Bonny Portland

An annual tradition continues today. The perpetual losers come to Comiskey to see what a World Series Championship Trophy looks like.

I found this great commercial. Enjoy!

The Blackout could refer to several different things in the past few days.

We woke up on Saturday morning to find out that we had no power. The fire alarm system kept chirping letting us know (if we couldnt notice the fact that we had no electricity for ANYTHING) that we didn't have power. I took a shower in the darkness before the hot water from our electric hot water heater ran out. We went for breakfast, a good section around us was also without power. By the time we got back, all was well.

The Blackout could also refer to last Tuesday when US Cellular field was Blacked out by all the fans wearing black (over 40,000)! Sox beat the Twins to send them to the ALDS against Tampa.

OR, the Rolling Blackout could also refer to Sunday, where the White Sox came home down 0-2 and continued the Blackout to the tune of their first win of the series!

We had a good weekend. Went to the Greek Festival on Saturday night. Lots of tasty Greek food. We arrived too late to get tickets for Lamb #8, the last lamb of the night. I guess there was some culture somewhere, but they did a good job hiding it. The rest of the food was great and we loved these honey donut holes..


Sunday was AWESOME. First, the Bears destroyed the Lions. Second, the White Sox beat the Rays. Third, Olivia and I went to see Rachael Yamagata in concert! She has the flu but still put together an awesome show. The opening act was horrid, but I pounded through a few Pabst Blue Ribbons and soon Rachael herself was on stage. She played both old and new stuff, her new album drops on Tuesday, the 7th. I hadn't seen her perform for years and I was extremely excited to see her play again!

Come on White Sox, Lets win one more time at home and take the series back to Tampa!!

The Blackout WORKS! The Chicago White Sox are your 2008 AL Central Division CHAMPS!

Enjoy that LOOONG ride home Twinkies. Perhaps you shouldn't have celebrated like you won something LAST week. Beating you on our field was worth it.

Portland just got a taste of Chicago White Sox baseball. I'm sure everyone in my apartment complex heard me! Next up, time to bring the pain to the Minnesota Twins!!!!

Exciting weekend! We had a visit from the local fire department on Saturday! We had the entire apartment complex evacuated!

Saturday Night, Olivia is making us a nice steak dinner. It gets real smoky and eventually sets off our fire alarm. We can't get it shut off. We have all of our windows open and nothing works, so we open up the door to our hallway too. Soon, the entire building's fire alarm goes off and everyone evacuates. Building manager comes over to the apartment and we try to explain, can't do anything till the fire department arrives. I go outside to explain to people what happened, that everything is ok, and that I'm sorry. Everyone understands but they can't go back in because the entire building is in lockdown. One young lady asks me "Do you need some help cooking?" She's lucky I didn't rat her out to Olivia. Fire department comes running in with axes and equipment. I try to stop them, tell them there is no need to run but they go pounding on Olivia's door and turn everything off. Nice first impression with the neighbors, I think =)

Earlier on Saturday my desk was delivered from EcoPDX. Its really sweet. It looks awesome and I'm happy to have a desk again.

On Sunday, we went back to Apizza Scholls for Sicilian Sunday. Definitely prefer the regular selection over this pan style. But it was worth noting because they sell OLDSTYLE in tallboy cans! We went right before the Bears game so I was excited. Old Style and a Bears win.. woo!

Bears: They are tied for 1st place in the NFC North with a Sunday Night WIN over the Eagles!!!
White Sox: They have driven me to the brink this week. A 2.5 game lead with one week to go has become being behind 0.5 games. They have to win on Monday for the right to play a game on Tuesday against Minnesota to get into the playoffs. They've been a real disappointment. This was the first game they won IN A WEEK. The team has NO heart. I don't know why I keep watching...