Month: September 2019

Good Afternoon All! My better half, Judy, continues to make progress from her recent hip replacement surgery.  It was truly amazing how she completed her hip surgery and came home all in the same day!  She is the best patient to have at home and Nurse Mark (me) is trying to keep up with her…Read more

Good Morning All! Well, that was some kind of U.S. Open Tennis Match Final last night!  How about the phenomenal level of play from the two finalists, Nadal & Medvedev (sp?)?   My wife, Judy, is a HUGE Rafa Nadal fan, so needless to say, you can tell who we were rooting for last night.  But…Read more

Good Morning All!   My grandson, Josh, of the “Rockets” made a great play in left field yesterday in the first game of a doubleheader with the “Cobras”!  He backed up an errant throw to third base that would have resulted in runners advancing, if it wasn’t due to his heads up play.  Here’s to…Read more

Good Morning All! Good luck to my grandson, Joshua (Josh), and his baseball team the “Rockets”, as they start their fall baseball season today with a doubleheader against the “Cobras” at the Dwight Merkel Baseball Center next to Joe Albi Stadium today starting at 12:30 p.m..  GO JOSH!  There’s a great picture of Josh swinging…Read more

Good Morning All! Happy Birthday to our friend Curt, musical theater actor extraordinaire in New York City who hails from Butte, Montana!  Here’s to you, Curt!  And Happy Birthday to singer Merald “Bubba” Knight of “Gladys Knight & The Pips” fame, who is 77 today; and to golfer extraordinaire Tom Watson, who turns 70 today! …Read more

Good Morning All & Happy National Skyscraper Day (I’ll bet you didn’t know there was a “National Skyscraper Day”!), Speaking of skyscrapers, what’s your favorite skyscraper?  The Transamerica Pyramid will always be a favorite of mine…it’s situated in one of my favorite cities…”the city by the bay”…San Francisco! Speaking of favorite things (in this case…Read more

Good Morning All! Happy Birthday to actor Katsumi Tanaka of the original “Godzilla” movie fame (who can forget those cheesy Japanese monster flicks in Japanese?), who turns an amazing 107 years old today!; and to premier violinist Itzhak Perlman, who is 74 today!  And here’s to good friend and spouse/contractor/classic car buff extraordinaire, Greg in…Read more