Jelly Bellly

I got home from work after 12, stayed up til 3 w/ Lisa, now @ Jelly Belly w/ the family

Flashpoint

Normally I'd rather shave my ears with a rusty spoon than watch another TV show about 1. cops 2. lawyers or 3. Doctors. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. But due to the kids losing the remote, we were stuck watching the cop drama 'Flashpoint' on CBS tonight. Not bad. Not great, but not bad.

Final Sale/A Borrowed Life

A few night's ago we watched another made for TV movie "A Borrowed Life". It's a surprisingly well acted mystery about a couple who pays for an illegal kidney transplant, then deals with the repercussions when the donor dies on the table.

* I believe the film is also known as "Final Sale"

A Day at Indian Mound Reservation with Smiley

swimming in silver lake w/ my swim buddy Smiley

Want

I want a chair like this (not in that pattern tho)

Taken in the UWM Union

Confined

We streamed a Canadian TV movie called "Confined", about a woman who suspects her neighbor of keeping captives in his basement. Obviously she's right or there wouldn't be a movie, but what I kept coming back to was this: she was a paranoid, nosy, nearly delusional woman who just happened to score a W. Put her in any other neighborhood and she'd do the same things to anyone. Kinda creepy in that regard.

Bossypants

I finished reading Tina Fey's autobiography "Bossypants". It was funny and well written, and features some genuine tips on leadership sprinkled amidst the funnies. I still think her time on SNL is over-valued because of the novelty of her gender (at the time), but I have a lot more respect for her now.

Your Attention Please:

Today, at 2:06 pm CST on July 27th, 2011, at the age of 37, I had my first Big Mac.

@ the Domes

We All Fall Down by Michael Harvey

Late last night I finished reading Michael Harvey's 'We All Fall Down', a novel about a bio-terror attack on Chicago. I thought it was OK, but I won't be picking up other books by the author. The style was a little 2nd rate Spillane for my taste. It also took way too long for the main thrust of the novel to take shape, and when it did it held center stage for the blink of an eye. It grades at a C.

An afternoon at Bradford Beach

This afternoon I took my four kids and YaYa's friend Anna down to Bradford beach - alone. Yikes. It went smoothly, and we spent 2 1/2 hours down there enjoying the water and playing in the sand. Those who know me well know that although I don't avoid the water since the drowning incident, I traditionally wouldn't think of taking the kids to a pool/lake alone. This was progress.