So my big plans of writing over the weekend? Failed. I'm now a godfather. Made it home and back again from Woodstock in under 18 hours. Dropped by the Michigan Ave. Apple Store to pick up a wired mouse and, why not, a sightlight for an iSight I never use. But just in case. Got to see Soul Plan, funny, with Russell and Sarah. Hung out with AJ and Ed for a bit at her new place. Letizia's looks like an absolutely fabulous bakery. I'm looking forward to trying that place out. Got some donuts and icecream on the way home, partly because I watched a bit of Strange Brew while at AJ's. Caps and a little beer schtick on Sunday. My caps arm is a bit sore for the past couple of days. Watched a whole bunch of movies on Monday, Resident Evil, Serendipity, The Core, Wargames. Good movie watching weekend. Signed up for Summer League with Leah too. Otherwise, not much else. Can't say I've got much planned for the week.

I finally fixed a problem I was having with Terminal.app and ssh'ing to my linux box and the delete/backspace key. Ended up just making all incoming terminals into xterm rather than xterm-color. Anyway, if anyone else has that problem. Did I also ever mention that the cheap Dunkin' Donuts breakfast, the #1, Med. Coffee and 2 donuts, that the Evanston one raised price sometime in the last year from $2.40 to $2.50? Relatively random piece of info. Had some sushi last night, at 2 separate places. Buses take longer when there's a Cubs game just getting out. I'm already done with the first Harry Potter and moving on to the second. Fast reads. Beach tomorrow.

Okay, just noticed that Weblogs, Inc. new Autoblog, about, you guessed it, cars. Gadget cars. Cool cars. And the occasional minivan. Anyway, I read a lot on-line. Or is it on line, two words? Anyway, I'm passing on beach tonight for chores. This weekend Jessica Jenkins is crashing at my place, for a wedding, which will be good. Might try and get some sushi, maybe watch some movies. Got the NU Old vs. Young game on Sunday. Jeff's Graduation party on Saturday. And, not much else.

Okay, I'll update. Jessica Jenkins crashed on my couch for the weekend. Went to sushi on Friday (had sushi 3 times last week!) and watched Better Luck Tomorrow. Saturday got up, made some breakfast, waited for Leah to come back from practice, Dave and Shaw dropped by to say hello, and then Leah and I went to Jeff Bacote's Graduation Party (Congrats!) sharing a cab with KK. Ended up at Bryan/Carlo/Tony's for a little Ping Pong, dropped by the Russell's interim home to see Marla again, and made it back home for bedtime. Sunday, dropped Leah off at her place early, didn't wake Jessica up, went to an Old vs. Young game for NU (Old won, 13-8, 13-8, last 2 points scored by captains only 6 on 7, but the young looked good), did some laundry, dropped Jessica off at the airport, ended up at KK's for a BBQ and in bed by 10:30, which was good, because I'm sick. Head cold. Just in time to start summer league and poultry days. Sweet. Other exciting news is that Apple released what I've been looking for, a device to serve up music from iTunes. Sweet. Too bad I've got to wait until July. I forgot to mention that the last Airport Extreme client software update improves my home connection by a lot and reduces drops in connectivity. All good things. And I think that's it. Summer league Monday and Wednesday and leaving Friday day for Versailles, OH.

So last night marked my return to summer league after a year off. I played with team 5 on the South side and we lost our first game (that doesn't count). Should be fun. Driving wasn't too bad down from Evanston. Got a Teach For America event on Thursday to go to with Leah. All this driving means I don't get to read my books as much anymore, which isn't too good. And don't even get me started on the heat. It's finally getting pretty bad. And then poultry days this weekend. It's supposed to have scattered T-storms through Monday. Storm system looks like it's coming out of Texas. Ugh. Another wet Poultry Days. I should really try out my tent.

So you know that movie Twister? The one with the flying cows? Anyway, the weather reports make me think of that movie, actually, the weather from the last couple weeks reminded me of that movie, especially that day when there were multiple Tornadoes that touched down in the Pennsylvania area, even an F5. But it's supposed to thunderstorm all weekend long, maybe, possibly. Very up in the air, quite literally. I have a GMail account, courtesy Katie Kelly. I guess I traded an orkut invite for it. What I might use it for, I have no idea. And remember how much I looked down on EasyMac, that how hard is it to boil water, well, I'm one of those people. Well, I could be, as soon as I pop one open. But I own some. I know.

Poultry Days was fun. Quite fun. I expected about 250% more rain than I got, pretty much Saturday morning only. No sleeping in the rain. No actual playing in the rain. Just some good playing, some quality hanging out, some good fair food, missing all the traffic. Full writeup on the more. Summer league Monday and Wednesday, Sushi maybe on Tuesday, Beach on Thursday, and oh, Father's Day this coming Sunday. Poultry Days was fun. Quite fun. I expected about 250% more rain than I got, pretty much Saturday morning only. No sleeping in the rain. No actual playing in the rain. Just some good playing, some quality hanging out, some good fair food, missing all the traffic. Left Chi-town around 10:45, apparently just before the way to Versailles turned into a parking lot, got a tarp, a camping lantern/flashlight, and some Arby's before rolling in to a fairly empty campground around 6pm. Set up in the middle of Party Central, whoops, got some fair food, started drinking, waited for the friends and teammates to roll in. Finally did meet some teammates as Jessie stepped in for Ethan (who raised the money) for the Cool Hand Luke egg eating contest for charity and won us some swass Gaia jerseys (with the cloth lip for wiping the disc off). Tried to sleep, but failed miserably because of poor location choice. My tent's awesome, my first ever (thanks Leah!), actually used this year. Playing on Saturday was delayed by a thunderstorm, which eventually gave way to beautiful day. Slim Chickens did pretty well, winning out and and managed to get a 3 seed in the A bracket. Watched Batch represent as best she could in the All Star game. Had some chicken, showered in the pool showers (Now with Hot Water!), and some more drinking. A game of Table Ball after some team bonding lead to an early bedtime. Sunday rolled around and a quick start on the day's games brought a quarters birth against last year's winners Breasts and Thighs. Tough game, especially since I watched my guy (Aaron Bongard) score the winner, 11-9, from about 20 yards away. Not a great way to end the weekend. Packed up, said our goodbyes, planned on Potlatch, and made our (Leah, Remy and I) way back to Chicago, a slight pause for Steak n' Shake and a random gas stop visit with a couple of Leah's friends from Barcelona now in Madison and their new baby. Some personal highlights on playing:

• watching Rocky Beach move on defense. So fast. Not just his legs, but this arms too. Got his hand on a disc, oh, a lot. I still remember one, turning away from the mark and his hand hitting the swing.
• leah picking the disc up, getting called by Rocky for first cut, noticing that they're forcing leah backhand, taking my defender 5 yards in before going deep for her sweet backhand put. Yeah, it was the honey connection.
• my first true layout D in a while. top of the cup, maybe short deep, heard leah oh the left wing call out "on your right" and the full extension fingertip D, onto the wet soft grass.
• watching Pat Hard put a 50 yard hammer, low and fast upwind

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate trojan spam harvesters? Someone I know, well, at least one person I know, must be using Outlook, got a something, clicked on something, and now there's a whole set of emails spoofed from people who are in some collective Chicago ultimate email address book that's just plain spam or trojan bearing. Ugh. Mutt, is where I'm at. Or even Mail.app is where I am when I'm not mutting. Anyway, spam and trojans suck. Captains of Olde lost last night to Old Number 7 (KK and Chuck really). Moving around was a little difficult. Sore from the weekend. Still on for sushi at Sai.

Didn't go to Sai, but got sushi anyway, delivery from Chen's, while doing laundry. I know, exciting evening. But good. Watched Shade while folding. Summer League soon, beach tomorrow if it isn't raining, and Woodstock on Saturday night for a Father's Day dinner. Weblogs, Inc. keeps on coming with the hitz, now with Joystiq, a blog on gaming. I like these blogs better than traditional news sources, why? Not sure. But whoever is writing them seems to like the same stuff I do. Oh, and now definitely going to Potlatch. Should be sweet. My digital camera use is falling dramatically, which is a little sad. And I keep looking for something new, some gadget, something to buy, even though I don't need anything and don't have the budget for it. Oh and up to 5 friends in orkut.

So, I changed my password on my home account, the linux box, with all the emails and stuff, last night, and didn't try and log on until this morning. Guess what I forgot? My new password. So, I'm off the grid till I get a chance fix this particular problem. Otherwise, lost again in summer league, went to Piece, paid for pizza after watching hungry summer league players fight for the free stuff. Still on for beach tonight, with no rain in sight. And after today, no more ultimate till Monday. My cell phone, my trusty old t68i, roughly 1 1/2 years old, is dying on me. I think anyway. Might be time to get a new one, which makes me happy. Maybe have a good reason to get a new gadget. Shibby.

Too much ultimate. And it isn't even really too much ultimate. But I'm tired, and sore, and my body needs the rest. Beach was a blast yesterday. I brought out my handy dandy port-a-field. Easy to setup and take down. Quite nice. Gave the whole game an air of legitimacy. Good crowd too. Taking it easy tonight and plan on sleeping in tomorrow. Phone seems to be working no problems again, so hoping it was just solar flares or something. I'll shoot for the 2 year mark before replacing it. Shoot for it anyway.

Fairly quiet and way too short weekend. Tried to watch the Harry Potter's on Friday, and only managed 1/2 of the first one. Enjoyed the sunshine on Saturday before driving out to Woodstock for my mom's Father's Day dinner. Helped my cousin move a couple pieces of furniture into her new townhouse in Cary after my first ever breakfast at Around the Clock (Crystal Lake diner, reminds me of Omegas). Took the long way in to the city, just like before, 14 to 22 out to 94. Just like going to NU. Bummed around Sunday after getting back in. Got some good shorts at Urban Outfitters. And a retro jacket thingie. This style thing, it's weird. Summer league tonight and Wednesday, some packing, getting things in order for the upcoming coast to coast tour. Gotta hydrate since it's pretty much savage this weekend. And I think that's it.

I borrowed my dad's Tugsten T3, just to try it out, see what it's like, and spent the morning commute browsing the web over the GPRS connection bluetoothed with my phone. So that was pretty sweet. It's nice, except for the Graffiti2 stuff, since I don't like writing when I could be typing. So it's nice. But there's no nice SSH client for the Palm OS. So I looked at the Sharp Zaurus 760 or 860. Nice looking machines, full fledged linux boxes, VGA screens, command lines, very very sweet. Also very very expensive. Ugh. Oh well. Other things, I'm halfway through Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Movie version).

I skipped summer league on Monday. Driving down I went through some bad rain, so I went home instead, and watched the weather clear up from my living room. But I'm going tonight. Then I got to pack for Boston. My car needed some fuel timing thing-a-ma-bob replaced, and now I've got to go pick it up.

Since when did I turn into Information? Has my cell phone number been inextricably linked to 411? I know I always provided info to Leah, that's just normal, expected. But providing people's names? Status of public transportation in Chicago? Interesting, that's what it is. Headed to Boston this afternoon. Packed up and ready to go. No idea what's on tap for tomorrow in Beantown. Boston Invite this weekend with Kaze, err, University of Chicago, err, just some random team. Back on Sunday. On a side note, I just read a rumor off The Digital Bits that there's a new Collector's Edition of Rounders being released on Sept. 7th. Sweet. A quality effect of the the poker fad.

A short couple days in Chi-Town before heading out again. Boston, well, it was alright. Kaze tanked. Well, whatever team that was that I played with, tanked. I didn't help at all. Ofer. Haven't done that in a long time. Really long time. Flying had no problems. Driving after the Thursday night arrival was a problem. Stupid traffic. Bad directions, bad signage. Not fun at all. Very frustrating. Anyway, that's behind me. Skipped summer league last night. Unsure of my evening plans. Might go to summer league tomorrow. Then leaving Thursday for Seattle. The 3 things I remember from my previous visit there with my family was a really really short monorail trip, eating at Wild Ginger, and having my first Italian Soda at my brother's friend's house. I wonder what this weekend will have in store for me. Oh, Puck has been emissions tested and passed. Ordered a new city sticker.