With the new year upon us, it’s time to make a list of goals that I’d like to accomplish in 2009. I think “goals” is a better term for my purposes than “resolutions”, since resolutions carries a connotation of changing bad behavior while goals gives a sense of moving forward. I want to move forward, [...]
Archive for December, 2008
It’s being reported that Blagojevich will appoint 71-year-old Roland Burris, a former state attorney general, to fill president-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat. How can this appointment be anything but tainted, given the recent allegations that have come to light concerning Ill. governor Rod Blagojevich’s conduct? Why would Burris even accept such an appointment, if [...]
We have a 37-inch LCD flat-panel television that we bought two years ago to replace a 25-inch CRT model. We spend so much money on the TV set, however, that we didn’t have any left over to buy a new entertainment center or stand to accommodate the flat-panel. As a result, the TV extends well [...]
I’m talking about the Chicago Bears 2008 football season here. The team just couldn’t get it done against Houston this afternoon, falling on the wrong side of a 31-24 final score. Of all the possible playoff scenarios I listed after the Monday night victory, winning this final game was a prerequisite, so it doesn’t matter [...]
I went out with a couple of friends today for a champagne brunch at the Four Seasons downtown. I used to do that quite frequently about 10 years ago, but hadn’t been in a long time, mostly because the group of women I used to go with got married, had kids, and no longer had [...]
I just wanted to take a moment here to wish all of you a very merry Christmas today! I hope Santa was good to you and brought you everything you wanted! We had a pretty low-key celebration. Because of various reasons, we capped our spending at $100 per person in order to keep things under [...]
The Chicago Bears’ slim playoff hopes are still intact after an amazing weekend of football in which all the stars aligned for the team. First of all, in order to even be in the picture at this point, the Bears needed the Cowboys to lose to the Ravens, the Vikings to lose to the Falcons, [...]