so on july 29th, i sprained my ankle.  i spent a week and a half one two crutches.  then a week on one crutch.  then a week with a cane (pimpin').  and now i'm just wearing sneakers.

here's the radiology exam report, as filled out by dr katz (Dr Katz!?), with emphasis added by me.  my additional comments are italicized.

"HISTORY: Basketball injury. [ ( Read more... )

well, they finally did it.  they finally made a hard rock cover of genesis' masterpiece of puppetry and political rock, "land of confusion".   i've always said that the original version was pretty hard rock, even though it was genesis.  and i've been waiting for some new band to cover it.   too bad it's done by disturbed.  i really hate disturbed ( Read more... )

now, if you know me at all, you'd know that i usually wouldn't agree with most of pat buchanan's political views.  however, regarding the current fighting in israel & lebanon, i completely agree with him 100%:

"But, let me tell you where Israel has been stupid.  Israel was provoked and attacked by Hezbollah, grabbed those two soldiers, killed eight ( Read more... )

got home from the airport at like 1am this morning.  so i slept in a couple hours, and worked from home the rest of the day today.  i like working from home.  i was able to get a nice sandwich from m&p's on washington street ( Read more... )

i'm such a loser.  these are songs i listened to in the air this morning:

beach boys - airplane

over the city in an airplane
i can see everything below
the houses they look so tiny
the cars look like dots
we’ve only got fifteen minutes to go

the clouds in the sky caress my mind so tenderly
the sun shines down on the great big beautiful scene

the sound of ( Read more... )

some of the best tv shows ever were set right here in chicago and its suburbs:

-married with children
-perfect strangers
-family matters
-roseanne

(chicago hope was actually set in cleveland.)

greetings from chicago ( Read more... )

early yesterday morning, lisa gave birth to her second beautiful daughter.

julia antoniette toledo: born 3:09am, 7/1/2006

she was born exactly 2 1/2 years after carolyn.   carolyn at 2am on 1/1/04.  dunno what that means, but its cool.   julia also looks exactly (and i mean exactly) like carolyn did as a newborn.  she's got the same head of hair, ( Read more... )

watch this ( Read more... )

paula zahn with a preview of her 8 o'clock show:

paula zahn: ...plus, america's epidemic of overeating: is it a lack of self control?  well, we've got some startling new research to show why some people may have been born to binge.  you see, they actually have an excuse to down about 16 oreo cookies in about a two hour period- (pause) actually, it's ( Read more... )