Awkward Family Photos

Dear lord. And I thought some of MY family photos were bad. (And they were. But not THIS bad.)

Okay, so I've been crap at updating lately. That's mainly due to a confluence of factors, many of them being work-travel-related. As usual, been shuttling back and forth between Detroit and Chicago (with some side trips to exotic locales like Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids and Lansing). It's funny -- the travel itself isn't bugging me as much as it ( Read more... )

In reference to Rex Grossman:
http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/17465/so_long,_suckers_sexy_rexy_is_leaving_chicago

You probably like your airline pilots and heart surgeons ( Read more... )

Aside from all the snow yesterday, it was a good weekend. In reverse order ( Read more... )

I have no idea how to do the YouTube embedding thing, so I'll just do it old-school and post a link ( Read more... )

Last night, I went with zanshin_dad to the Chicago Auto Show. It's an almost-every-year tradition, and kind of a strange one, admittedly; neither one of us is a huge car guy. We both like 'em, and I think either one of us would take an Audi A5 if it was offered to us -- but given circumstances (commute for both of us, urban living for me), ( Read more... )

The weekend, it was quiet, but it was good ( Read more... )

Someone broke into my car Friday night ( Read more... )

The earworm I'm currently suffering from: Billy Ocean's "When the Going Gets Tough".

GAH GAH GAH KILL ME.

I really wanted to go running this week while I'm in Detroit but going out both nights with my consultants for dinner really cut into the available time to go hit the gym. So last night in my hotel room, I thought, hey, I can hit the treadmill in the little bitty hotel "workout room" (you know the type, the converted hotel room with one lonely ( Read more... )