I'm back and better than ever...

Fear not, my dear friends, this blog has not been shutdown. I know some time has past between my last post and this one, but I am now back. The Man and The Wife have both been keeping me busy, but know that you were always on my mind.

If you haven’t done so already, I highly recommend you check out Andy Stanley’s series on How To Be Rich. I just got around to listening to it and so far (part 1) it’s great.

I also recommend you check out the podcasts from my new favorite church.

Like you, I am excited that Psych is back (season 5 started last Wednesday). Check it out every Wednesday night at 10:00pm on USA. As I’m sure you will remember, Psych is up there with NCIS as my favorite TV show.

I had a chance to visit MaMa last night. It’s always great seeing her. Mary Ruth loves being her “nurse”. I also got to see Mom, Dad, Teri, Meredith, Ansley, Uncle George, Aunt “PBR” Yvonne, and Susan. Somehow (and I don’t know how this happened... really, I don’t... ok, maybe I brought it up) it became known last night that I am Mom’s favorite child. “Ok”, you’re saying, “big deal... we already knew that”. True, but it also became known last night that I am in the top 2 of Aunt Yvonne’s favorite children (fyi... she has 3 of her own kids, so she likes me more than she likes 2 of them. And listen, I’m not saying she doesn’t like, nay, love all of her children... I’m just sayin she likes me more).

So we were talking to MaMa last night and The Wife was standing there holding Susie. Susie has learned to wave since the last time we saw MaMa, so of course we were all trying to get her to wave. MaMa was laying there waving to Susie and we’re all waving back to MaMa and telling Susie “Wave to MaMa”. Susie is smiling at MaMa but not doing anything else. So we keep this up for a couple of minutes until I notice that Susie is waving like a champ... only it’s her left hand/arm that’s waving and it’s behind The Wife (so nobody could see it).

I was asked a question last night and it’s one I’ve been asked before. Who is Sonny? My gut reaction to this question is “Read my blog and you’ll find out”. My other gut reaction to this is “You are in my family and you can’t figure out who Sonny is?” Another gut reaction (hey, I have a big gut) is “Why don’t I get these questions from non-family members?” Alas, I will move away from my gut reactions and give a reaction from my brain (just one... it’s smaller than my gut)... Pay attention because I don’t plan on explaining this again. Sonny is my brother Kevin. I can already tell this explanation will lead to another question “Why do you call him Sonny?” The short answer is there are two reasons: 1. It’s my blog. 2. I want to. The longer answer is this: Watch The Godfather. While watching The Godfather, picture me as Michael (this shouldn’t be hard to do, I do it all the time). Now, if I’m Michael that would make Kevin either Sonny or Fredo. So let’s take a look at Sonny and Fredo (keeping in mind that I like Kevin). Sonny was the head of the family for a brief time while the Don was in the hospital, so he’s seen as a leader. He also had a temper and ended up being gunned down at a toll booth (but not before helping start a war between the 5 families). Fredo was weak/sickly who fumbled the gun when the Don got shot and just sat there crying instead of going after the guys. He also betrayed Michael (one of the best scenes from The Godfather II... Michael kisses Fredo and says “I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart”) and ended up being executed by Al Neri (on Michael’s orders) while fishing. Now, if that doesn’t clear up why Kevin is called Sonny, then I don’t know what will.

So I had another chance to spend some time on the water with my new friend Adrian. 3 weekends in a row.... I’m starting to think she just likes seeing me in a bathing suit. Of course her husband was also there (I know he just likes seeing me in a bathing suit).

My Cubs are looking for a new manager now that Lou Piniella has announced he is going to retire at the end of the season. For the record, I’m just sayin... is endorsing Ryne Sandberg for the position. Ryno is a Cub great and has been a manager in their minor leagues for a few years now. I say give him a chance.

Word on the street is that the NBA is looking at just giving my Miami Heat the title next season. Why bother making teams play and risk having guys get hurt when everyone knows my boys are going to win. The only way this team could be any better is if they could somehow convince Charles Oakley to come out of retirement.