Chicago MMXII

sorry but i am going home to make pizza and eat pizza with my family then watch a movie and drink beer with sarah

my wife and son are in Michigan for the weekend, so beers after work sound pretty goddamned fantastic.

Oh man! Do it, jvc! I wish I could be there for a jvc fap!

But I have other plans.

I'm at pops right now. Will head down to the watershed at 5 pm.

I have other plans.

jesse, do you have other plans?

I'm so glad I switched my schedule to getting off work at 4:30.

Ok this place is cool. Got a seat for Jenny, jvc, and one empty. Who wants the empty seat?????

Not Jesse. He has plans.

I'll be on my way up there soon.

i'm way up here, so no way
but i'm so glad jvc is finally hanging out! it's a momentous day in chilxorlore!

i don't think i know what jeff looks like actually. perils of not participating in wdyll threads.

He's a good looking white man with a beard. IIRC he's wearing a blue shirt.

There are only 3 ppl here so far. I'm the one that is alone. And I have a big box sitting beside me.

okay

Ok more people here but I still am the only one with a box beside me.

Man please stop saying big box bc the temptation for a mean joke is growing too strong.

I was just at Macy's.

If this lag time remains steady I will be at watershed at 11:00 tonight.

I have been meaning to check out Watershed! But I'm having dinner on Devon 2nite.

Watershed is great so far.

I met jvc and he rules and you're jealous. We solidarity fist bumped like 1000 times.

We did. It was fun!

Road closings for that NATO thing - http://www.suntimes.com/news/12320074-418/nato-closures-emerge-including-kennedy-and-lake-shore-drive.html

Also LOL forever at the Sun Times trying to go to a digital paid subscription model. Maybe if you assholes hadn't laid off so many copyeditors so that reading every article is a chore (albeit at times a hilarious chore), or that more than half of your content wasn't AP wire service stuff available everywhere else for free, I'd think about it.

Actually, no I wouldn't.

It's little shit like this that makes me rmde:

At 6 p.m. Saturday, Northerly Island, formerly known as Meigs Field, will closed to vehicles and pedestrians, along with the “northern museum campus.”

Meigs Field closed and became Northerly Island almost ten years ago. We're good. We know what this place is called now. But then two paragraphs later:

Streets around the museum campus, Willis Tower and the Cultural Center will also be closed during summit weekend, apparently for special events involving the world dignitaries.

No clarifying clause for Willis Tower when half of Chicago still calls it the Sears Tower. Unless referencing Meigs Field was a subtle way to remind readers about sneaky shit Chicago mayors have done? But I don't give the Sun Times that much credit.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qHsjjY8PIdc/TUqNAqLUCMI/AAAAAAAAAmk/wEop30HNojM/s1600/abe%2Bsimpson.png

L to R: ILX, me

Looking through old flickr photos, this one came up. Look how blurry you guys were. Way to sharpen up.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/2/2324818_45f482b224.jpg

December 17th, 2004.

CDs

I know, right. It's like I was living in a dorm room.

MISTY PICNIC TIME pushed back to 3 -- please note and adjust accordingly. I choose to believe that the weather will improve.

I chose as well. Will just be cloudy, but should warm up. Just don't go swimming.

I have no other plans.

I hope you guys had fun today. I woke up with all the intentions of being there, but I got a text from my newly-engaged brother saying that he and his fiancee were going to be in the city so I went to meet up with them and offer my congrats in person. Looked like the weather ended up cooperating for the most part.

That was fun. Stupid weather got all nice later!

HAPPY BITTHFAY COURTNEY

Yeah! Happy birthday, Courtnoodle!

Speaking of stupid whether, when is your game? I hope it doesn't get rained out.

1:20

Where are rainouts announced online?

happy birthday c-noodle!

Delay continues.

...

Estimated start time 4:00. We're in the uppermost right field upper deck and the toilets are SO FAR AWAY.

Play ball

Hey look at the vegetable stew I made with the leftover grilled veggies from the picnic! They fed me for three more meals. Amazing how far things can stretch sometimes?!
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/7150688831_9d0070db59.jpg

(that ^^ was but one of the three meals)

Looks good!

Is it bad to take advantage of mother's day gift certificate discounts to buy a gift certificate for myself?

uh no

i bought myself a mother's day gift but i won't get it til mid june

Thanks for the happy birthday wishes! We ended up meeting another group of friends at the game that had better seats. When they cut off booze around the fifth inning we went back to my friend's house and drank homebrew and they got me a frozen custard pie.

i have no idea what to buy my wife for mother's day.

It was delicious.

Xpost. Your kid hasn't got a job yet?