Since John’s gone soft, I figured I’d prolong the estrogen-fest. Here’s just little things that are the difference between just day-to-day life and the times when a relationship is actually clicking. Things that are above and beyond.

- She cleans the coffeepot even though she doesn’t drink coffee. – Stops taped show and switches on baseball game when you come downstairs from tucking in the kid. – Says “Why don’t you pick up the new (semi-expensive toy) you wanted?” – “Hey, do you wanna meet for lunch?” (On a work day)

Just a quick cautionary tale that you should always keep up with your domain name. Even though you may be the only Ashley McClaran in the world, someone will buy your domain name just because they know it was active at some point and they’ll use it to sell porn.

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Got the latest email spam from the folks over at T-Shirt Hell and I’ve culled the list to find the ones that (I consider) are a reasonable balance of wrong-ness and funny. (DO NOT peruse the T-shirt Hell site on your own or you WILL be offended and get angry. Seriously, these guys make Matt and Trey look like choir boys.) They have introduced a new product, wrapping paper, and most of the prints are just wrong, but this one is wrong and funny.

The best new shirt needs a little back-story. For Christmas one year KMc got me a set of beer glasses with “<#include beer.h>“ written on the side. I think he should get this shirt for Cynthia, but it might be too wrong.

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FYI: If you haven’t been over to PP in awhile (because it is so seldom updated), I’ve got a few new shots up there. If you feel like showing some of your own photography, I’ll be glad to setup an account for you.

This post serves two functions. The first is to waste your time with this cool website featuring Brian Battjer, Jr.‘s exploits expressed as photoblogs. Brian comes off a little over-manic sometimes, but it might be fun to run into him the next time I find myself in NYC. Also, I’ve developed a crush on his friend Tara. How can you not find a girl in Holly Hobby lingerie to be super cute? (Did she make it herself? That would be even cooler!)

Which leads to the second reason for this post. I am a living breathing man who is married to undoubtedly the most wonderful woman in the world. Is it wrong for me to admit that I still get crushes? Becky knows that she’s the entirety of my world and she shouldn’t be threatened by other women. Do I have to lie or hide the truth? That feels wrong to me.

I’m not really looking for marriage advice, since none of you readers live in our heads and can really truly understand the fullness of our relationship, but a discussion around full honesty in relationships would be nice.

Yeah, the Cubbies got the snot kicked out of them again last night. Proving my theory, again, that you don’t mess with drunks or their goats.

I’ll be brief, but the Cubs didn’t show up to play, and Florida did. I’d have preferred Chi(NL) to be going to the Series, but the Marlins flat out outplayed the Cubs for the last three games. The life-long Cub fan who (didn’t) blew game 6 needs to be put on a suicide watch, and needs to get in touch with Bill Buckner to start making the sports memoribilia circuit.

Pedro and Roger’s Steel Cage Death-Re-Match this evening in the Bronx will be an epic. I understand that Don Zimmer is actually going to wear wrestling tights under his pinstripes for a rematch. Hopefully, the ghost of Ruth is absent tonight.

So to make a short story long: In the process of dumping my CDs for my iPod, I came across the Those Who Dig CDs that Matthew Hart provided recently. (For those not in-the-know, here’s a short back-story with mp3s.) Since it’s a homemade CD of songs TWD released on cassette, it’s not in CDDB. So, I was out searching for song titles and while generally getting distracted I Googled one of the artists in the band, Kit Pongetti . Anyone who knows me knows that I had a crush on Kit back-in-the-day. She’s cute, intelligent and talented. She was someone I knew through 3-4 degrees of seperation that I thought was pretty cool.