Dreaming of days like this is what gets me thru January and February. A perfect 75, sunny, with little wind or humidity. Rain in the forecast tomorrow so I think I'll put some grass seed down in a few bare spots. It's been a quiet day today with little opportunity to save any dogs like yesterday.
A big welcome to Lithuania who becomes the 20th country to visit the blog. I'm totally amazed by the amount of international support in the first 6 months of existence. Thank you so much!
We've been watching every episode of 24 so far starring Kiefer Sutherland. It's such a well written show and it's really suspenseful.
The NBA draft is this thursday. Another batch of young millionaires in the making. The top 3 picks seem pretty set but I'll give you my top 7 picks in a couple days just for fun.
A recent 1972 diary was recently discovered. It's owner was Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Caray. He had just moved to Chicago to start broadcasting the White Sox games. It's easy to see in this diary how Harry obtained his moniker, "The Mayor of Rush Street."
This diary is basically a record of the bars he visited. In those days, one could write off martini lunches for a varied myriad of reasons. Apparently, the diary is very meticulous with exact amounts of bar tabs for tax write off purposes. Anybody else would have been audited with amounts that high, but Harry was Harry.
Some of Harry's drinking buddies that year included boxer Jack Dempsey, New York Yankee Joe Pepitone, and the great Wilt Chamberlain. But the most staggering figure has to be the 288 consecutive days of bar visits. Oh Harry, Chicago and I really miss you. Even in death, the legendary broadcasting icon still speaks.
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Holy cow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's a lot of "Tinis" and "Brown Mumblers"!
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