Busy busy weekend. Friday night, dinner was carry out sushi from the Ecce Cafe, just down the block from me on Broadway. Good rolls, big rolls, but lots of mayo and unagi sauce. Then, a couple drinks at KK's till more of the gang showed up and we hit Smart Bar. I liked the place, it's a dancer's club, and I get to walk home afterwards. Saturday, rolled out and went to pickup. I move slow. And I've been sore ever since. After that a poker tourney where I came in 2nd on extremely lucky draws. Then a ping pong tourney or 2 at the Blanchet-Ruths. Sunday had to go outside because it was 60, but not so warm on the lake where I was sitting and trying to enjoy the sun. Then was the belated Christmas present to the Russell's: a trip to Medieval Times. Fun. And now I think life quiets down a bit.

Got my new glasses yesterday. Finished up 40 Days and 40 Nights, which will be added to my list of calendar related movies, this time for Lent. Up next in that vein is Boondock Saints for St. Patty's Day. But up next in the collection is 100 Girls. Managed to get to bed before 11pm last night. Impressive feat for me. And I got in to the diner this morning. New month and all I guess. Dinner with Leah tonight.

Leah and I are back together. Dinner at Sai was good last night, as was figuring stuff out. It's all good. Dinner tonight at Angelina's, celebrating our return and using the 25% locals' discount. Gonna try and sneak a run in there, maybe, if it isn't raining by the time I get home. Wore my new glasses today, trying to get used to them. Starting to. Made my first big cafepress order yesterday, and hopefully will get it all before Florida in a week. Crazy.

Running was good last night. Movement is good. I didn't even get rained on at all. Made it to bed at a really decent hour, 10:30pm. A good 8 hours. Still wanted to stay in bed though. I love Safari's Open in Tabs bookmark menu command. So instead of what I used to do, which was type them all in, to using the bookmarks individually, I get to open them all up in tabs all at once and then close each one as I read them. Very nice, very easy. New web page I'm reading, engadget, by the creative force behind gizmodo. Guess I'll read both.

I'm playing Spring League with Leah. Hoping to finally get around to updating the java based spring league app tonight, along with documentation finally. Got to bed really early, earliest in a long time, around 9:30pm. If it's nice out, gonna try and play some pickup tomorrow, then Starsky & Hutch, then a friend's place for dinner. Laundry on Sunday along with Alias HD.

I got a run in Friday night, some exercise. A relatively early night as well. Saturday, no pickup, but brunch/lunch at Leo's Lunchroom and Starsky and Hutch. Dinner at KK's, then another quiet night in with lots of sleep. Sunday I brought Leah to Dim Sum at the Phoenix. Then groceries and laundry and dinner (Red wine and tarragon chicken) along with Alias, which is getting a little disappointing. It's slightly tempting to just wait for the DVD of the season and plow through those in September, than watch the episodes now. What was up with the quantity of repeated scenes, even if some of it, little of it, was from different points of view? Cafepress stuff came on Friday. All the goods look great. The Kaze mousepad looks especially fabulous, as did the other panda mug.

Not much going on. My cable seems back up and running after some issues last week or so. For some reason I had to turn the VCR on to get it to work, go figure. Watched some Monster Garage where they turned a Peterbilt engine into a trike. Impressive. Some new Sony Ericsson phones were announced yesterday. The S700 looks pretty sweet. Oh, current reading is the Illuminatus Trilogy when I have my backpack and the Day of the Jackal when I've got my man bag.

So this whole blog company thing? Crazy. Why can't I get paid for this site? Well, because I'm not famous. Oh, never mind that this site doesn't provide any sort of service or give any kind of information that people would be willing to pay for. But still, from online diaries to web sites that go for 3.5 - 4 million dollars. Crazy. I'm not selling this anytime soon, so back to the updates. Green Tea last night. Good, and a couple different rolls. Tried to get a USB 2.0 Hard Drive working with Elisa's computer, but no luck. Gotta pack tonight, leaving for West Palm tomorrow night. Coming back bright and early straight into work on Monday. Unsure if I'll be updating at all over the weekend.

Sitting at gate A2, Midway Airport, about an hour before boarding. Gotta love T-Mobile and unlimited data plans. Anyway, congrats to Leo and Stacy on "Peanut". Dinner was fried chicken from Jewel, after getting smiley cookies from the corner convenience store and a Slurpie from 7-11, from which I won my first iTunes song via the Pepsi promotion. That's pretty cool. Vacuumed. Put clothes away. Put on 100 Women. Ripped some new music, John Wesley Harding's Adam's Apple and Garden of Eden EP, and Sting's Ten Summoner's Tales. I also got Snow Crash, so that's on the list. Packed, ironed some clothes to pack. Oh, went shopping after work for some new board shorts at Urban Outfitters up in e-town. Worked a bit today. Got stuff done. Exchanged the board shorts for a slightly bigger size (winter weight). Oh, only takes about 1 1/2 hours from Evanston to Midway via "el". And the shoes are off already, the sandals are on, and Florida is 4 hours away.

Back from the PBI (West Palm Beach) from a long weekend of beach time. It's so nice down there. SBR '04 Score! A quick couple shout outs to the Inker/Double Double for putting this together, and the Kindreds for the food, the hospitality, and the ChuckTown, Holler. Good times, good times. The recap, mostly broken down by meals: thursday fly in, mad car Avis rentals, stop at Steak and Shake for a split shake with fudge, breakfast at Sonny's at the Days Inn, a day on the beach with beer friz and ocean time, no e.coli this time. Friday night dinner at a cuban joint, quite good, then caps, music off a powerbook, the playing on Saturday. Got used to the sand, won all our games, stupid matches games to 7-7-5 if necessary, no individual games lost, even beat Sunburnt. Saturday night food at a local bar/tavern, more caps, Sunday breakfast and play, get to Semis and lose to other Miami team, who loses to Sunburnt in the finals. Ick. Cookies and Cream milkshake and toasted coconut on a cake cone for a snack. Trip up to Ft. Lauderdale to the Kindred's for pasta, meatballs, and cake. Relaxing on the intercoastal waterway, Oh Hell, and a sketchy Ramada. Early flight, last purple line express, and here I am at work. Water's nice. Board shorts are nicer. Sleep would be good. GPRS slow but usable, even in Florida. Missed Alias. But good times. Holler.

So I guess the groundhog really did see his shadow. And I missed a day. Sue me. Not too much going on. Watched the end of Se7en last night with Leah, dinner courtesy of my Mom, and some discussions. Headed to San Fran for a long weekend in April. Watching last week's Alias tonight. That's all.

Java's fun. Spring League Draft coming up soon. Headed out to Woodstock afterwards. Naniwa tomorrow night. Maybe some sort of entertainment activity afterward. Finally watched last week's Alias. Entertaining. Played some Ping Pong. Went to Piece. Lunch yesterday with Leah and Remy at Joy Yee's. Good stuff.

Ah, late night early morning programming. Bread and butter. Last minute fixes updates and changes. Love it. And this is what I do for fun. Spring League Draft App rolling out tomorrow. Should be good. Backgrounded my way through Boondock Saints, 2001, Adventures in Babysitting. Sleep would be good. Looking forward to sushi. NU's spring break. It's sunny. And then again the weather's supposed to get nasty on Sunday. I don't think things are gonna quiet down for a while.

Draft went okay. A couple of hangups, but I've already started making changes for next year. Hopefully I'll fix the problems now, as opposed to waiting until the Thursday before the draft to fix them next year. Woodstock was good, nice and relaxing. Good bad food though, fried chicken, fried shrimp, fried bananas and donuts. Gotta find something healthy to eat for a couple days. Got some pictures from Sally from SBR, so I'll try and get that gallery up sometime soon. Alias was good last night. Oh, did some shopping with Leah yesterday on the way back in to the city. Got myself some new brown shoes for work and stuff. Finally. I also cleaned out my trunk, well, organized it anyway. Got another ultimate related web project to work on. Only other big plans for the week is meeting and having dinner with Leah's parents on Thursday.

Still need to catch up on sleep. Running on the bare minimum, actually, looking historically, I'm running on plenty of sleep, so never mind. Having issues with converting to an Alphabetic Base from Decimal. Warm today. Sunny. Nice. Cooking tonight, might try taking the easy way out and getting premarinated stuff from Whole Foods. Feels like cheating. Laundry tonight as well.

Getting ready to cook food from Whole Foods is genius. It's great. It's easy. And, most important, it's good. The Mango Teriyaki Salmon Filets are great. Mangos are good too. Leah and I still have so many socks that are unpaired. Absurd amount of socks. Double digits even. Stupid sock monsters. Sai tomorrow night, hopefully some more sushi on Friday night before the Great Big Sea show, first spring league game on Saturday.

Yeah, so I'll update. No dinner with the Gesoffs last night, my first meeting of the parents will have to wait for another time. Instead had a nice dinner at Via Emilia. Wednesday night had a nice quiet night, dropped by Gamekeepers to say hello to Bryan and friends, fixed Leah's curtains with stitch witchery or something. Tonight headed to see Great Big Sea with a bunch of people at the Metro, probably having dinner at Addis Abeba. Tomorrow is my first spring league game. Saturday is date night. Maybe some pickup on Sunday. Did some research, figured out what Kramerica Industries is, which will make it easier to come up with a jersey design. Also found out that HDTV is supposed to get to my building sometime in April. Which is sweet. Finally.

My first time eating Ethiopian food Friday night, good stuff, even if I didn't get to have any meat. Great Big Sea does put on a good show, the crowd's energy was very infectious, even for someone like me who is completely unfamiliar with the music. Spring League Saturday was fun. Interns of Kramerica is quite funny. And we managed to squeak 1 point wins in both our games. Then some sushi at Tsunami, with a sake flight, quite good, and some much needed sleep. Sunday brought supposed pickup which ended up being boot, dinner at Joy's, starting Amelie and Alias and The Practice. Not too much on the docket for this week.

Finally put up SBR '04 pictures. They're in the gallery. In doing so I found yet another really cool iPhoto plug-in, iPhotoToGallery, which allows me to export directly to my gallery from iPhoto. It rocks. Sidetrack for powerbooks also rocks, and got updated to .8, with corner taps. Expose with a trackpad tap, control click in a corner. Hey, it's the little things. Oh, watched Monsoon Wedding last night. Very good. Reminded me a bit of the Philippines. Oh, listening to Great Big Sea, good stuff. Weather's been nice. I forgot to mention that I jammed my middle finger on the right hand at Boot the other day, it was pretty massively swelled yesterday, but gone down a bit today.

Got a whole lot colder, didn't it? Have I mentioned how good the Grey Album is (again, thanks to Akira for the link)? It's so good. I wonder if owning Jay-Z's Black Album and The Beatles' White Album makes having the Grey Album okay, at least in my ethical world? Scrubs is a funny show. Walking around after going to the bank yesterday, I couldn't decide on what to have for lunch. So many options, so many choices, I settled on a meatball sub. But there's just so many options. It's so good.