* Happy October! Crazy that it's fall already. What more do you need than scarves and Halloween...
* During the hiatus, I hosted my lovely parents for a few days and had a great time. Learn to appreciate hanging out with your family. You'd be surprised.
* Medieval Times is pretty intense.
* You're not in as good a shape as you think. Any kind of health-related test will emphasize that. Be prepared.
* The city is "capital" and the building is "Capitol."
* Matchbox 20 renamed themselves Matchbox Twenty after their first album. I really like the new stuff ...still trying to decide whether to file that under "guilty pleasure." (The new Dashboard Confessional album already has been filed by default.)
* Somewhere in Chicago, there's this giant shiny bean I keep hearing about. I have no idea what it is, but I will find it and take a photo just like everyone else.
* I still can't get over that the members of Alkaline Trio grew up just down the road a bit.
* Only a small group of the Donner party resorted to cannibalism. And they waited a few months. They also left from Springfield, Illinois.
* Even the coach of the White Sox says "it is what it is." Has to be a northern thing.
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Two of my bosses at my last job in Chicago often said 'it is what it is', having spent the last twenty years down south it was new to me, I now associated it with middle management scapegoat spinelessness and cringe if I hear it.
The Bean (I actually prefer Cloudgate) is a great photo op, I chose to focus on taking pictures of the tourists with the bean as a backdrop. (you can see it on my photo blog if whim compels)
This post was capital!
You can see the "bean" at milleniumpark.org It is the cloud gate at the AT&T pavilion. Dad
Correction to my previous comment--"millenium" has two "n"s--so the correct web address is....http://www.millenniumpark.org/artandarchitecture/cloud_gate.html
there is even a "bean" slide show there.
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