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!

With my wife constantly “encouraging” me to watch our pennies, reminding me frequently that our budget is stretched very thin, I’ve started to become more interested in credit and debt managment.  She tells me that we are going too deeply into debt and are going to need some Credit Repair Services if I’m not more careful about spending our money. 

I told my wife that I ordered a book that talks about Credit Repair and reducing/eliminating debt.  My wife says “that’s easy to do, just stop spending money on junk we don’t need and we won’t need to have any kind of Bad Credit Repair services at all!”  Of course (and as usual) I ignore her completely, what does SHE know, after all?  If I decide that I need to Repair Credit, I’ll go to the repairyourbadcredit.com website and see what they have to say on the subject.

I heard that Morgan Freeman, one of my favorite actors, was badly injured in a car accident.  They had to use the jaws of life to cut him out of the car he was in.  I was reading about it on the Time.com website, but was a little disappointed in the limited amount of information that they had to date.  The article says that the car he was in was airborne and landed in a ditch, but did not say if any other cars were involved, or even if he was alone in the car.  They did say he is in critical condition.  I hope he pulls through!

My wife has been talking about buying some playground equipment to put in our backyard for when our nieces and nephews come over to visit.  Our own kids are full grown, so our own slides and swings are old and dilapidated and no longer safe.  But we have a lot of family, with a lot of young children that come over frequently and we think that we should have some great outdoors activities for them to do.  This would help to save wear and tear on the interior of our house, not to mention wear and tear on my wife’s frazzled nerves!

We were looking at some great daycare equipment at the swingset.com website.  They have a great looking residential jungle gym that we think is the perfect answer to the situation.  They have a ten year warranty on their product, and the jungle gym is customizable so we can pick and choose what components we want to have.