfect game in progress. … All I could do then was turn on the Chicago news stations and indulge in the endless highlights and replays of DeWayne Wise’s miraculous game-saving catch.

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Today was the day that comes around this time of every year ...

The day that an amateur bicycle tour sweeps into our city and forces the closure of major downtown intersections and practically imprisons all downtown workers in their offices … All day long the bikes go round and round and round our office blocks, and merely crossing a sidewalk to get to the parking lot -- that is, if you’re able to get your car out of the parking lot -- becomes a life-or-death decision.

Aside from all of the inconveniences, it is an exciting event that brings hordes of people to our downtown for the race action, as well as the accompanying music, kids activities and food … Oh, the food. I walked over to the event for lunch and got one heckuva tasty grilled ham and swiss sandwich …

Here’s a photo I snapped of the racers from outside my office building …

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