Dr Copa

My cousin is a big Chicago Cubs fan.  He sent me an email yesterday that I was just reading a few minutes ago about how excited he is that his office is going to arrange for a Wrigley roof top party for the entire office and their families.  The party is going to be held at the Ivy League Baseball Club Rooftop location which is across the street from Wrigley Park.

I’ve never been to Wrigley Park, and so I find it hard to imagine that watching a game from a rooftop across the street from Wrigley Park would be better than watching the game from inside the stadium!  But he says that the rooftop has a great view of the park, and is only 478 feet away from home plate!

The Ivy League Baseball Club is endorsed by the Chicago Cubs, and can accommodate from ten to two hundred people.  They serve food and beverages right there on the rooftop!  I was looking on the Internet at their website and saw that it looked like a great place for a party!  Their website lists their menu, which is standard ballgame fare, and has an interesting fact sheet that tells about how their club is the first rooftop club that was established in 1914.  He’s invited me to come join them; I’ll have to check my schedule!

My friend Mike just called me. He had just gone to Maine for the weekend. He had to rent one of those “do it yourself” moving trucks to bring some furniture home from his mother’s house. He rented a Budget brand truck. He took his Tom-Tom GPS unit with him to guide him home. He’s never had very good luck with maps, and has complete faith in his GPS unit. It will run for only about four hours on its own battery, so it came with a cigarrette lighter adapter to plug it into the cigarrette lighter to keep it running longer. It’s about a fourteen hour drive from Maine to his house.

He was some upset when he got in the truck, all loaded and ready to come home, plugged in the GPS unit and discovered that the cigarrette lighter didn’t work! He didn’t know how to come home! So he used the GPS sporadically, turning it on for a few minutes to see how long he had to drive on this stretch of road until the next turn, then turned it off until that turn. Doing that he made it last until he got home. He is planning on having a few words with the Budget Truck company when he turns in that truck!