For you avid followers of the Tavern Tour with whom I haven't already spoken, the two locales scheduled for today - Trim B's and Illusions - are being postponed until July 28. The reason for this change is that I will be in Chicago Monday night to see Blur. That's right, Blur! Molly called me Saturday and mentioned that Blur is playing tonight in Chicago, so I'm meeting up with her in Milwaukee Monday afternoon, and then we'll go down to the show together. After the show, I'm hoping to meet up with Erik, whom I haven't seen since New Year's, before heading back to Milwaukee to crash at Molly's. I'll head back to Appleton on Tuesday in plenty of time to go to Jade Tuesday evening.

You know it's coming: work-related banter. Yes, I'm finally trained on the jetbridge. Let's see... Tuesday night I left Dave and Corey for a while at Old Bavarian to head to work and have Jen train me before returning to OB. Jen had me practice a couple times docking with planes Thursday afternoon. Then Friday morning I called Harry and he had me come in early so I could dock a couple in his presence before signing me off. Yay! In more work-related stories, Corey and I had a nice little experience in the PM crew's first night of going to only 2 closers. Not only was our the plane carrying our late flight a complete and utter dump when we had to go about cleaning it, but there was one hell of a mess from vomit. According to the flight attendant, the girl did while the plane was first taxiing from the gate to the runway in Minneapolis, meaning she had to put up with the mess and the other passengers had to put up with the smell the entire 45-minute flight. The scene was like something out of The Exorcist - I swear the woman's head must have spun around as she vomited because it was just everywhere. With only two of us cleaning such a messy plane, it was 1 o'clock before we finished. After finishing up the work inside, I barely had time to make last call at Jekyll's.

I was not-so-pleasantly awoken Sunday morning by the sound of pounding as the roofers set to work replacing the shingles on my parents' house. They started work about 8 o'clock, but I think they got it all done now in just one day (it was too dark out when I returned home tonight to see).

What's with the Twins? Losers of 8 straight games - and 22 of their last 28 - going into the All Star break, one is left wondering where the questions even begin. They've played so poorly that they've now dropped all the way down to 3rd in the division - 7.5 games behind 1st place Kansas City and only 3.5 games ahead of 4th place Cleveland - and aren't showing any signs of a rebound. I know the starting pitching has been poor this season, but that's just a starting point. That doesn't even begin to include problems like the lack of any offensive spark or the fact that while not poor, the team defense hasn't saved them like it has in years past. I also know the team's stance on making trades, but sometimes you have to sacrifice some prospects for a player who is going to make an impact now. And speaking of the Twins, how does Torii Hunter keep getting passed over for a spot on the AL All Star team? I know his offensive numbers are less than spectacular this year, but that doesn't change the fact that he was 4th in fan voting. Isn't the All Star game about the fans? Don't the fans get to see who they want to see? Other than the fact that the game ended in a tie, name one single solitary play from last year's All Star game other than Hunter stealing a home run from Barry Bonds. Can't do it, can you? Fans want to see that stuff! C'mon Mike Sciocia, why couldn't you have put Hunter in as a replacement for - and nothing against Mags - Maglio Ordonez? Who, other than maybe a ChiSox fan, gives a damn about seeing him play in the All Star game?

I know there were other things I wanted to write about, but I've already forgotten them since I started writing. It doesn't matter much, for I should be getting to bed soon anyway. I need to get up at a reasonable hour to head down to Chicago. Night y'all.