I'm Sorry...

...but "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips is amazing.

Amber and I were eating dinner at a restaurant in Stoughton on Sunday night and I heard this song coming from the bar area. And I thought to myself "This song is so sweet I must mention it in my blog" It's pure, power-pop, middle-of-the-road ballad bliss. Produced by Glen Ballard who engineered hits by artists from Dave Matthews Band to Madonna to Alanis Morrissette. The awesome drum fill in the end makes it for me. No matter how terrible a song is, if it has a sweet drum breakdown in the middle it gets 5 stars in my book.

Let's see, what else is new...

I've been biking a lot more recently and am starting to like it quite a bit. I'll be going tonight after work with a few friends. I enjoy how far you can travel on fairly little effort or you can really pound it and get an amazing workout. I'm not a fan of putting on all the gear, maintaining the bike and avoiding traffic but it's a nice change from high-impact running.

I'm operating on little sleep this week so far. On Tues. morning I got up at 4am to help make and serve breakfast at a homeless shelter by the capital and I didn't get to bed until 12:30 because I had my PE exam refresher course in Milwaukee from 7:30-9:30, then I drove back, then when I came home I put the bike on my car and Amber was still awake watching the Olympics so I started watching it and ate some dinner. Today I got up early to meet a friend for coffee and I may swing on down to the terrace later tonight after the bike ride to catch Shaft perform at open mic night while Amber is watching a movie with some friends. I think on Thursday I have nothing going on so I hope to relax for a night!

Man, I really like the temperatures around the area lately. Feels like early fall. I know it's way too soon for that but I'm not a huge fan of the crazy heat so I say bring it on! I'm definitely not ready for another winter like last year. Actually the best part about winter is not having to mow the lawn!

I'll be heading up to Hawkins, WI to visit my cousin this weekend who I haven't seen in about a year. I'm really looking forward to it. They live on this farm and have a few cows and they have a potato gun which we shoot at the silo. It's sounds redneck, but it's sooo much fun! And we can play paintball in the field behind their house. Killer.

The Longshots season is complete! We had our last game last Thursday and we lost fairly big I think. Our season record was 3-7 but a big improvement over last year. Dobbins played with us and had a few great hits and was clutch in shallow left field. Speaking of sports, how about them Brewers? Sabathia and Sheets are next in the order and sure to stomp San Diego this week. September is almost here and I'm starting to get pretty excited about their wildcard prospects and even winning the division! Man, I love baseball! I even convinced Amber to buy a Brewers shirt which would have been unheard of about 3 years ago. She claims she doesn't like sports but I think she's wearing down. She's a crazy Olympic watcher and can even handle a little baseball now and then.

Went to the Capital Brewery Biergarten last Friday with our Book Group and Old Man Dobbins and it was a blast. Do not ever go to see the band called "Swing Crew"! They are terrible and cheesy but drunk people love them I found out. They are a very gimmicky, untalented band. Afterwards we went to Hubbard's for cheesecake and coffee.

The Wurlitzer is fairing well. I took it apart on Sunday and vacuumed out all the junk, cleaned the keys and now I have to reassemble it tomorrow. Hopefully there aren't a pile of screws leftover when I'm done!

"Rock on London. Rock on Chicago. Goodnight."