CUBBIES

Tuesday night Aim and I went to see the Cubbies play the Brewers, courtesy of Popps comin through with some tickets. It was a high scoring game but the Cubs lost... It was more like a Bears game cause it was 39 degrees out.. BUUURRR-




I really liked this pic....Look close enough you can clearly see that I was eating peanuts. Most times I do not show teeth in pics.... I will probably stick with that, or lay off the peanuts-

The Wrigley Field Five made an appearance tonite... I used to play the trombone I should have jumped in for a tune-

Our friend Chris Signs recently moved here from Arizona, he will be pitching for the Schaumburg Fliers this summer... He used to play for the Brewers so he had seats in the players section too

Great seats Thanks POPP!

Must see

HILARIOS! Aim and I saw it Monday... We loved it. If you liked Knocked up, 40 year Old Virgin, and Superbad --See it!

RED SMOKE

Saturday I made a trip out to my old school, Palatine High School. Palatine holds the oldest relays and track meet in Illinois. This was the 76th running of the relays. Coach Nalley asked me to come out and speak to the team before the meet to motivate them. I still hold all 17 hurdle records there and he thought it would be a big deal for the team. I was honored to do so. While I was speaking about the relays when I was in school I gave myself goose bumps, and I showed them that some day when they look back on their realys experience they will too.(all improv)Pretty sweet

Coach Theberge was my coach for cross country and track. He and I got along real well. Back in the day Chermak and I called him Ruben all the time cause he looks like the character from the Sally Field movie Norma Ray-(film class)

The actors name is Ron Leibman (Ironically its Ron Theberge)







It was a windy day but over all a good day for a track meet. Palatine won the meet by 58 points.

After the meet I went inside to use the bathroom and snapped a pic of the school record board. Looks like they need some new letters... And of course the only ones that are missing are in my name and the year on one as well. Oh well-

HOT CAKES

The Fukudome head bands are sellin like hot cakes... 3000 are sold so far... NOT BAD!
He is batting .351 so if that keeps up we may order another 5000.



It is catchin on all over

A Weekend to Remember

Last weekend Aim and I went to the Marriot for AJ and Wendy's X-mas present to us. "A Weekend to Remember" it is a convention for couples that are engaged, married or have been married for 30 plus years. It was pretty amazing to see all the different types of couples that were there.


If you look close at the picture, you can see that alot people have their arm around their significant other... Pretty funny

INGAPP Strikes again

Since I have finished Skewerz my stock has went up a bit. I recently contracted to do another restaurant called "Kamp". The project is for the same owners of Moonshine- Business is good so far- I am getting alot of referrals and storm season is right around the corner so this should be a good year!



This is the main floor and lounge area. We just gutted the space and are putting in the sub-flooring starting Monday

This place needs alot of work so I will busy-

Big things-

This is the Sunset Foods that Dad referred me to in Lake Forrest. It has a giant cedar roof on it that we will be replacing. This is one of the biggest jobs I have ever signed... Thanks Popp!


140 squares of roofing, not bad!!
We will be replacin the entire strip mall. This should take us about a week to complete-CHA-CHING!

Its Go time!

I have been working out at Gotime fitness and just doing some Boxing and Kick-boxing for cardio and alternative workout. We took a test from level 1 to level 2 Muay Thai
on Tuesday. It is a nice outlet and I enjoy it



The guy to my left is a pro-fighter "Ruthless" Robbie Menigoz he is my Muay Thai instructor

check out Ruthlessrobbie.net He is pretty good 4-0 as a pro 11-1 as an amatuer he'll make it to the UFC or WEC some day

Skewerez

I have not blogged in a while. I have been very busy with work, wedding etc.
But I am putting the finishing touches on the restaraunt Skewerz that I contracted. Here are some pics of the progress

The ceiling and the fan that took about 2 weeks to customize

The service counter




Pretty much finished with everything

The exterior of the building that we painted-


The Skewerez shirts came in also, so we wore them to lunch Billy, myself, Jak the co-owner and the Chef Mike the owner.

Not up Aim's alley

Friday and Saturday night Aim and I rented a couple flicks and stayed in... First we watched the Darjeeling Limited-


Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. It was very slow but I thought funny in a dry sense.. Aim gave it 2 very big thumbs down. If you enjoyed the movie Rushmore(which i loved) you will truly enjoy this one.



Saturday we watched The Southland Tales... This movie was awesome! If you like Sci-Fi this movie is perfect. Again Aim.. not a fan, she zonked out in the beginning. But
I stayed up and watched it. Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic Los Angeles on July 4, 2008,(which is sweet cause that is the near future) after there is a nuclear strike in the states. The movie juggles social, economic and environmental disaster with clones and 4th dimensional worm holes. If you saw Donnie Darko this one is similar with twists and turns only better- I loved it-Popps this one does not suck-


Although Aim did not enjoy these.... I recall sitting through "Dan in real life", and "No Reservations" in the theatre... I was due-


Are you kidding me?

The sun was setting today- and I thought it was a pretty sight the way the light hit the buildings-Summer is on the way-