My absolute favorite part of the entire Frankfort Fall Festival: the Waterballoon War. Darryl had never been before, so he, Liz and I all went over to the perimeter, near the official “end” of the parade. In talking to various folks nearnby, we got conflicting reports. Some said the rivalry between the North Side and…
Prior to the start, Tricia and Darryl got dressed to the nines (they were going to be marching with the other veterans, at the head of the parade). Another photo session (they’re standing next to the tree that was planted for Audrey. Veterans, leading the front of the parade. An older military jeep. The woman…
The most recent Friday Collective Mixtape is up and available for download. This week’s theme, in honor of Labor Day is… you guessed it: Labor.
Continuing our tradition of surprising Deb on her birthday, all of us at work snuck into the kitchen to sing “Happy Birthday.” Deb, making a wish (and feeling well enough that she doesn’t need a proxy). Each year, it gets a little harder to find room for everyone. Our little company is getting to be…
Liz and I went over to Allison’s place yesterday, for a few rounds of Pictionary. Little did we know that, in addition to the games, there was also a large “Prize Bag” for all the winners. For example: A “Officially Licensed” Tupac shot glass. As one of my prizes, I was lucky enough to get…
Saw this on the way in to work the other day, and it had me chuckling nonstop. I kept on creating imaginary captions the whole ride in. Here are a few I came up with: “Just because it fits… it doesn’t mean it’s right.” “What were those dimensions again?” “We don’t have a big budget….
Al Dente is a fantastic student graduation project by three incredibly talented gents. Just lovely. [via]
Drug dealers could get homeless people to work as dealers for them. Everyone’s used to seeing homeless people accept money, so this wouldn’t really raise any eyebrows. Add in a handshake after the money exchange where you could “palm” the goods, and it’s a done deal.
Atop all “revolving door” entryways, we should install a device that captures the energy generated each day. Thinking about downtown Chicago alone, the daily motion/energy created would be of some small significance, I have to imagine. While I doubt this would generate enough power to, say, light an entire skyscraper… it might be enough to…
For anyone who might be interested, the Frankfort Fall Festival is this weekend. I realize it’s a bit of a trek for those in Chicago (it’s about 45 minutes away), but there’s a particular event at the Festival that may be of interest to you… particularly you shutterbugs out there. At the conclusion of the…
Liz and I got a call from her mom on Saturday, asking if we could come down to Frankfort to help paint an “Information Booth” that Bob was building. The booth is slated to be used for the upcoming Frankfort Fall Festival (next weekend). On arriving, we found the driveway covered with tarps and workhorses….
Today, Liz went to a baby shower for her new niece Audrey. The past few weeks, Liz has been hard at work planning both her gift as well as the cake/treats she was going to make for the event. The gift: a baby blanket. And all hand-made, start to finish. Closeup of one of the…
A few weeks ago, I joined the Friday Collective Mixtape at the office. It works like this: each week there’s a new theme that gets voted on, and participants all include a song they think matches well to that theme. Part of the goal of the mixtape is to discover new music. But another part…
I mentioned Erik Mongrain a while back on here, and last week I was browsing around my library looking for a few instrumental tracks. Since my original post, it looks like he’s re-done his site a few times. The old links I have to his videos are all broken, and since I found a few…
Another installment of the love story between Doki and Nabi. And TOTALLY not what I was expecting. Visit sambakza.net, then click “English,” then click “amalloc.” A lot of steps I know, but trust me here… it’s so worth it. I first posted about SamBakZa back in 2005, and I’m just enamored with the characters, and…