A Week of Woo-Hoos

What a week! Spring is sorta-kinda here. Baseball is on. Here's why my week was pretty awesome, both for silly and intellectually sound reasons.
Hey, hey, what do you say? The Cubs are gonna win today.... Go Cubs Go! It's fun to see Cubs fans on the train - now at least that will possibly change when I'm standing about an inch away from a wastey-face fan screaming about Kerry Wood.


It appears - quite possibly because my newspaper got soaked in the rain today and became unreadable - that there is less stupid drama in the presidential campaign right now. I'm happy that it appears that democrats will act like democrats and talk about how republicans are evil. C'mon, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton can both agree that John McCain is scary, old and unhinged. Let's go with that, not yucky dem-on-dem infighting.


My 5K is in 8 days and I'm feeling rather prepared. Hip-hip-hooray. Tomorrow I might run with an iPod. Spooky.


Earth Hour, which sounds rather minor, saved 7 percent of the power used in Chicago last Saturday. Tall buildings, museums, Navy Pier's Ferris wheel and other buildings shut off the lights to support conservation. I love it! We should have an Earth Hour every week! Why are all those lights on in skyscrapers all night anyway?


Lastly I'm feeling really happy because we can open windows now, at least for a few hours in the afternoon. It makes a world of difference. Hearing birds chirp does a Mandasaurus good.