Wait, Wait...

It is Friday. This is about the only day of the week that most of us agree is pretty cool. This is the end of your work-week (most likely) and this is the one day of the week that I am off from 00:01 minus :01 to 23:59 + :01. Is it too early for math? Sometime tonight we will record Dirty Laundry Podcast. Can you think of a more fun way to spend a Friday night? Me neither. We probably won't do a show next week as I will be on "special assignment." The stories you will get the following week will be well worth my "special assignment" work.

Last night Cha Cha and I went to Chicago to watch a taping of NPR's news quiz show "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" Don't be jealous because we live the lives of celebrities seeing shows that most people don't even know exist and, if they did, they wouldn't listen anyway because it may put them asleep. I think we will go back to see another one. The new "temporary" announcer/score-keeper starting in a couple of months is going to be Bill Kurtis (news legend and "star" of the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and the sequel as well as Investigative Reports and American Justice...). After the show you get to go up and meet the people in the show and I would like to meet Bill Kurtis. If I could get him to say, "I'm news legend Bill Kurtis and you're listening to Dirty Laundry Podcast" into my little digital recorder I would probably smile very wide (widely?) for at least two days. Our seats were in the second row just off center stage. We even got gift bags on our seats (the seats had a sign on them with our names) with a fancy water bottle (not one of those cheap plastic ones), the nice bag itself and a sampler CD - "not for sale - promotional use only." Kissing up to world-famous known heard podcasters much? It was a good time and very interesting. I came away with a lot of great ideas for the podcast (mostly technical ideas - microphones, set-up...).

I just learned that Bill Kurtis' real name is William Horton Kuretich.

Before the show we went across the street to Italian Village. It is a really nice restaurant. We had checked-in at the Chase Auditorium and wanted to get a drink. They have three bars: one upstairs, one downstairs and the one on the main level. We just went to the street-level one. Cha Cha had a couple of Bombay and tonics and I had a Margarita Italiana. We had planned to stop for dinner on the way home but by the time they had recorded one and 1/4 shows we didn't feel like stopping at Morton's Steakhouse or Copper's Hawk anymore so we just drove through the McDonald's parking lot in North Aurora (I had a cold grilled chicken sandwich on a stale bun). We also stopped for fuel on the way home. To fill the Fiat, which was nearly empty, cost $39.  That seemed like a really good deal since we had just paid $35 to park for a couple of hours in Chicago.

Today I am going to take the 4 Runner over and get an front-end alignment and a couple of new tires. I hate spending money on practical things but, sometimes I must. It is very nice outside so it is a good day to run errands. I would like to take the Fiat and put the top down but hard to get tires on the 4Runner while driving the Fiat. Later today I may also try to find another place to have sushi. It will probably be at Hy-Vee supermarket. It seems odd that they make sushi right in front of you at a grocery store doesn't it? I am sure it is good because they have Asian men and women making it. Is that racist? Not me saying that because it is a fact but Hy-Vee having only Asian people making their sushi. It does give me a better feeling that it will be good though (the Asian people part not the supermarket part). Why would sushi be any better in a restaurant than it would be in a grocery store?

Have you heard about the Smart Car tipping in San Francisco? People are coming out and finding their Smart Cars standing straight up or being on their sides or upside down. I predict, unfortunately, that this trend will spread to the rest of the country since it is getting some world-wide attention. I hope it doesn't spread to other small cars if you know what I am blogging.

The washer and dryer are beeping so it is time to fold, transfer and start a new load. Thank you for slowing down for a bit to stop here. I am not sure if I will be blogging tomorrow because I will probably be editing the podcast. If I have time I will though. I always let you know on the Matt In The Middle Facebook page if I do blog. I will also let you know when the podcast is ready on the Dirty Laundry Podcast page. Enjoy the day and your weekend if I don't blog at you before then. Do something you enjoy this weekend unless it involved tipping cars (cows like it - cars do not). TTT???...MITM (TIREd and out) TA!