My Mundane Mid-LifeThis is my personal blog - sort of a personal diary chronicling things that happen in my personal life. Yes, I'm boring, yes it's all mundane. Hey! Why do you think I called the blog My Mundane Mid-Life?51 Months- May 16, 2006 Good ol' "fat naked guy" - Richard Hatch, the winner of the first Survivor, who didn't pay taxes on his $1M winnings, was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for tax evasion and, apparently to the judge, repeated perjury during the trial.http://www.reallans.com/mmml.shtml?/002924.shtml Not-so Daily- May 15, 2006 I'm looking at the current month calendar over in the right-hand column, and I'm feeling a bit disappointed. Has my life become so mundane and boring that I can't post every day Apparently. This stretch of time is the worst in the past four years of this blog. I mean, I always published something. Man, I'm going to have to force myself to write something. Even if it's nothing. I guess, sort of like this entry... only maybe better...http://www.reallans.com/mmml.shtml?/002923.shtml Michiganing- May 15, 2006 Got back in enough time to watch the Survivor: Panama - Exile Island finale & Reunion. Sorry, Terry should have had it, not Aras. We spent yesterday & today at my sister's house in Michigan, where - due to the crappy weather, we didn't do anything. Which, I must say, is not a bad thing. Sometimes it's just nice getting away some place else, any place else, and she's got a great any place to be. We had lunch yesterday at the Red Arrow Roadhouse, which you can't beat for price and quality..http://www.reallans.com/mmml.shtml?/002922.shtml Gloomy- May 13, 2006 We've had a lot of rain and high wind warnings both yesterday and today and its' supposed to be this way through Monday. It's in the 30's at night and daytime highs are only in the mid-40's. There's a Low Pressure system parked around Lake Michigan and all of the great Lakes states are getting this crappy weather. And the low isn't supposed to move-off for days. Depressing. And we'll all supposed to go up to Diane's in Michigan for the weekend. Travel should be terrible, and then we can't...http://www.reallans.com/mmml.shtml?/002920.shtml Parched- May 10, 2006 Time to share with you a side effect of diabetes that I have been plagued with. Dry mouth and extreme thirst. I've had this for a while, actually, most severely at night or when I awake. I wrote it off ats1) being a mouth-breather because my sinuses are usually always clogged, and 2) no humidifier in the house during the winter. Turns out it was diabetes. But lately, it's took a new turn. I have been taking Zyrtec for my allergies (and it's not that all effective, in my mind), and I think..http://www.reallans.com/mmml.shtml?/002919.shtml Well, he didn't kill himself... yet- May 9, 2006 Sorry, I just couldn't watch the David Blaine thing last night on ABC ("Drowned Alive"). I like his slight of hand work and other feats of prestidigitation, but these TV specials are just weird-ass events and tests of endurance that seem... not really spectacular, just means of 1) getting his name out in the press, and 2) getting his name into a world record book or something. I mean, what's the point and why should I watch I had heard earlier in the day that he wasn't doing well from his...http://www.reallans.com/mmml.shtml?/002918.shtml E.W. has C.O. as 1!- May 9, 2006 I was reading this weeks' Entertainment Weekly and flipped over to the issue's The Must List and there it was - Number 1 was Cute Overload! This is a great website. I know Carol goes there often. She says that if she's having a bad day, she goes over there to see all of the damn cute pictures there, and you always feel better. Go check it out - it's got the world's best cute animal pictures!http://www.reallans.com/mmml.shtml?/002917.shtml White Sox 3 - Royals 2- May 7, 2006 OK, I think we've figured out the parking situation for us newbie Red Coupon people. It seems like the preferable lot is Lot A which is where the Bus Parking is, which is the advantage. After the game, instead of going out the way you came in, you use the Bus EntranceExit in the "front" of the lot and you get dumped out onto one-way south Wentworth, before 35th Street - perfect for making a left onto 35th to go over the bridge and get right on the Dan Ryan. The weather was about the same as..http://www.reallans.com/mmml.shtml?/002915.shtml White Sox 9 - Royals 2- May 7, 2006 Another crappy weather night - it was 52 at gametime, windy, and it just went down from there. A bit uncomfortable. What a game, though. Javier Vazquez had No-Hitter through 5. In his last start, he no-hit the Royals through 7. Jim Thome had another homerun, his 13th. I love being at the game to watch the ball fly. You don't get a sense of the speed on TV. They get out in a hurry, hardly without an arc to its flight. The 7-8-9 spots of the order need some individual hitting instruction:...http://www.reallans.com/mmml.shtml?/002914.shtml Super M Mode- May 5, 2006 Wow, I sure haven't been writing here very much. I think what's happened is that my life has phased into Super M mode - as in Super Mundane. Nothing of note is happening. At all. I'll post something about baseball games I go to, but that's because it's out of the ordinary for me. Everything else is everyday stuff. So boring, so mundane. Why share It's not interesting - at least I don't think so because it's just everyday life. You get up, you go to work, do your job, go home, talk to the...http://www.reallans.com/mmml.shtml?/002913.shtml |