Very curious experience on the bus this morning. I was taking the X28 downtown, per the usual, and this woman got on when we stopped at Michigan and Congress. Didn't think much of her at the start....I rarely think about much of anyone on the bus in the morning. It's just too early to care, right? Anyways, she gets to talking with this person ( Read more... )

So I've managed to sunburn myself worse than any time in my memory. I went to the beach today, since it was near ninety out. Rode my bike up there and spent about four hours in the sun. Took the sunscreen and I THOUGHT I had gotten everything important. Only problem is that I put it on before I stripped down to the bathing suit. That meant I ( Read more... )

I'm back in Chicago, of course, and the weekend is over. Overall, Saturday was a pretty good time. I was rather surprised that things went as well as they did, even with the large number of people going. Scott and the others wanted to ride the Top Thrill Dragster first off in the day, which I could have told them from the get-go would be a ( Read more... )

So today was quite the day. Since Joanna and I were driving to Ohio the night before the Cedar Point excursion, we decided to leave Chicago around noon-ish to get in by evening. I worked a half-day downtown, and then returned to Hyde Park around twelve-thirty to gather my things to put in Joanna's car. Granted, I had already packed the most of ( Read more... )

So glad to see the end of the week.  Friday was a nightmare.  I had multiple emails to various persons regarding United Technologies Corp, then more issues with Grosvenor with the client contact.  More conversations about Charter Communications with the contract specialist, and trying to tackle the MCL for UnitedHealth Group Inc.  As I suspected, ( Read more... )

First off, yes I know, it's been a very long time since I updated in a timely fashion.  The past few weeks have been a nightmare of a schedule.  I've been working overtime to compensate for the hours I took off last weekend to go home.  For anyone interested, I have written about a half dozen or so entries about the last few weeks and backdated ( Read more... )

Well, I was right about UTC being the client of doom.  The searches for documentation in iVault have been absolutely horrendous.  NSRs that I wouldn't consider sufficient at all....and every entity under the parent company uses it.  I guess I'll need to discuss it with someone in legal before I send things off to the TMO for greenlighting.  I've ( Read more... )

So yesterday afternoon when I was still at work, I got a call from Kevin about coming over for dinner.  Awesome timing, since I really didn't have anything in the fridge I wanted to eat that evening.  (Oh yeah, one of these days soon I really ought to clean that fridge out.  There's some stuff in there that really needs to go.)  Of course, it was a ( Read more... )

So work today was long.  Between Comcast and eBay, I have plenty of headaches.  I did get an answer about the former, though, which will give me less work in the long run.  Really detest vague language in authorizing documentation.  It makes things so difficult.  But enough of discussing work for the day.  Not much else of interest with that.  ( Read more... )

So Saturday was a busy day yesterday.  Bennett and his younger brother traveled to Chicago via the South Shore line from South Bend.  They were going to be at the Randolph station around eleven, so I had to be up early to get to the bank and on the bus in time to be at the Shedd Aquarium to meet them.  Even at ten in the morning, it was already ( Read more... )