I had such grand hopes…

Wow, its been a while…time to dust off this ol’ blog, and get back down to work!

So, what to write…why write? Life has been comfortably slow recently.  Nothing new to report…just trying to figure things out…

I think I will work on publishing my Music of 2008 post this week…so many good albums, so many good songs! Who will get my Album of the Year vote?

Well, two weeks ago, I bought some tickets to see the Cubs vs. Phillies on July 30th.  I order them through StubHub, got fairly good tickets, nothing great…

Well they arrive and I take them out of their nice FedEx package, and then transport them to my computer desk…

Well later last week, I cleaned off my desk, and by some stupid chance, I threw my tickets into the trash…

I had the thought that I had done that yesterday afternoon, and looked all around my desk, hoping it wasn’t true…sadly it was!

Good thing, the trash had not been thrown out, so I go down to the dumpster looking for my trash…and tickets…

I open the lid, and there is piles of decaying food from the restaurant under our apartment, maggots, flies, and who knows what else!

I dig around, until I find the bag that I thought they were in, I open it up, rummage through several time, and they are not there…and I am not going to dig through another layer of God knows what!  So I head inside dejected, mad, smelly…etc.

So the tickets are gone, the trash was removed this morning, and I just bought a new pair online…making this the most expensive purchase for Cubs tickets, for me, ever!

Needless to say, I feel like a stupid idiot…

Well things have been going pretty smoothly for the past few weeks.  I apologize for never posting, I have had all the good intentions, but nothing has come to fruition.  Let me just jog through some of the things that have been going on for the past few weeks.

• We went to a family reunion in McLeansboro, IL.  It was fun to get to catch up with Erin’s Mom’s side of the family for an afternoon.  We left pretty early on Saturday, and made it back later that night. Some of the highlights were listening to the Family Tree being read, putting flower’ on Grandma Wilson’s grave, eating some good BB-Q (Thanks Uncle Lee!), making the road trip with Erin next to me, and stopping for pizza at Pryor’s on the way back!

• Two weeks ago, Erin and I went to Alley Spring, just outside of Eminence, MO.  It was a nice trip, sunny, warm, and it was just nice to get out of the apartment for the day and spend time with one another.  It seems that life gets pretty busy, and we miss opportunities to take advantage of something other than the TV.

• We took a trip to Counsel Bluff last weekend.  Erin and I really like to go swimming, and this was the first time for us this year.  I was nice to drive, and listen to music while having all the windows down! Thanks God for the beautiful weather!

• Sunday we celebrated Father’s Day at the Gidcumb’s.  It was a lazy day playing chess and pinochle, and laying on the porch reading my new favorite book: Peace, Love, & Barbecue: Recipes, Secrets, Tall Tales, and Outright Lies from the Legends of Barbecue! (I would recommend anyone buying this book, especially you good foodies! I got an amazing deal on this one at Amazon, and bought one for me and my dad!) I tell you what, it was a fun afternoon, except for my Cubs getting it handed to them by San Diego!  It was a good day filled with family and food!

The summer seems to be flying by

Where do we draw the line with our personal convictions, and the convictions of others.

If we strongly believe that war is not the answer to violence or terrorism, how should we react to those who feel strongly that it is? What if that person is family?

I have heard the arguments for a benevolent war, but I can’t help but think there is a better way…

Thoughts…

And finally bought an iPod.

I have been saving for a while, and the chance came, it was a little anti-climactic…but it will be here in about a week…

It’s  80gb, Black…

I’m looking forward to it

Well, I’ll have to wait for 8 months to get another fix of LOST…

I seriously love this show…I just finished watching the finale the other night, and I have this deep sense of loss.

With Charlie dying, the game-changing FlashForward, and the imminent danger of what could happen on the island, I am at a loss for words…this show is truly a moving experience.

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