... After my game this morning, Kates and I spent the day on our deck, playing with Phoebe and enjoying the GOR-geous weather ...
And now I'm watching Sunday night baseball.
I can't think of a better way to spend a Sunday.
Here's some of the best stories I read over the last week ...
Sports ...
a Historic season looms for Chicago baseball
a Cursed-to-first Rays, White Sox buoyed by offseason deals
a Hitting .400 isn't last crusade for Atlanta's accomplished Jones
a Embattled McLaren, Randolph, Yost fight on
a In NBA playoffs, less ink means more viewers
a Packers to deliver old locker to Favre
Politics ...
a Ex-press secretary bashes Bush
a Book: Rice kept 'her hands clean'
a Hillary Clinton's 'critical decision'
a Obama Practices Looking-Off-Into-Future Pose ... From The Onion. Ha-larious.
The Internet ...
a Blog posts photos from lost cameras to find owners
a MySpace gets its mojo back by opening door to developers
Life & other stuff ...
a Principal's blunder holds good lessons ... One of the biggest stories around Chicagoland last week. The pincipal eventually was demoted.
a Stonehenge was a royal family's burial site, researchers say
a Lowly pencil still the write tool
a N.Y. Hopes to Ensure Smooth Pedaling for Bike Commuters
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6.01.2008
5.24.2007
Sunny & clear
I rode my bike to work this morning ...
Sunny and clear. 80 degrees. Riding along the shore of Lake Michigan. Nice breeze in my face. Marveling at all the old lake shore mansions. Listening to the Grey's Anatomy playlist on my iPod ...
I can't think of a better way to start my morning ...
* * *
So Jordin won American Idol last night ... Good for her.
Going in, I was hardly excited for the two-hour tearfest, but it wasn't so bad.
Good performances. I've enjoyed Ryan Seacrest's comic bits all season long. And bringing back some of the eccentric non-idols who bombed in their tryouts was a nice touch ...
My favorite performance of the night? That Take 6/Smokey Robinson medley with the top six guys was pretty sweet. Man, they sounded (and looked) good ...
The top six girls looked good too in their white dresses. I thought they sounded just ok on their Gladys Knight tribute, though ... That was until they did "Midnight Train to Georgia." With Knight singing the lead, the girls gave some sweet, sweet background vocals (So good they made my eyes water!)
The Beatles tribute featuring past Idol winners also was pretty awesome ...
It wouldn't have been an Idol finale without Sanjaya and his hair bouncing around the stage once more (and the crying girl!) ...
And Bette Midler just sounded flat old singing "Wind Beneath My Wings." Or as Kates put it simply, "She can't sing anymore" ...
But hey, congrats to Jordin!
... you never would have caught me saying this a year ago, but it's been a heckuva ride. Six months ago, I'd never seen an episode. Now, I think I might actually miss it over the summer ...
* * *
But really, how 'bout that Lost finale last night!
Probably one of the best, most gripping episodes since the first season ...
Finally, finally! we got to see the castaways fighting back and taking down The Others. The explosives blew the camp away, then Jack slugged the snot out of Ben, and Hurley saved the day by plowing through the trees with that VW. Wam bam thank you man! ...
And Locke's alive!
And the plotline surrounding Charlie and Desmond taking over the underwater hatch was just as enthralling ... Never mind that it sucked to see Charlie die.
As for that flash-forward of Jack, I caught on the moment we first saw Jack back on a plane and drinking up. No. 1, he had a beard. We've seen a lot of Jack in flashbacks and he never had a beard. I figured immediately that it was an after-the-island, more-deranged Jack. No. 2, when Sara came to see Jack in the hospital (because she was "still" listed as his emergency contact), she was very pregnant. If my memory's right, their break-up happened not too long before the plane crash; she wasn't even an ounce pregnant. And No. 3, Jack was always using a cell phone that didn't exist at the time the plane crashed ... Ah, but what about that hospital confrontation when he mentioned his father, you ask? I shrugged it off to Jack flipping out. After all, he followed that line with "you don't know what I've been through!"
Now if only we knew whose death he kept referring to!?!?!
... As for that whole Naomi/phone/rescue freighter thing? Here's my theory: That freighter arrives and it's not really a rescue ship. It's another tribe of bad people and we're going to get a whole new chapter of trials and tribulation on the island in Season Four...
We've still got three more seasons to go, baby!
Sunny and clear. 80 degrees. Riding along the shore of Lake Michigan. Nice breeze in my face. Marveling at all the old lake shore mansions. Listening to the Grey's Anatomy playlist on my iPod ...
I can't think of a better way to start my morning ...
* * *
So Jordin won American Idol last night ... Good for her.
Going in, I was hardly excited for the two-hour tearfest, but it wasn't so bad.
Good performances. I've enjoyed Ryan Seacrest's comic bits all season long. And bringing back some of the eccentric non-idols who bombed in their tryouts was a nice touch ...
My favorite performance of the night? That Take 6/Smokey Robinson medley with the top six guys was pretty sweet. Man, they sounded (and looked) good ...
The top six girls looked good too in their white dresses. I thought they sounded just ok on their Gladys Knight tribute, though ... That was until they did "Midnight Train to Georgia." With Knight singing the lead, the girls gave some sweet, sweet background vocals (So good they made my eyes water!)
The Beatles tribute featuring past Idol winners also was pretty awesome ...
It wouldn't have been an Idol finale without Sanjaya and his hair bouncing around the stage once more (and the crying girl!) ...
And Bette Midler just sounded flat old singing "Wind Beneath My Wings." Or as Kates put it simply, "She can't sing anymore" ...
But hey, congrats to Jordin!
... you never would have caught me saying this a year ago, but it's been a heckuva ride. Six months ago, I'd never seen an episode. Now, I think I might actually miss it over the summer ...
* * *
But really, how 'bout that Lost finale last night!
Probably one of the best, most gripping episodes since the first season ...
Finally, finally! we got to see the castaways fighting back and taking down The Others. The explosives blew the camp away, then Jack slugged the snot out of Ben, and Hurley saved the day by plowing through the trees with that VW. Wam bam thank you man! ...
And Locke's alive!
And the plotline surrounding Charlie and Desmond taking over the underwater hatch was just as enthralling ... Never mind that it sucked to see Charlie die.
As for that flash-forward of Jack, I caught on the moment we first saw Jack back on a plane and drinking up. No. 1, he had a beard. We've seen a lot of Jack in flashbacks and he never had a beard. I figured immediately that it was an after-the-island, more-deranged Jack. No. 2, when Sara came to see Jack in the hospital (because she was "still" listed as his emergency contact), she was very pregnant. If my memory's right, their break-up happened not too long before the plane crash; she wasn't even an ounce pregnant. And No. 3, Jack was always using a cell phone that didn't exist at the time the plane crashed ... Ah, but what about that hospital confrontation when he mentioned his father, you ask? I shrugged it off to Jack flipping out. After all, he followed that line with "you don't know what I've been through!"
Now if only we knew whose death he kept referring to!?!?!
... As for that whole Naomi/phone/rescue freighter thing? Here's my theory: That freighter arrives and it's not really a rescue ship. It's another tribe of bad people and we're going to get a whole new chapter of trials and tribulation on the island in Season Four...
We've still got three more seasons to go, baby!
5.08.2006
Biking it
... I went to work today on my bike.
... About 30 blocks in 15 minutes and riding about 80 percent of it alongside Lake Michigan, with the bright sun reflecting off it. And my 'Grey's Anatomy' music playlist going on my iPod...
... It's hard to think of a better way to start the morning ...
... And then I arrived at work and my buddy Brian reminded me that 'bike to work week' is next week. ... So I started early; I'm training, I told him.
... actually I kind of am training. My first baseball game is less than two weeks away ( ...tonight's practice was good, really good ...), I signed up to ride 50k in a diabetes bike run in less than two weeks, and at work, we're in the midst of our 'Corporate Cup Challenge' so I gotta earn points for my team ...
...What's the Corporate Cup Challenge, you ask? ... It's six weeks of competitive exercising. While we've divided into teams of four, we earn daily points individually for exercising and participating in fitness activities, eating lots of fruits and vegetables, not smoking, drinking lots of water, etc ... individual points are then added up for each team, and the standings are posted each week. Last week, the first week, my team - aptly named The Fitastic Four - logged 389 points. The closest team to us put up 294, thus beginning our obliteration of the rest of our company. Said one co-worker/opponent: 'What're you guys doing pushing your cars to work?' ... Nope. We're just making sure we earn the maximum points every day ... it also helps that one of my teammates is the workout queen at the YMCA.
Week Two standings will be posted tomorrow ...
... About 30 blocks in 15 minutes and riding about 80 percent of it alongside Lake Michigan, with the bright sun reflecting off it. And my 'Grey's Anatomy' music playlist going on my iPod...
... It's hard to think of a better way to start the morning ...
... And then I arrived at work and my buddy Brian reminded me that 'bike to work week' is next week. ... So I started early; I'm training, I told him.
... actually I kind of am training. My first baseball game is less than two weeks away ( ...tonight's practice was good, really good ...), I signed up to ride 50k in a diabetes bike run in less than two weeks, and at work, we're in the midst of our 'Corporate Cup Challenge' so I gotta earn points for my team ...
...What's the Corporate Cup Challenge, you ask? ... It's six weeks of competitive exercising. While we've divided into teams of four, we earn daily points individually for exercising and participating in fitness activities, eating lots of fruits and vegetables, not smoking, drinking lots of water, etc ... individual points are then added up for each team, and the standings are posted each week. Last week, the first week, my team - aptly named The Fitastic Four - logged 389 points. The closest team to us put up 294, thus beginning our obliteration of the rest of our company. Said one co-worker/opponent: 'What're you guys doing pushing your cars to work?' ... Nope. We're just making sure we earn the maximum points every day ... it also helps that one of my teammates is the workout queen at the YMCA.
Week Two standings will be posted tomorrow ...
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