Night at the Museum

Just spent a night at the museum.  Not in the Ben Stiller/ Owen Wilson sense, more in the I work for a company that does advertising for the Museum of Science and Industry, and tonight was "family night", i.e. free night.  Although it was weird that at least 85% of the people attending I've never seen around the office.  Well, I hope they enjoyed it.

First Foster and I saw the coal mine, which somehow has been an exhibit since 1934 -- wouldn't quite a few of the visitors at that time been actual coal miners... they'd probably be calling bullshit, it'd be like an astronaut visiting Space Mountain, not the same.

Next we hit the Omnimax, saw a movie called Dinosaurs Alive.  Pretty good, narrated by Michael Douglas.  So, I guess Paleontology is "good" as well.

Caught the U-505 tour.  I love this thing.  Foster hates it.  For some reason a 65 year old Nazi sub freaks him out.  He believes the dramatic actors/tour guide way too much -- guess that whole we're not really under water speech flies over his head.

Saw the train, the baby chicks, the Toy Maker 3000 (which became un-automated and an Asian guy had to hop inside and shake the basket to get it working, ha).

Bowling begins...

The "Why Not" Bowling league has begun.  For me, it was a slow start.  Game 1: 98.  Game 2: 83 (8 frames of 9).  Game 3: 164.  How's that for inconsistency?   More posts to follow.... I'm in charge of all technology (not sure what that conists of) so its probably a Facebook group.

Jay Lackey, verteran blogger of The Slack Files, gave me some sound advice tonight on the blog.  Namely:

1.) Add a pic to the profile (Done, supplied by Jay in fact)

2.) "You need to get an intern on the task of snazzing up the look of the blog... the Minima template is so last year!"  (Going to get working on this tomorrow)

3.) You definitely have to change the order of "Blogs I Like" -- I'm third. More specifically, I'm third behind T-rel's blog. Not cool.  (Again changed, but to the order of "most recently updated").

4.) Blog about more cool shit  (Try my best, need to stay dedicated).

Sports filled weekend & sad endings

Came into the weekend with nothing to do, hit Paddy Longs on Friday night.  Watched the Sox, they lost.  Headed out to the SW Side on Saturday, went to the eye doctor.  Walked out with contacts.  Sorta surprised by that, but so far so good.  In fact, a lot better than glasses.

I then proceeded to watch more sports:

• First, ND v. Stanford (ND won)
  
• A break and beers at the BACtoberfest at the Beverly Arts Center
  
• Cubs v. Dodgers (Cubs lost, season over yet again)
  
• Woke up, Bears v. Detroit (Bears won)
  
• Followed by Sox v. Tampa Bay (Sox won)
  
• Break for work, finish EFFIE
  
• Sox v. Tampa (Sox lost, season over)
  

That was a lot of sports.  Chicago baseball is over.

Facebook Friday

Spent the good majority of today in a meeting with Facebook, felt like they wanted to take all of our smart ideas from us, re-package them and sell them back to us... I'd predict now, that while popular, Facebook will be just the latest fad in social networking...  Give it another 12 months.

Anyway, the White Sox dropped the second game in a five game series with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.  Not good.  As of right now both the Sox and the Cubs are both starting to look less likely to advance in the playoffs.  That's sad.

Stayed up late last night talking.  Told my story to Linds.  Been a long time since I've done that, feels good, and at the same time still feels massive.  We'll see what this weekend brings.