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This has been a day of pretty good news so far. First, my youngest son may be coming home from the hospital in time to trick or treat afterall! Today he seemed very much himself, and the doctors seem to think that he can come home soon. Yaaaaaay!
And some news of lesser magnitude […]

Nothing like a house full of kids for some drama. Yesterday, on the way to a political rally, my youngest son started vomiting in the car. We weren’t sure what the cause was, but we knew that our plans had been scuttled. So we turned around and headed back into the city. A short time […]

Once again proving that no good deed goes unpunished, those stupid dogs at Universal Studios are biting the fans that feed it. Universal has sicced its lawyers on Firefly fans demanding that they stop promoting the show and even retroactively billing them for licensing fees.
Now I don’t have a problem with a company protecting its […]

The Daily Tech reports that Red Hat has announced that the City of Chicago is migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It also reports that the city has already saved about $250K by migrating. Amidst all of the stories about political cronyism and corruption, it’s good to hear not only something intelligent out of the […]

Yesterday afternoon I brought my old exercise cycle up from the basement in part because my condo is doing a basement clean out. The other part is wanting to add the cycle back into my workout routines. I got the thing cleaned up and found a spot for it in a corner of the living […]

Ugh! It never fails, I always manage to get sick after a con. Usually I’m laid up on the following Monday, but this time I tried being macho and went to work anyway, a bit in a daze. Well that just put off the inevitable, so I’m out today instead… Worst of all though is […]

I just got my pictures from Reactor 2006 up. Just click the link below. Enjoy!
Reactor 2006 Cosplay Pictures

I attended Reactor this weekend at the Purple Hotel and the first thing I’ll say is that I had a good time, a better time than last year. So today, back at work is a bit of a let down, so on that note, I’d say Reactor was a successful convention.
After years of taking pictures […]

First let me get just one thing out of the way. Painting your face is a helluva lotta fun! Guys who have not tried some make-up do not know what they are missing. I got some help from this really nice lady named Linda at the State Street Macy’s and after some practice at home, […]

After some less than spectacular grades, we reinstituted the schoolnight television ban in our household. TV has never been such a big deal that the kids get all spastic in its absence, so it’s not a big deal here and life goes on with a little more time for homework. Nevertheless, the spirit of the […]

An elementary school in Boston has banned tag for fear of getting sued if a child gets hurt playing. They’ve also banned touch football and any other unsupervised contact sports, CNN reports. This is just ridiculous! They’d might as well ban childhood altogether while they’re at it! I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve […]

Going to dim sum, yaaaaay! It’s the little things that help keep me going!

There’s such a thrill making something you can wear from what starts out as a bunch of unconnected bits of cloth! Last night I finally finished the cuffs for the costume I’m working on, and the end results are pretty good, which says a lot considering that I know I made a lot of mistakes! […]

There’s been a lot of talk about how people have put all sorts of personal stuff up on MySpace only to have it come back and bite them in the ass when they’re looking for jobs. The new Google Code Search may to doing this for some developers now. Kotte.org has an article summarizing a […]

The streets of downtown Chicago were overcast and cold today. It wasn’t the greatest mood raiser to be had, nevertheless, I always feel better after my lunchtime walk, so I went out anyway. I grabbed a bench in Millenium Park and finally had a chance to dive into The Day Of Revolution which I bought […]