Waking up in Vegas
I had the house to myself tonight so no one complained that I was up all night recording videos in front of my webcam.
Tags: Acoustic, Cover, Katy Perry, Waking up in Vegas
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Opening day of yard work season.
Ok, yard work season may have officially opened weeks ago, but not for me. I really dislike mowing my lawn. It’s a pain in the ass. A few of our neighbors spend a lot of time (and money) on their lawns. It’s frustrating for two reasons.
- My lawn sucks. There is hardly any nice grass. It’s mostly the thick blade crab grass and whatever the hell will grow in sand. The few square inches of lawn that I have where nice grass actually grows is like the Amazon rain forest. 90% of my lawn grows 0.001 inches per month and the other 10% grows like 40 feet per week. And it’s thick, like the back hair of every shirtless idiot on COPS, so the lawn mower sometimes just stops when I am rolling over it.
- I hate mowing!!! It sucks. It’s so fricking boring. I can think of about a hundred things I’d rather be doing, like playing the guitar, working on web projects, hacking the interwebs, getting shot in the face with a crossbow, whatever.
Also, Andria wanted a fountain for mother’s day. She insisted that we pick one up this weekend, citing the fact that “there will be none left next weekend”. She is happy with it, and apparently Olive LOVES it, so… a terrific gift indeed (pats self on back).
Anyway, It was actually a nice day, and you can probably tell by my skin tone that I don’t see much of the outdoors. If any good can come from this, I guess it is that it was a light workout, hopefully staving off a myocardial infarction for now.
Tags: Fountain, Lawn, Mowing, Outside
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End of April
It has been a busy week at the hospital. Andria and Evelyn have been back with the grandmas for most of the week, so it feels I haven’t seen much of either of them in a long time. We did get to have some fun outside on Tuesday. It was a semi-warmish springlike day? Nice enough for some pictures anyway.
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Anniversary in Chicago
Tuesday, June 3rd was Andria’s and my two year anniversary. We decided to take a trip to Chicago to get away and have some fun. Andria booked a hotel room at Hotel Allegro In the theater district (Randlolph & LaSalle). It was pretty swank. They just dropped a bunch of cash redesigning all the rooms. It’s an old building, and it has this real classic charm (and smell, unfortunately). Also, it is within a few blocks of the museums and the aquarium, so that was convenient.
The weather was really nice all three days we were there so we walked everywhere. I don’t know how many miles we put on, but my dogs were barking for a few days. We got in on to town on the 3rd, around 3:30pm and spent the first afternoon rushing through exhibits at the Art Institute (they close at 5pm), but we managed to take in quite a bit.
Day 2 we hiked up to the Field Museum. We spent most of the day there. The “Evolving Planet” exhibit and “Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids” were really, really cool.
In the afternoon, we walked up to the Shedd Aquarium. It was ok, but not as cool as I remember it when I was a kid. That eveneing we grabbed some dinner at the hotel restaurant and hoofed it down to the Sears Towerobservation deck to check out the fireworks they shoot off from Navy Pier every Wednesday during the summer. It was an incredible perspective to say the least. Andria tried to snap some pics with the Nikon D40, but the backlighting caused too many reflections, and the focal area was too dark so even with a high ISO, the shutter speed was too slow to get any clear images.
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