Something Pragmatic

For the next three months, my summer will consist of copious amounts of the following:

• Work - Regular (AKA - incredibly mind-numbing) work, yard work, dental work, work outs, etc.
• Ultimate - I'm practicing twice a week with Cleveland's club team, the highest level of organized disc that exists in the states. It's absolutely kicking my trash so far, but I've learned a ton and am holding my own out there. This has been by far my favorite part of summer to this point.
• Books on Tape - or CD, as it were. Seeing as my job consists of very little synaptic stimulation, I got permission from my supervisor to listen to books on tape while I work. I chill with my CD player and headphones pretty much all day, every day. Thus far I've listened to two Harry Potters: Sorceror's Stone (8 hours) and Order of the Phoenix (27 hours), Robert Ludlum's The Janson Directive (18 hours), Robert Jordan's New Spring (13 hours), about 6 hours of what I thought (mistakenly) was a mystery by Nora Roberts, and I just finished Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code (16 hours) yesterday. Next in line is another Ludlum thriller and the rest of the Harry Potters, when they are available at the library. Any suggestions?
• The NBA Playoffs - Last summer Trisha got me hooked on Smallville and I got her hooked on the playoffs. Since neither of my teams (Utah and Cleveland) will ever make the playoffs, my favorites this year are Miami in the East and Phoenix in the West. I'm pulling for both of the underdogs in the other two series (Seattle over San Antonio and Indiana over Detroit). I generally spend way too much time watching the games, listening to AM sports radio stations, and reading about them in the paper and on ESPN.com. There are two to three games every night, an NBA nirvana. How do you not watch?
• Indians Games - If I'm not watching basketball or playing frisbee, I'm listening to Tom Hamilton and my (dismal) Indians on WTAM 1100. This is one of my favorite things to do, and I've been doing it every summer for 10 years now. There's just something I love about having a game on in the background whenever I'm near a radio, much to Trisha's chagrin (she's an FM listener).
• Movies - As long as I went to the trouble to pack up and bring home my incredibly sweet speakers, we are going to make good use of them. Star Wars, LOTR, National Treasure, The Incredibles, Bourne Supremacy, anything else we can get our hands on, here I come! Again, any suggestions?

Okay, that's all I've got so far. There's more, but my wrist hurts from this stupid mouse.

stupid mouse...