Monday Monday 7.29.2008

Good Morning,

The sequence of on-time distributed Monday Monday emails ended swiftly with a one week streak. I’m writing this initial paragraph on Tuesday, so I guess we’ll see how long it takes me to get this edition out.

In terms of my hectic lifestyle, this weekend leaves me with little excitement to speak of. On Friday, Maggie and I brought her car to the garage as they neglected to completely fix her problem with the transmission. Their work is still under warranty, so I suppose we won’t mind too much as long as the job gets done properly this time around. We also stopped at NAPA Auto Parts to pick up the necessary equipment to fix the Air Conditioning in my car. With Dustin’s help on Saturday morning, I got the car’s AC back up and running. By the time I left for my drive to Annapolis on Sunday, the AC decided to stop working again. At this point, I don’t think there is anything I can do about it without spending more significant dollars (something I’m just not willing to do).

Our MLB Stadium tour came to a crashing halt this week after a two week, three stadium tour. We have two stadiums left on the agenda this year: Comerica Park in beautiful (and I use the term loosely) Detroit and Progressive (formerly known as Jacob’s) Field in the home of Drew Carey – Cleveland, Ohio. Oddly enough, when we go to see the Indians in Cleveland they will be playing the Tigers.

I’ve polished off a couple of books in the last month: The Dubliners by James Joyce and The Testament by John Grisham. The Dubliners is off the classical shelf and gives us an inside view of Dublin life around the turn of the 20th century. The Testament is another of John Grisham’s law based novels that I actually started in January, put down, and picked back up 7 months later. Now that I’ve finally read it, I can’t understand why I ever put it down. I’m currently reading Grisham’s latest novel, The Appeal, but will soon begin my somewhat yearly quest of re-reading the Harry Potter books. I’ve timed my reading of the Potter books to coincide with the release of the sixth movie this November. For those of you that care, the movie trailer will be released today at 9PM and should feature a glimpse of Lord Voldemort as a child.

My viewing of The Dark Knight continues to elude me, but I’m holding out for IMAX. As of right now I have plans to watch it next Saturday (not this one coming up). With everything I’ve read and heard, this 2 and a half hour epic should be the best movie to come out in 2008 thus far. I read in USA Today, that it was the fastest movie ever to hit 300 million. I guess you’ll read my non-spoiling review in a couple of weeks.

We’re off to Pennsylvania this weekend to spend our first weekend of the Summer at our house there. I’m excited for a weekend without internet, chores, cell phones, agendas, and calendars. We should get in late Thursday Night, and we won’t leave until Sunday afternoon.

As I said before, there isn’t a lot going on right now, so I’ll leave you with that. Have a good week!