Pictures of Love...

#1. Our very first picture of love... That was a lot of lbs. ago... So I guess it's true, first comes love...

#2. Then comes marriage...

#3. Then comes a baby in a baby carriage...

#4. Who just happens to be as cute as a bunny... So we cuddled her... and loved her...



#5. Even Grandpa fell in LOVE!!!!


#6. And Grandma did too...


#7. Mom caught her gaze, with one look she knew...

Mondays? I ain't afraid of no stinking Mondays!

I you are having a bad Monday or any other day, check out this video. If you are having a great Monday, or any other day, check out this video. If you don't smile and feel better, then you are not related to me. Sing it all day long!!




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJwgP44Ap9E

Deep Thoughts by Paul Wurth

* This is one of my favorite pictures of Grace. If there are any talent agents looking at our blog, I would like to note that her father is EVEN BETTER looking then her and you may contact me anytime for modeling gigs.

and now for deep thoughts...

Great posts lately by all. I really enjoy what I am reading lately. Nick and Leah put a couple of good ones up and Katie has broadened our idea of what can be done with this blog by posting her 'dilemas' (sp?)

I would still like to see more from our matriarchal leader and the youngest, but so far so good.

Not much from me today, I thought I would just post a joke that I really enjoyed.

Ted Nugent on Hunting:

Nugent, an avid hunter, was being interviewed by a French journalist.

The journalist asked, "What do you think the last thought is in the mind ofa deer before you shoot it?Is it, "Are you my friend?" or is it, "Are you the one who killed mybrother?

"Nugent replied,"Deer aren't capable of that kind of thinking. All they care about is,What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I runfast enough to get away. They are very much like the French."

That's just good comedy.

I'm out.

PS- Dad- go with your sign off, not some abbreviated version....Dont be that guy.

Winter Blues

Another good blog Nick. Glad to see Katie and Tim participating in the discourse. Tim went to Lion King last night, I will be anxious to hear his thoughts. Mom and Annie thought it was the best they had seen.

Your predicament of where to watch the game is touching, excuse me if I don't shed a tear. Now this bet between Anthony and Davis is intriguing, I appreciate Anthony taking one for the team and putting himself out there. Tell Davis I wish him the best, the best Hilarytastic or (Obamazing) voting experience anyone could ever have.

As the title suggests, feeling a bit blue and done with winter. I need to get my sticks out and enter another season of frustration and heartache.

What does everyone think of expanding our net a bit? What if we invite some cousins, aunts, uncles etc into the fray? Thoughts please.

Thats all I've got, admittedly weak but there it is.

ILYAMTTY
WooHoo

Chicago Bear Ramblings

Well, this post is coming a little earlier in the week than normal, but for reasons that will follow. For those of you not aware the beloved Chicago Bears are going to the superbowl in two weeks, and this has caused no shortage of histeria (or Devin Hesteria) in the greater Chicago land area. We are currently trying to find out where to watch the game because no one's house is big enough, and after the shennanigans that happened at the NFC championship game (read: drink spillage and uncontrolled jubilation) no one is really up for having the game at their place. And the Bars in chicago aren't exactly making it easy - for instance one bar that we go to has a $65 charge for a seat, yes that is what you pay to have the right to sit down inside the bar for the game. you also get free drinks for 3 hours before the game but its a cash bar during game time. Since any chair I pay $65 for I expect to take home with me - I don't see this as an option at this time.

Not only are the bears in the superbowl but they are playing the Colts - the beloved team of my roommate. We've decided not to wager on. the game because it could get ugly. Just to let you know how serious its getting around here Davis and Anthony (who some might remember from my law grad party - who is a staunch democrat and diehard bears fan) have decided to bet away their presidential voting rights in the 2008 election. Thats right - if the Bears win Davis will be voting for Clinton or Obama and I can't tell you how excited I am for that possibility. (note: the mere process of having either one vote for the opposite party is significant, however, no vote will matter in Chicago - the dems will win). As for everything else, same old same old - just registered for an 8k and paid the fee so Im stuck now. That's all for now:

Read: "Don Quixote" Miguel De Cervantes. Ever want to know where the term "quixotic" came from? Well do like me and pick up this 400 year old book and find out. So far so good but haven't had time to make a real dent yet.

Listen: My Chemical Romance: Welcome to the Black Parade. Awesome Rock album - title track is the best (see below) but the entire album is somewhat of a novella - meant to be listened to in order from start to end.

Watch: My Tribute to the Bears - featuring the lead song in My Chemical Romance. I kind of got hooked on the video editing thing after the christmas video. So check it out. (note: it might get deleted from youtube because of copyrighted images but we'll see so watch it ASAP and if it doesn't embed right below just click on the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp3laY3KuVg

So Do I

PAUL - For some reason I can't leave comments after I was messing around with my profile. but I can still post - not sure why. Try inviting me again to the blog because it says Im not part of the team.

Katie - Be more specific about what you mean and I'll try to come up with some ideas for you. Is it like "2 for 1 taco night on Monday" or something more developed?

Bob...Bob...Bob...

Hello there... Its me... Grace, the 'Pride and Joy' of all of you who will read this...I had to log-on under Mom's name, because for some reason the 'rents' don't feel as though I am old enough to have my own, but that is only one of many things they think I am not old enough for. Little do they know, and all of you for that matter, that I have more wittiness and intelligent activity happening in my finely shape head, than that dull cartoon baby character found on that juvenile cartoon show Uncle Nick seems to always watch when he comes into town... I believe it to be named, the Family Guy or something.
None the less it stereotypes us babies as cynical individuals who believe our fathers to be nothing more than an over weight couch potato who only loves food and football... Which is totally not true for me, in fact my father is still in reasonable shape (FYI- he and mom have been attempting to even improve their life style choices) and loves ME... Food and football. And about being cynical, even though I find the way over zealous patrons in the local Hy-Vee goggling over me fairly annoying, I am quite optimistic of the world around me... In fact I find it intriguing to explore the excitement of this thing called life...
I may only be 10 months and 6 days but I have this thing whole thing figured out... I cry when I want to eat, I push one out to let everyone know when I need my pants changed and I scream when people attempt to put me to bed and I am just not ready. Plus, if I not 'feeling' someone I reach for whom I want to hold me, and Wa-La... I get it!
For those of you who are on me about crawling, especially you Mr. 'Chicago Rambler,' Why should I? All of you are the morons who made the choice to start walking... Seriously, while I continued to be carried from place to place, day after day you have to get your own self up out of bed and go to work and yadie...yadie...yadie...
Don't hate me 'cause you ain't me... I am smarted than I appear. For your information, I plan on continuing to play this card as long as I see fit... Just think about Grandma carrying you home from the bars every night, changing you into your PJ's and even giving you a bottle of whatever your little heart desires... Who wouldn't want that!
Alright so enough of that tangent, let's move on... My next form of business... Grandma and Grandpa, I have learned how to kiss, if fact I have known all along, so if you would please stop slap'n wet ones on each other every Tuesday and Thursday that would be great... I already have enough 'verp-iage' going on from when Mom puts me in my pants that are too tight, I don't need any assistance from you... Thanks!

OK... so Mom and Dad are probably wondering why I haven't woken up from my nap time slumber, so I better, skip, that's right, I said skip, back to my crib and call out “Bob” a few times so they don't think I am up to anything... But before I go I'd just like to say... I love you all!
Peace my puppets! I'm Out!

My very first blog

Okay...I have finally found my way on to the family blog. I do not appreciate what has been said in my absence though. I will have you know I am very busy studying for the GMAT, which I am taking in March, and not snuggling as a certain someone has stated previously. By the way I no longer work at the prestigous Lighthouse Bar and Grill. Mainly because I got tired of that place but it could of been because I got let go....however you want to look at it. Maybe if my family would stop scheduling events on the days that I had work then I might still have a job...I'm just saying.

Well that is all I have to say. Wow that felt good, my first blog posting.

Thanks for reading some more interesting facts will follow.

Chicago Ramblings

This is the first of my previously mentioned weekly posts about the goings ons in Chicago. I spent about 2 days pondering what the title would be, and after much deliberation settled on the above. For those who don't know the Loyola mascot is the Rambler and Rambling is what I'll be doing on these posts. As a bonus, Nick's Rules of Life #122 states: Never pass up a chance to use a clever double entendre. On we go:

2007 is starting out as one of those "well it can only get better from here years." I am now 0-2 on jobs where I got a second interview and have recently been informed that when my loans go off of their grace period in a month I will owe something along the lines of $52,000 per month for the next 77 years. I also have a hang nail. Other than that things are actually ok. The Bears have been a welcome distraction these past couple weeks and I'm looking forward to a big house party on Sunday. Side note: We went to a bar for the game last week (12:00 start) and there were lines formed outside the majority of sports bars as early as 10:00 Am - bars don't open until 11. So we aren't messing with that this weekend because with a 2:00 start we'd still have to get there around 9 in the morning. Davis is going to the Colt's game and I can't begin to tell you how happy I will be if the Bears play the Colts in the Super Bowl. Mind you, if the Bears win I may be looking for a new place to live - but dare I say it might be worth it. Also, I just signed up to run a 5K called the Shamrock Shuffle. Its a pretty popular thing for 20 somethings in Chicago and is the weekend after St. Patty's day. Not sure what Im getting myself into but I heard the party for the runners afterwards was bumpin.

As with all my posts I'd like to include what I've been doing to expand my horizon's/tastes in the 07. Or just what I've been into lately. Just suggestions for anyone looking for something new to entertain them. Here's the first installment:

Listen: Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane over the Sea. You can put this in the "expansion of horizons" category. This isn't for everyone but I ran across the album and kind of like it, but its a little different. Melissa might be the only one into it. Think: something Zach Braff would like meets Radiohead.

(for all you new Ipod'ers: you can preview all the songs on the album in Itunes. On this particular album I recommend "Holland, 1945" and "In the Aeroplane over the Sea")

Read: "Life of Pi" by Yan Martel. I realize this is a couple years old and some of you may actually have read it already, but I just finished it in 3 days. It was a little odd at first but the ending is well worth it. (almost like you read 399 pages to get set up for one sentence) For those of you who need a little reaffirmation of faith in your life - like I did/do - this is a great, entertaining read.

Watch: Rome, Season 2. Decidedly not an expansion of any horizon, but put it this way: The Bears won their first playoff game in 20 years last Sunday AND Jack Bauer was welcomed back to watercooler conversations around the country, but the best thing on TV was the season 2 premier of Rome. Mind you I watched it after the other two and I may or may have not been drinking in celebration of the aformentioned NFL game but it was frigging sweet. Not for the faint of heart, but damn I want to be a Roman back then.

Predictions

Looking a 2007 we can expect the following:

1) Mom and Dad to quit smoking.
2) Mom to run a road race, not necessarily a marathon but maybe 5k or the like.
3) Nick will get a sweet job.
4) Tim will pass the GMAT and find a job that will pay for school.
5) Katie will get her marketing degree and land a dream job as a buyer for a great company.
6) Melissa will finish her school and get the perfect position and by the end of the school year will be looking at her first opportunity to move into administration.
7) Annie will pick her High School (not the one anyone thinks) and will make A team in volleyball and basket ball.
8) Leah will get promoted and run her marathon, but be quick about it, a new roommate for G is waiting.
9) Paul will close a huge deal that will create new opportunities and call him to make a tough decision.
10) Grace will walk and say her first word. Unfortunately for all of you the word will be "Beaux". She will also prove to be lefthanded.
11) Dad's handicap will soar to 18 but end at a salty 10 by the end of the year.

These predictions are made for fun and not meant to be used for betting purposes.


I love you all more today than yesterday, DAD

Time to Play 'Where's the Doc?'

Way to go POP's. Making us proud.

* You can also find him on every Sportcenter replay of the winning field goal!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL!

Well I was going to post an e-card onto this thing but after failing to find one that isn't beyond annoying or that I don't have to pay for, it looks like you'll have to settle for a standard message wishing you a happy birthday. I'm sure the boys at Buildertrend observe a day off in honor of MLK so you probably are having a pretty good day so far, so Happy Birthday bro.

As for me - I'm off to go try to help mom eat chocolate again. Lord knows what is going to happen if I don't get a job before the Valentines day chocolates start coming out.

And I suggest everyone learn this song before February 4th.

Can't we just all get along?

Everyone seems so angry, why do we dig at one another instead of building each other up? We are family, we need to support each other. I hope everyone is well and each of you is having a fabulous Friday. Just remember, reach for the stars and never let anyone tell you that you can't.

I love you all today more than yesterday, Dad
p.s. throw a spell checker at your blob before you post.

Where in the world is....Tim and Katie

As the captain of this ill-fated ship, it is my duty, nay...my privelage, to propose the question....Where the hell is Tim and Katie Wurth.

For that matter, let me throw a few more names into the ring of slackers.....Annie Wurth and a surprise to me and all who know the family, our own Mother, Patrice.

People, People, People are you telling me that Nick W. and Mark G. ( the blogger addict) are the only two people that can spare a few minutes of their day. We are not talking well thought out prose or narratives here, [evidence of that is in every one of Melissa's postings] ..... we would just like to know how your day is and what is going on in your perspective lives.

For Example:

Annie- ' Oh my god, today, i got on the computer and IM was totally not working...I was so pissed, High School Musical, The Cheetah Girls and Hannah Montanna couldn't even cheer me up!'

Tim- ' Sorry guys, I've been soooooo busy snuggling. Before you become an avid 'snuggler', you don't really relize the time and effort a good snuggle takes! but thank god I have a dedicated partner!

Mom- ' I'm just pissed my husband keeps going to college basketball and pro football games without inviting me... seriously, that's the only reason i haven't been posting, well that and i am busy doing the lion's share of the work at home and the office!' [ nothing personal dad. just a good 'ol fashion ball bustin']

Katie- 'Blog, what Blog? Can i have a chardonay while I do this blog thing? What, just because I want a chardonnay, I all of the sudden have a problem?!? So I partake in the occasional(nightly) chardonnay----what of it?'

- Well, that's enough of me stirring up the pot for one afternoon. Thanks for coming out.

Paul W.

Someone's cranky....

Geeze Nick, just a friendly argument bud, way to blow it out of proportion. If it is so important to you, we can just say you're right and let you win this one. OK? Feeling better now?
(see how I did that?)

Now to the big news of the day. Due to his friend-making ability and general good-guy magnatism, your Dad (that's me) is going to San Diego this Sunday to roam the sidelines of the Chargers v. Patriot's game. Yes that's San Diego and sidelines. I won't go into the details except to say sidelines and NFL playoff game. Oh, and AH-WOOOOOOO, AH-HOOOOOO.


I love you all more today than yesterday, DAD

And Because I Care

Ding Fries are Doooooooooooooooooone

I Can Cut and Paste TOO!!!

For those of you who are wondering why it looks as though someone has been spamming this otherwise quaint family blog, allow me to explain. Your father (in-law, or husband), refuses to believe that his lifelong belief that Chicago's nickname "the Windy City" is based on anything other than (GASP!) the fact that wind blows through the big buildings downtown - a phenomenon that I'm sure is only confined to large cities on the southwest border of Lake Michigan. In his reluctance to accept that he is wrong in the face of clear evidence (read the comments people), he has now decided to cut and paste gibberish that may or may not prove his point. Frankly I don't have time to sort through it all. But since I am from the same blood as him, I am remiss to admit that I too cannot refrain from this digital pissing contest so allow me to show that I too can do the following:

• Google any combination of "windy city, origin, chicago nickname"
• Find a website that supports me
• Push ctrl+A, ctrl+C, come to this blog, create post and then hit ctrl+V

And here is my result. From a website of THE CHICAGO FREAKING PUBLIC LIBRARY (look for the bold one sentence answer that has yet to be refuted)

Chicago Nicknames
Over the years a number of nicknames have been applied to Chicago.
Below are some of the nicknames collected from various sources by librarians of the Municipal Reference Collection:
Chicago, Pride of the Rustbelt
City in a Garden
City of the Big Shoulders
Gem of the Prairie
Hog Butcher to the World
"I Will" City
Packingtown
Second City
Windy City
Probably the two most common nicknames have been "Second City" and "Windy City." The "Second City" name comes from Chicago's historical position as America's second largest city.
The origin of the "Windy City" nickname is a bit more obscure.

It is thought to be based not on the wind velocity, but on loud and windy boosterism.

A Chicago Daily News article from Sept. 22, 1969 gives this origin:
Blame it on John Stephan Wright and William (Deacon) Bross, two local boosters (windbags, some might say), who went up and down the East Coast yelling about the wonders of Chicago, according to Daily News library clippings.... Because of their loud boasts of the virtues of the city, Chicago was dubbed the "Windy City" after its "windy" citizenry in the 1850s, according to stories.
There are a number of examples of the "Windy City" nickname being used in newspaper headlines by the mid 1880s.
Examples include:
"Built in Fourteen Days, Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp Outdone in the Windy City" from the June 18, 1887 issue of the Brooklyn Eagle."From the Windy City—Judge Foote's Civil Rights (!) Decision" from the Sept. 19, 1885 Cleveland Gazette.
Later, Chicago and New York were competing to hold the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. A widely repeated story is that Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, wrote an editorial advising against the "nonsensical claims of that windy city. Its people could not hold a world's fair even if they won it." This editorial is widely credited with popularizing the "Windy City" nickname.
As of yet, nobody has located the original editorial, and there is some doubt if Dana actually used the phrase "Windy City," but there is evidence that the world fair quest heightened awareness of the nickname. See the following snippet from the Washington Post, May 11, 1893, pg. 1:
Some of us thought Washington was the place for the Fair, and even New York had backers, but a wiser providence chose the Midway Marvel of the West, and she is going in to break the world's record from the start. Disappointed rivals may call her the Windy City, but what race was ever won without Wind? Wind is what we want....
The Washington Post and other papers also began to use the "Windy City" nickname on a much more regular basis during the 1890s.
Sources:Municipal Reference Collection Reference Files untitled question and answer sections from the Chicago-Sun, June 8, 1970, and Chicago Daily News, Sep. 22, 1969."Windy City" from the Encylopedia of Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 2004."Where did it come from? ; Did New York Sun editor Charles A. Dana coin the phrase, or is that legend just full of hot air?" Chicago Tribune, Dec 7, 2004."

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Now that that is out of the system, hopefully we can all move on. I've decided to try and post on here weekly with updates on Chicago happenings and various other tidbits from the City of Big Shoulders (1. yes there is more than one nickname for Chicago, 2. I am 100% on the origins of this one so leave it alone).

As of yet, I don't really have anything interseting to report but hopefully I can stir something up by weeks end. In the mean time, I leave you to ponder the following:

Would Helen Mirren have a career if England never had a queen?


EDIT: I am also sending home the second season of the Wire along with a DVD that contains the data files of most of my itunes music which should also be Annie safe. Most everyone should be able to find a bunch of songs they like, I think there are around 600 songs. Also the DVD has the picture files for the DVD I made, in case anyone should want them for posterity or posting embarrasing pictures on the blog.

idea for a book

Let me begin by recognizing that I have been blogging too much today. In my own defense, half my patients canceled today and I got my files done early and paid my bills this a.m. so here I am.

Here is my idea. A family book, multiple contributors with multiple contributions. The theme of the book is food as it relates to our/the family. The title of the book could be "Food of Life" following a family through their lifetime by showing the evolution of the food they eat. Individual stories would try to fit the theme and enter the book's framework at apropriate intervals. Now that I read in print it sounds kind of silly, but let's see what everyone thinks.

dad

Learn something every day

New word for the day: Plutoed
as in, Don't argue with dad, He will pluto you.


ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Pluto is finally getting some respect - not from astronomers, but from wordsmiths.
"Plutoed" was chosen 2006's Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society at its annual meeting Friday.
To "pluto" is "to demote or devalue someone or something," much like what happened to the former planet last year when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto didn't meet its definition of a planet.
"Our members believe the great emotional reaction of the public to the demotion of Pluto shows the importance of Pluto as a name," said society president Cleveland Evans. "We may no longer believe in the Roman god Pluto, but we still have a sense of personal connection with the former planet."
"Plutoed" won in a runoff against "climate canary," defined as "an organism or species whose poor health or declining numbers hint at a larger environmental catastrophe on the horizon."
Other words considered: murse (man's purse), flog (a fake blog that promotes products) and macaca (an American citizen treated as an alien).
Republican former Sen. George Allen was ahead in his re-election campaign when he said "macaca," which some regard as a racial slur, and "welcome to America" in referring to a U.S.-born man of Indian descent who was volunteering for Allen's opponent. Allen lost to Democrat Jim Webb.
The 117-year-old American Dialect Society comprises linguists, grammarians, historians and independent scholars, among others. Members conduct the vote for fun and not in an official capacity to induct words into the English language.
The society chose "truthiness" as its top word last year. The word is credited to Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, who defined it as "truth that comes from the gut, not books."
Last month, an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster declared "truthiness" the word of the year for 2006.

More proof, endless sources,

You never learn! Please do make me keep proving the wrongness of you. You must see the futility in this continued humiliation. I love my children and hate to prove them wrong. But bidness is bidness.

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WINDY CITY
[Q] From John Branch: “I’ve heard three explanations for the term Windy City as an epithet for Chicago, Illinois: the common assumption that it refers to the winds gusting through the city (understandable to anyone who’s been there); the boasting of Chicagoans to the rest of America about the glories of their rebuilt city after the Great Fire; and the blustering of Chicago politicians to the city’s inhabitants. My guess is that the first could easily be invention after the fact, while the last is too local to account for the term’s familiarity elsewhere. What do your sources tell you?”
[A] It is indeed often said that the word windy in the name refers to the long-winded and boastful speech of Chicago politicians.
The story you will commonly find is that it dates to shortly before the great World’s Columbian Exhibition of 1893. Chicago was putting forward its claim with great verve and bombast. This really got up the nose of people in New York, which was competing with Chicago to host the exhibition. Animosity became so bad that Charles A Dana, editor of the New York Sun, wrote an editorial telling New Yorkers to pay no attention to the “nonsensical claims of that windy city. Its people could not hold a world’s fair even if they won it”. The history books tell us that Chicago did win it and did hold it (and even made a profit from it). Books also tell us that the nickname of Windy City dates from that editorial.
This story is wrong. There are several recorded instances of Chicago being called the Windy City before Mr Dana put his pen to paper. That we now have what looks like the real story is owed, as so often with American expressions, to Barry Popik, part-time parking judge and expert amateur word sleuth.
For example, he found this in the Chicago Tribune for 11 September 1886: “The name of ‘Windy City,’ which is sometimes used by village papers in New York and Michigan to designate Chicago, is intended as a tribute to the refreshing lake breezes of the great summer resort of the West, but is an awkward and rather ill-chosen expression and is doubtless misunderstood”.
It has only recently been discovered that the term appears even earlier, in a headline on the front page of the Cleveland Gazette for 19 September 1885, reporting several items of news from Chicago, particularly a judicial decision: “From the Windy City: Judge Foote’s Civil Right decision”. For the nickname to be well enough known in Cleveland that it appeared in a headline without explanation indicates that it was by 1885 getting to be an established term.
Mr Popik has suggested that the name actually originated in a scheme by the Chicago Tribune about that date to promote the city as a summer resort, using the cool breeze off the lake as the basis of its attraction. Before then, Chicago was usually nicknamed Garden City (its Latin motto was and is Urbs in Horto, “city in a garden”). There seems to have been a shift from the old name to the new in the middle 1880s.
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There is more where that comes from kids.

XXXOOO

dad

A minute response to all existing post

(Clap...Clap...Clap...) Bravo! Wow! I love it... Funny, Entertaining and even Educational! I think this was such a wonderful idea... I give credit to both Mark and Paul, one for the idea and one for the implementation!

I must say it is difficult for me to check this everyday, just b/c it is block at work, and after spending 8 hours staring at a computer screen the last thing I want to do is come home and do the same thing... But after these last few entries I just might try to check it a little more often!

And so for my 'minute' response, I'd just like to say... I gota go!

FYI:

THIS IS THE WIKIPEDIA ENTRY EXPLAINING THE CHICAGO NICKNAME OF "WINDY CITY" , BITE ME
B****ES.

[edit] Weather
Geographic conditions in the area (e.g., proximity to Lake Michigan, local prevailing winds, etc.) make Chicago a naturally windy area. Another contributing factor is how the city was rebuilt after the Great Chicago Fire. With a clean slate, planners modeled new streets on the grid system. In high density areas, such as the Loop, man-made wind tunnels are created on high windy days as there are even "columns and rows" for wind to travel down and pick up speed.
This "windy" explanation is from the Freeborn County Standard of Albert Lea, Minnesota, November 20, 1892 (digitized citation available on Newspaperarchive.com}:
Chicago has been called the “windy” city, the term being used metaphorically to make out that Chicagoans were braggarts. The city is losing this reputation, for the reason that as people got acquainted with it they found most of her claims to be backed up by facts. As usual, people go to extremes in this thing also, and one can tell a stranger almost anything about Chicago to-day and feel that he believes it implicitly.
But in another sense Chicago is actually earning the title of the “windy” city. It is one of the effects of the tall buildings which engineers and architects apparently did not foresee that the wind is sucked down into the streets. Walk past the Masonic Temple or the Auditorium any day even though it may be perfectly calm elsewhere, and you will meet with a lively breeze at the base of the building that will compel you to put your hand to your hat.
Chicago had long billed itself as an ideal summer resort because of its cool lake breeze. The Boston Globe of July 8, 1873 pointed this out: "A few years ago, Chicago advertised itself as a summer resort, on the strength of the lake breezes which so nicely tempered the mid-summer heats." The Chicago Tribune of June 14, 1876 discussed "Chicago as a Summer Resort" at length, proudly declaring that "the people of this city are enjoying cool breezes, refreshing rains, green fields, a grateful sun, and balmy air—winds from the north and east tempered by the coolness of the Lake, and from the south and west, bearing to us frequent hints of the grass, flowers, wheat and corn of the prairies."
The February 4, 1873 The Philadelphia Inquirer called Chicago "the great city of winds and fires."[1]

Pleah, Leapaul, Paulea,

What combo-name does the rumor mill call you guys?

Keep on working on the life style changes, never give up, never surrender.

The only way I can defeat five year younger me is cheat.

That is all the stream of consciousness you get today.

Dad

"It's a New Day, it's a New Year....

"It's a New Day, it's a New Year.... and the Paul and Leah Wurth family are making some changes.

Yes, Yes the rumor mills and tabloids are true..Leah and I are embarking on a journey to get FIT. This is not just a some publicity stunt or empty promise here...we are committed, even focused if you will. We are not only getting our bodies fit, we are going to do a little maintenance on the soul as well. Yes I will be spending less time in front of the tube and more time with a good book and a glass of wine.

These are our resolutions, not for this year, but for life.

OK...Most of that was bullshit. We tried this 'Sonoma Diet' thing but after the first night we were dining on some deep friend crab-rangoons, mongolian beef and sweet and sour pork. And as for less TV, well, who are we kidding, there is just to much good tv coming up.....Sopranos, Extras, Rome, new Apprentice, Grey's Anatomy, the list goes on and on.

But we are going to make a conscience effort to eat a little healthier and possibly do a little Yuppie Running ( cool looking running shoes and outfits, matching IPODS and of course the hip running stroller...maybe even a ear piece cell phone or two)

*side note* I wonder how many people think that if they would have come across the person they are now, five years ago....the person they were five years ago would have kicked their ass.......maybe that's just me.

Anyways I have written enough, done my part as adminastrator of this hodgepodge forum of family issues and inner thoughts.

im out.
Paul ( the guy with the really cute baby)

People, People, People

Use it or Lose it, how am I the only one on here since the first of the year? Where is everyone?
Specifically, where are Katie and Tim. We need to get this thing rolling. Come On People.

Anyway, I have several 2007 resolutions. I have already broken two of mine but will endeavor to continue to try.

1. No more "F" word. (broken)
2. Walk every day. (broken)
3. Play more golf.
4. Learn to play piano.
5. Upgrade clinic decore.


We will see how the rest of these go. I'm pretty sure my best shot is #3.

Looking forward to a short week this week. I think I am actually going crazy. Mom has asked me about a patient she said I saw last Fri., I seriously can't remember this woman.

This could be bad. I hope everyone is having a good week. Go Irish!


Dad