A rather quiet and relaxing weekend mostly. Friday night got killed in ping pong by Kevin and Bryan. Lost both games on Saturday spring league, which I'm going to blame on chemistry, since it was the first time since maybe the 1st or 2nd week that we had a full team. Hung out a bit with the girls and got to watch Mean Girls. Quite funny. Then got to eat some McD's and get to bed really early and sleep lots before breakfast the next morning at Nookie's Too and mass and laundry and goat cheese and roasted pepper stuffed chicken breasts and couscous. Still could use more sleep. Alias was good, and can't believe it's 3 weeks until the finale. Long term plans fell through and I'm not going to Potlatch. There was an outside chance, but oh well.

Managed to vacuum last night. It was pretty exciting. Finished up Matrix: Reloaded and try and fit in Matrix: Revolutions sometime soon. Going to see Shade tomorrow at 7:25pm, River East 21. Scrubs season finale tonight. Got my tax return, which is pretty cool. It helps. I keep forgetting the free songs from iTunes. Whoops. Friends Series finale on Thursday. I've started looking into home theater PC's or media servers; basically I'm looking for a method to make TV seasons on DVD randomly accessible, and also be able to view easily across seasons. I think about it since it would probably be better to just flip through my DVD collection rather than flip through tv channels. So if at least the TV portion was on hard drives, and I could pick one easily to load and watch, it'd be better, I think, or at least more conducive to watching. Plus, I'm lazy. But, nothing but research.

Leah made meatloaf, garlic mashed potatoes, and broccoli last night. Quite good. Late night at work, some ironing and some wasabi peas. Weather's quite nice, if a little cool. Scrubs finale was so-so. Friends on Thursday will most likely be another letdown, I'm guessing. When was the last series/season finale that just kicked ass? Alias, maybe. That show has better midseason turns though. Dawson's Creek? Maybe. My so-called life? Can't say I've followed or remember too many other shows' season/series finale. Seinfeld wasn't anything special in my book. Anyway, I'll watch it. Got an old family doctor friends' son's wedding/reception to go to on Friday in Barrington. Kaze pickup on Sunday. I think I failed to mention that Leah got me sunglasses, Smith Vice's in Black. I went out and got a decent sunglasses case that I can attach to various bags.

I forgot to mention a while back that I noticed the Sony Store on Michigan Ave. is closed. Just like that. Too bad. I really like that block, with Apple, Nike, and Sony all having company stores there. Moving on. Shade is a really good movie, I think anyway. Very entertaining. Not a whole lot of people go to movies on a Wednesday night.

Wedding reception tonight out in Rolling Meadows. Exciting. Date night tomorrow is dinner and jazz at Green Dolphin Street. I love OpenTable. So easy. So quick. Friends was okay last night. Saddest part for me was Joey and Chandler saying goodbye. Ross and Rachel was expected, assumed even. Got MSN Messenger on my home machines which allows me to chat with co-workers if that's ever needed. If I could just figure out how to VPN into work with Mac OS X, that'd be sweet. Maybe.

Wedding was rather interesting. Old friends, sitting at the kids table. But good. Spring league went 1-1, played savage, quite the change from the previous week. Missing next week, will be in Madison for Alison's, Leah's sister, graduation. Finally meeting the fam. Green Dolphin was okay. Overrated, maybe. They did have a really cool flutist, grammy winner, who did a couple songs with the jazz triad that performed. Had a negroni and a sidecar. Kaze pickup on Sunday was windy, yet again. Then a surprise dinner at Sai, so good, and since the weather was so good, a small pina colada italian ice. So good. Finished up Matrix: Revolutions as Leah finished up some Grad school work. Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there, by the way. Going to Piece tomorrow night, Wednesday watching the Godfather and making tarts.

Sony releases their 2004 Vaio lineup. And the U50, supposedly the replacement for the U101. Well, what I'm guessing to be the replacement for the U101. A little disappointing. Getting rid of the laptop form, and turning it into a giant PDA, well, it's intriguing, a little. Display probably looks nice. But no keyboard? That's no good for me. But maybe there's another model yet to be announced, since there's a VAIO World this coming weekend. Oh well.

I didn't have a single drop of caffeinated beverage yesterday, and paid the price; a nagging headache all day. So I finished off the day with a couple of beers and pizza. Good times. PSP and Nintendo DS revealed. Sweet. Good week for tech stuff. I got Step Into Liquid on DVD yesterday and didn't know that it came with a WMV HD version of the film on the second disc. 720p. Now all I've got to do is either find someone with a 3 GHz P4 laptop with component video out or a Home Theater PC with a 128MB graphics card to hook up to my TV to see it. Or, the Bravo D3 which does WMV HD. Whenever that's supposed to come out. Weather's continuing the Chicago craziness. And Kaze steering committee meeting tonight.

Made it to the diner this morning. First time in a long time. They had new menus. It was good. Last night Mongolian BBQ. Also good. My first ride in Bryan's Miata. Also good. Not much else. Got a busy Wednesday ahead of me: grocery, precooking, watching the Godfather. Hopefully I can finish everything up. It's gonna be close. Tomorrow is a dinner for Jeff (Leah's brother and Emmy winner), Christie and Elisa. Friday is a viewing of Van Helsing, maybe some dinner, maybe some looking at a cute puppy. Busy busy week. It'll be nice to someday get some more sleep or something.

Here's what I'm gonna try and make for tonight: Portabello Mushroom Brushetta, Gnocchi Pomodoro, Roasted Vegetable Medley, Chicken Breasts with Sundried tomatoes and Shiitake Mushrooms, Poached Halibut with tomatoes and basil, Chocolate Molten Cakes and Cappuccino Tarts. Okay, looking at that, it might be a little bit of an overkill. Oh well. Not sure I'll be able to pull it all off anyway. On a relatively random note, I think I'm gonna try and switch over to the Metric system. You know, grams, liters, meters. Just something I'll try and do. Oh, and my email, especially my homegrown listservs seem to take a while before they go out, so delayed communication should be expected. Except for this website, of course.

Okay. Long overdue update. We'll start from Thursday night. Jeff's plane gets delayed, as does Leah's parents because of the weather. I just keep cooking. It ends up they all come to dinner and drive up with Leah the next day. So I met them. The Gesoffs. I like 'em. Dinner went well, and nobody got food poisoning, so I think that's good. Work Friday, and see Van Helsing. I'm not going to bother linking because I didn't like the movie at all. Oh, and Friday I was part of a long and involved process verifying the ineligibility of a certain former ultimate player at Northwestern. Saturday head up to Madison a little late, go to graduation. Bradley Whitford gave the address, and it was great. He even made fun of his stint in an Adam Sandler movie. Dinner at L'etoile, fabulous. Breakfast the next day at Sophia's Bakery and Cafe. Then Leah and I stopped in Woodstock on the way back from Madison, had dinner with my parents, and then shuffled back into Chicago. Monday night Leah finished up the dishes from last Thursday's dinner. Tonight is Sushi at Sai, 8:15pm, organized by Remy. Really have to do some laundry, my brother and sister-in-law are in town for the week, Elisa's going away bash on Thursday, spring league tourney on Saturday. I think that's it, so far. Oh, and Alias finale on Sunday. And I thought it was quieting down.

Sai was soooo good last night. Very good. And Really good company. Leah and I show up first, then Akira shows up with his new bag, then Remy rambles through the door. We head back to a round table of 8, and sit in a nice crescent, backs against the wall. Sally shows up, Mia shows up, and Sarah brings up the rear. Mostly ultimate talk, what can you expect, but good stuff. No Italian ice, it was closed when we left. In a surprise move I'm going to see Troy tonight at 6:25pm River East. It's a DLP showing. How can I pass that up. And while finding the link to Troy I see that Saved! is opening up in a couple weeks. That movie looks funny.

So a long time ago I talked about getting a bag for my laptop, 12" powerbook. I was looking at the STM Alley, but it was special order? Well, the special order came in. And it's a sweet bag. Very nice. I like it, a lot. I wish it had a nice easy access slot for books or papers, but otherwise, I have no complaints. I didn't like Troy last night. I never entered into the movie. I did with Gladiator. Oh well.

So much laundry to do tonight. Not even funny how much needs to be done tonight. Scary amount. Makes for an exciting Friday night. But necessary, considering the lack of sleep over the previous week. I know it's unhealthy, but I just can't beat the cheap goodness of a Dunkin Donuts breakfast. $2.50 or less for a filling breakfast? Naperville tomorrow, Woodstock also tomorrow, and some ultimate stuff on Sunday. And Alias on Sunday. Last one in 2004. That's just a long time to go without the Bristows.

Laundry got done. Interns won our first game then lost our second, by a lot, before bailing to join some AYSO teams' end of season celebrations at a South Naperville Giordano's. Woodstock was good, hanging out with Al and Nicole, Julian and Steph, and the parents. Nice and relaxing, even if we didn't get to have a bonfire. Maybe next time. Sunday got to have the Port Edward's Brunch, which I had been craving, but they seem to have retired their deep fried french toast, which is a huge disappointment. Alias goes out with a whimper, at least I thought so. And Sunday also was my last practice as an official member of Kaze. I've taken myself off the team, as an official move to take the season off of Ultimate. Boston Invitational will be my farewell tournament. I've definitely enjoyed myself playing with Kaze, past and present.

I'm getting tired of wearing my glasses, but I need to get some contact solution before I can get back to my contacts. Got some much needed sleep last night. What else? Nope, nothing else. Really. Maybe there's something missing on the edge of my mind that I'm not remembering. Or maybe this is just a peek into the near future, of not having anything on the schedule. I am headed out to Woodstock to be a Godfather. That's on Saturday. Three day weekend, with no other plans. Maybe some movies.

This looks fabulous. Impressive. Looks better than that new Sony I was underwhelmed with. And they're actually sending them out to companies. The product is actually being made. I'm really impressed. I'm a little underwhelmed by the screen though, but if I'm mostly doing ssh stuff on it, what's the point? Impressive. Instead of the diner in the mornings I've been going to Panera Bread. Cheaper, and free wi-fi. I'll probably do that for a while, until I overdo it and move on to something else. New trend?

My home email server was fixed, finally. Which means it should no longer be my fault that some people don't get my emails. Then again, maybe there's something else. Anyway, watched Waterworld last night, a movie I actually like. Alternate futures, always interesting. Beach Pickup tonight, if it's not raining. Headed home tomorrow, back on Saturday. Maybe hang with AJ, maybe see the puppy, maybe watch Soul Plane. Sunday is an SBR reunion, and monday is a day off. Might be able to sneak some movies in there somewhere too. I should also clean up a bit as well. I figure I should also muse about giving up on competitive ultimate, maybe tomorrow.

Looking forward to the weekend. Scoreomatic coverage of UPA College Championships is pretty sweet. Beach was good last night, except when you layout on your own fist. Not so good for breathing. Should be a pretty easy weekend. I'll see what I can do about posting on the weekend. Might be a good time to start.