I think I need to rename this blog Weather disappointment and its effects on the mind. Chicago weather is just unbelievable. I know other areas get two feet of snow dumped on them or have 75 degrees dewpoints, but this place gets it all. I even saw hail a couple of weeks ago. We had [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Longing for the desert…
Posted in weather, tagged Chicago, Phoenix, rant on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Responsibility…again…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged opportunity, resentment, responsibility on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I guess all anybody has to do to get an idea of this blog’s themes is look at the tag cloud. The word responsibility is on there and is about to get bolder. Responsibility has always been a theme of my life and as I’ve mentioned before, I have a hard time with it. Most [...]
Setbacks…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coping, disappointment on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve had a few this past week. It’s always challenging to get through them and stay focused. My focus has been straying and I’ve been falling back into negative habits…which makes me feel not so great about myself and reinforces the negative habits.
It can be very hard to take the high road with myself sometimes. [...]
Happy Birthday mom
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birthday, mom on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mom would have been 73 today. The last birthday she was able celebrate was 56, 17 years ago. I wonder what she would have been like at 73. It’s possible she may not have made it out of her 60s if she’d even gotten there.
I’ve been missing her more lately. Rightly or wrongly, my [...]
Another favorite things for a rainy day…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged favorite things, genealogy, instrumentals on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s dull and gloomy outside…time once again to brighten my day with another edition of favorite things…
The instrumental edition of Bob Stroud’s Rock and Roll Roots on WDRV (the Drive) I’ve always loved instrumental songs. Listening today, I noticed that a lot of the guitar gods base their instrumentals on classical music – Khachaturian’s Sabre [...]
Spring prank season – welcome to Lane Tech, spring 1980
Posted in animals, tagged food fight, greased pig, Lane Tech, spring pranks on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing my commitment to blogging more and getting this thing out of its rut, I’ve been going through my old blog for material. I just came across this entry from June 2007, commenting about an incident in Aurora. It sparked some memories from April 1980. Ah, spring…
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-06-04-foodfight_N.htm
This is like a historic reenactment to these Aurora high school kids. [...]
Give Me Back My Filet O’ Fish!!
Posted in media, tagged filet o fish, humor, McDonalds on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So what if lent is over – I miss the filet o’ fish!! Give me back that filet 0′ fish - give me that fish!
Come on McDonald’s, bring it back!! I’m not laughing at all!
Reconciling the kid and the adult…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged childhood, integration, John Lennon, Vietnam War on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For whatever reason, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time on this blog reconciling the kid with the adult (maybe that old frosted mini-wheats commercial has stuck with me…) I’ve been pondering this today, and still don’t have a definitive answer about why it’s turned out to be a theme (and it’s an old theme [...]
Can my experience help someone else?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged childhood, frustration, homework on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…I’m trying to figure that one out. I recognized myself yesterday as my tutoree devolved into a full-fledged frustration fit. His frustration – not understanding cross multiplication of numerators and denominators to solve for a missing denominator. Even after I looked at the textbook’s example and wrote out the problem-solution process using their method, he [...]
Not Quite a WLS Big 89 Rewind for 2009…
Posted in media, tagged childhood, WLS on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished tooling around to try and find any info for a 2009 edition. It’s really fun to revisit the past with the Big 89 jocks that I grew up with and hear their take on the present. I didn’t find any information about this year. I really hope they’ll be back on the [...]
