Oldies: Sunday, August 8 - Saturday, August 14, 2004...

Friday, 13 August 2004: I tell you what, going to Chicago is fun. That's how Katie and I spent our Friday the 13th. We took the train to the city and walked up to the Hancock Plaza to eat a late lunch at the Cheesecake Factory, then we did some shopping along the Miracle Mile, and, finally, we took a self-guided tour of Millennium Park.

It may not sound like much, but we had fun. There's never enough time to finish up everything you want to do in the city. But at least we finally got to see Millennium Park and the infamous "Bean." Yep, the big reflective metal, kidney bean shaped sculpture in the middle of the park. It's not as bad as some people make it out to be. It's actually kinda cool. I took a bunch of pictures and I will have them up soon... promise.

Wednesday, 11 August 2004: I was listening to the radio this morning (101.9 WTMX-Chicago) and the DJs were talking about less-than-favorable fashion trends. Eric, the male host, was talking about how men don't find women's ponchos to be at all sexy and that women only wear them to impress other women. Many male callers confirmed this viewpoint.

To make it even, he opened it up to the female DJs, Kathy and Melissa, who started to tear into male trends. They mentioned many things that I can agree with like sandals with socks, golf visors (especially with sunglasses on them), pleated khaki pants, and Zubaz pants (I can't believe these were ever "in"). But one they mentioned kinda bugged me... any kind of denim shorts.

What's wrong with denim shorts? I can understand that cut off are a bit funky looking, but when you wear nice denim shorts, what the hell is wrong with them? What am I missing? Help.

Tuesday, 10 August 2004: Okay, this was a little too cute to say no to. I found this on another website. It is the Sesame Street Terror Alert Level and it's a fun spin on an otherwise serious topic. What you get are Sesame Street characters that represent the five terror levels. It is updated as necessary by some other side administrator and the information is loaded and automatically updated on any site that has the HTML source code properly encoded on their site. Aw, what the heck, I'll give it a try.

I always knew that damn Elmo was trouble...

Monday, 9 August 2004: In case you're wondering why Lamb has been in the "Read Me" box for so long, I swear I have a good reason for it. No, it's not that every book I've read since that time has been completely terrible. Actually, I've hit a bit of a reading slump since that point in time. I've tried to read six different books but have not made it through four of them. I did finish one and it wasn't quite good enough to warrant a spot in the box. And I'm pretty close to finishing another one. Hopefully by tomorrow or the day after I will have it finished and reviewed. This book actually does warrant listing in the box, so you all will have something new to look at there. I swear.

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