Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

I think I'm going to see Eastern Promises today.

is anything fun happening tonight?

man, wish I had checked this yesterday as I was totally at the Om/Circle show. sorry I missed you peeps. Circle is great, and played a great show, although it's funny because it was definitely a metal audience, so most people probably just assumed Circle always plays metal, which is definitely not the case. also there was this one dude up in the front who was flailing around during their set, a little too drunk probably, and he accidentally hit this other guy in the face, and then THAT guy totally put the drunk dude in a choke hold, and then the drunk dude's friend, who was this tiny woman, grabbed the choke hold guy by the hair. that was kind of crazy, but it sorted itself out and the friends of the drunk guy calmed him down.

anyway, Shana and I are going to see Bill Callahan (Smog) and Sir Richard Bishop at Lakeshore tonight. be there!

I've decided to go back to NC at the end of October. The last time I was there was December of 2004. This is going to suck.

come to the smog show, you said you wanted to!

Okay, buy my ticket.

sorry bro. already buying too many tickets these days.

I'll ponder it.

It was packed outside the LST last night.

yeah I was assured that tonight would not sell out though. but i bet parking will be awful

Parking will be impossible, I wouldn't even attempt to drive. There is a 24 hour garage a little up Broadway, but it ain't cheap.

hmm, I guess I could take the bus to the red line again. but I wanted to go to a birthday party in Logan Square later. seems like driving would be the easiest way to get to all the points.

Your best bet if driving will probably be to park further west, by ashland maybe?

that's pretty far west!

oh ffs what a morning. I have been to the Apple store and back in order to do something that took 5 minutes. Wiping the drive went great, but disc 2 of the installtion software was messed up. Not scratched or anything, just a bad burn. So it was either wait 2 weeks for Apple to send me another disc, or put my ass and my computer in a cab down to Mich Ave.

Well, at least I couldn't have picked a prettier day to be angry. :)

Advice for the young at heart: soon your computer will be dead. Or a dinosaur. And at that point, getting all your important stuff off it will be a giant pain in the butt. Two very simple things you can do to ease the pain:

1) use gmail. Don't keep all your email on your own machine, that's madness. Gmail is better than most POP mails apps, and more searchable. I guess yahoo or hotmail or something will also do in a pinch. Point is, let someone else store and back up your email, someone who will will do it far more reliably than you will.

2) use del.icio.us. You never know how much you miss those hundreds of stupid bookmarks until they're gone.

It's amazing how much those two things alone can take the sting out of losing a computer. It's the web. It's the future. It's where it's all happening. BELIEVE.

Don't be the dude who has his laptop stolen and posts to Craigslist begging, "My whole life was on that machine!" No it wasn't, dude.

3) Daily backups to an external drive
4) Secondary backup of important documents to Box.net

Wow, I hate bunting in baseball.

Bunting only looks pussified.

Not that it ever makes the highlight reel or anything.

I also hate the phrase "manufacturing runs."

sounds like eating a bag of prunes.

and the phrase "Ryan Dempster."

1 out away baby!

high heat!

redepmtion is dempster!

It matters not, he is always on the cusp of a total collapse.

The time has come to finally do dishes.

http://www.indiacurrents.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=979afe97f0cf1e7165410528ba125f11

I keep running into this women since I seem to live between her and her boyfriend.

I've been sitting here refreshing a broken ilx for the last 2 hours.

SAYJAL!

I almost didn't click the link but I realized it said "india current" and not "indie."

I still haven't seen her commercial.

I saw it one time, and every time a S0nic logo shows up on the screen I wonder if I'm seeing it again.

I WANT TO SEE IT.

She refuses to put it on Youtube.

I only watch DVR, so I've probably skipped over it.

Long day, but I did have a fancy business dinner at Trattoria No. 11 which was tasty tasty.

Wait. 11? Where is that? Are you sure you don't mean 10?

Argh! I can't remember my oink USERNAME! I hate it when a site doesn't provide you with the ability to recover a username!

Hmmm. I need spray paint. Do I really want to go to a SUBURB for spray paint???

A girl I work with at Catch found a free can of spray paint on Craigslist, so one night after work (9PM) she went to the near South side and picked up her paint.

what do you need spraypaint for? isn't jaymc in michigan this weekend? could he get you some?

Yeah No. 10, I knew I was getting the number wrong. That's the place with the happy hour food, isn't it? I'd go back there.

OHOH! I am totally going to call John and get him to pick up some spray paint!

My toaster oven is "chrome" and the top of it is rusty. It looks gross, so I was going to get some high-heat BBQ spray paint and save myself the cost of a new toaster oven.

The toaster oven is the most completely useful appliance I've ever owned. It's the only way to effectively and efficiently revive french fries.

Eric- what did you eat? I hear the ossobuco is the best thing on the menu.

If you are into veal.

I bought a new pizza pie cutter since our old one was rusty.

I could of just spray painted it.

we had a good day culinarily yesterday. went up to argyle to a chinese/european bakery for croissants and cakes, and then went to a grocery store up there to get some sauces and things we can't find in whole foods. then to a middle eastern deli by the hopleaf and got a ton of food and took it for a picnic in the botanic gardens. it was so good! some kind of artichoke and parmesan thing with garlic...yum.

I am in Delaware. Jeff come on the chat and say hello to your wiferooni!

Or Jesse come on the chat. Somebody come talk to me!