No Joy in Cubville
Although a Cardinal fan by nature, I took no joy in the Cubs’ spectacular flame-out. If I were a gambler, I would have bet good money that this was the year Cub fans have been waiting for.

What I look forward to now is hearing from all of those baseball pundits who picked [...]

A Link to the Molly Hatchet Period
The archeologist in me was fascinated by this find during a weekend birthday party at one of the lake parks.

For you younger readers, that is what was known as a ‘pull tab’ (the Latin name escapes me.) They were used on canned beverages, a marvel of ingenuity at the [...]

My sanctimonious column this month is on running, and apparently, how I think that I’m better than you.
Although, I’m not smart enough to figure out how to get rid of that giant space between the title and this first blog item. Something to do with code, I suspect, but completely beyond me. (But not Russ. [...]

I stopped buying REM albums after Automatic for the People. Although I’ve retained respect for their catalogue up to that point, I haven’t listened to it much over the last five years. Recently, 97.7 added Driver 8 to their weekend playlist and Dave Hustava played a track off Murmur on his show last night, rekindling [...]

but I’m pretty busy with other things. I’ve got a new freelance client that I’m off to a good start with, but there’s more to be done this week. I also have a few things in the works with the SJ-R. So who has time for blogging? Except to say:
We’ve started to Wii
I hooked up [...]