This year has been ... interesting. I don't want to sound like some dark cloud, but here's been my year -

- My mom gets diagnosed with a form of cancer that has a 0% survival rate. (She's doing well, in radiation now.)

- My grandmother has a mild heart attack. (She's doing well, home just days later.)

- My dad lives where the eye of Hurricane Ivan passed. It's unclear now whether his house was damaged.

So I've figured it out ... the Cubs are going to win the World Series. It all balances out, right?

Figures, somehow, that the Cubs team I least enjoy watching in years will be the one that wins.