Well, nearly 5 months ago we heard about the saddest day, and now we find ourselves at June 20. Today's SportsCenter quoted USA Today -- today, June 20, 2008, is hereby declared the happiest day of the year. Enjoy!
Funny thing is, I don't think I feel any different today than I did back in January. Except the wedding is only two weeks away. Now that's exciting.
On subway car 666 this morning, I had just heard a mobster analyze the near fight we watched on our bus detour -- two insecure men needed to ensure themselves of their masculinity, threatened lawsuits, hitting, slapping (but not punching). I could tell the mobster was watching me out of the corner of his eye from the other end of the subway car. We descended into the subway tunnel, things got darker and I thought, "Great, I'm on car 666, the lights are going to go out and the mobster is going to attack me in the dark and whisk me away to some unknown location."
Thankfully, he moved to another car and got off a few stops later. I arrived at Willow Chicago late, but unharmed. And none of this is fictional.
After 29 hours of travelling, i finally made it to The Drake. It's real nice. Too nice. And the Cubs won 13-6! Time to go meet high society...
I'm flying out to Chicago tomorrow until Wednesday -- frequent flyer miles are the greatest thing ever. No particular reason, just for fun. On the agenda:
We'll see what else we find while we're there. Dad's company has its annual conference at The Drake, so that's where we'll be staying. Hopefully I'll have updates on the blog.
Remember those bean burritos you had last night, and how they just keep coming back? Yeah, missions is like that. Funny ad from Amor:
No, not me! Are you?
According to a study by Dr. Cliff Arnall from Cardiff University, today is the most depressing day of the year. He uses "a formula he developed, which factors in the weather, consumer debt from holiday spending and failed New Year's resolutions and arrives at that conclusion" (Time).
Today's been a pretty good day, so I think he missed it. Better luck next year...
Over the past few months, my iPod has been acting strangely. I deduced that the hard drive was on its last leg, and gave it a little tech CPR a few times. My patience finally ran out, and I realized it was time to move on. I posted the broken iPod on eBay, fully disclosing its brokenness (including these pictures of the sad face!) and darned it if the thing didn't sell within 24 hours for the Buy It Now price.
Broken iPod: $40.
Shipping & handling: $5.95
Having a broken iPod to give someone for Christmas: priceless
For high quality gifts at Christmas, there's the Apple store. For everything else, even when it's broken, there's eBay
from Kurt.
The task: shuffle your iPod and list off the first 15 songs. Completely random and a lot of fun!
1.] The Birthday Song: Paul Colman Trio
2.] She Will Be Loved: Maroon 5
3.] Close My Eyes: Matisyahu
4.] Rock the Boat: Kinnie Starr [what the heck? random iTunes freebies I guess...never heard this one before!]
5.] Susie, Don't Be Blue: Evan Marshall [MySpace | iTunes]
6.] Student Driver: Stellar Kart
7.] Dancing Queen: A-Teens
8.] Names Sake: Shane & Shane
9.] Empty Me: Jeremy Camp
10.] Feel: Silers Bald
11.] The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg: Iron Maiden [again, who?]
12.] King of New Orleans: Better Than Ezra
13.] My Neighborhood: Verbs
14.] The Remedy: Jason Mraz [random fact: a couple of my students were in the school choir at Jason's former high school and sang on his album in '06]
15.] Creation: WFU Minor Variation [my buddy Mike recorded their album in '06
