My lunch today is a sandwich I made for yesterday and didn’t eat, and a cup of apple sauce. I need better lunches.

I was driving to work today and I started kicking around an idea in my head: an election season mixtape. The idea came up when I was listening to yet another boring (to me) report from the Democratic National Convention. My mind drifted off to presidential election campaign songs, and from there it was a quick jump to making my own election playlist.

Last night, my wife and I watched ‘Wild Hearts Can’t be Broken.” It was pretty awful, and yet we kept watching it despite the wooden acting, horrible script and molasses-slow pacing. Why? Because we had both watched and enjoyed the movie when we were much younger. It was sentimental to us because we remember watching it at ages before we knew how to recognize bad movies.

I don’t think I ever want to see this side of Charles Barkley: http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/dan_gross/20080820_Dan_Gross_....

Among her many wonderful qualities, I must say that my loving wife is a fan of breakfast. In fact, she’s a fan of the entire “three meals a day” eating philosophy, while I’ve been content to eat only once a day for several years now.

Well, that has changed since our wedding last week. At least for now, anyway. For the past week, I’ve been eating a healthier diet of more than one meal a day, including breakfast. And today is the first day that I’ve eaten breakfast and then come to work with a lunch packed. It’s a new and eye-opening experience, that’s for sure.

I came back from vacation (my honeymoon) today, and I found I only had two phone messages, both of which were only hang-ups with no actual message. What I lacked in auditory messages, though, I more than made up for in e-mails. Specifically, I had way too many junk e-mails. I did the math and added up the numbers to find that I received 160 e-mails in the one week I was gone, while only 48 of those e-mails were of any actual importance to me (and I’m using importance as a broad term here).

Now that it’s out on DVD, I thought this might be the perfect time to share an anecdote about “Vantage Point.”

About 30 minutes into the movie as my fiancée and I sat in a theater with our friends, she turned to me and said something along the lines of, “Wait – the president has a double!?!”

I had to laugh because anyone who had seen the preview or any sort of advertising for the movie would know that this particular plot point is clearly spoiled before you even set foot in the theater.

Have you ever noticed that most stores under the same name – like a Target or a Wal-Mart – are pretty much all laid out the same. If you’ve been to one, you can pretty much find what you’re looking for in all of them?

Of course, there are also those stores that you visit and can’t find what you’re looking for no matter how many times you go there.

Which stores do you know how to navigate best, and which stores perplex you every time?

Now that I’m married and sharing a bed with my wife, I have an irrational fear that I might accidentally punch her in the face in the middle of the night. I toss and turn a lot while I sleep – sometimes violently.

What’s the deal with Highway 169? It’s such an unpredictable road. I’ve tried over the past several days to navigate it from the same starting point to the same destination at the same time of day, and each day the drive takes me a different length of time – sometimes shorter, sometimes longer.

I would think that a road like that would be predictable!

Which roads can you set your watch by the travel time and which roads change travel times with the wind?