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The newest Cubs fan..

Go Cubies, yeah baby, this is our year.......again.

Chicago Skyline

On Sunday, my brother drove me around in downtown Chicago. I took some pictures of the skyline from some of the museums that Chicago has. It is known for its museums. The pictures were taken at around 8:00 am. The morning was gorgeous.

The Meaning of Limber

Well, on my return from Chicago, little Irelan showed me how limber she is. She can actually touch her toes....... with her mouth. Check out the pictures.

White castle - yummmmmers

Well, yesterday I didn't do too much, a little shopping and fixing my moms TV. Later on in the afternoon, we were going to go to Jovi's house and have pizza. As Rita was driving my mom and me to Jove's, we thought that this might be a good time to stop and pick up some Castles. I was really starting to crave some and I figured that I would still have room for pizza; and that way Jovi wouldn't know that we had sliders. As we were driving down the road, I noticed that Rita wasn't going to the direction of the Castles' near my moms house. Rita said that there was one closer to Jovi's house and we would still have time to eat them on the road due to heavy traffic. When we got to the site, we realized that there was no Castle in site. Somehow, either they moved the building or there was non there at all and maybe my sister only imagined it. Then she assured me that she knew of another location near my brother's house. Well, when we got to the 2ND location, no Castles in site. I was beginning to wonder if this was really my sister. How could a person possessing the sames genes as myself, not know where a White Castle was located.
We finally decided to abort our mission and instead head to Jovi's house. Rita promised me that she would take me tomorrow.

This morning I woke up at a good time, 4:30 Chicago time, and made my coffee and had my pie. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that my sister Rita picked up an apple pie from Bakers Square for me, nice sister. At 8 this morning I decided to do a preemptive strike and venture out on my own to get some sliders. I decided that I couldn't take a chance with my sister again, if in fact she really is my sister. I walked over to the Castle place and downed 6 sliders and had a Fanta grape soda, yummmmmmmmers. Now, the world is as it should be.

Hello Chicago - Again

Well, I'm back in Chicago. It wasn't that long ago that I was here last. Shimaine and I were here for Thanksgiving last year. The last time I was here, the weather was great, but this week it looks like I'll be experiencing some Chicago rain and maybe snow. Least wise that's what the predictions are for this week.

My sister Rita picked me up from the airport and took my mother and myself to a newly opened "Longhorn" restaurant near my mothers house. This was a special occasion, my mother's 84Th birthday - way to go mom!! The weather is overcast and at night, the winds picked up and it started raining. Not quite cold enough for snow, but definitely lots of rain.

I woke up this morning pretty early. When I went to bed, my cell phone time was set at California time. When I woke up this morning, I looked at the time on my cell and it said 2:30 am. I said great, my normal time for getting up in California. I got up made coffee and sat down to work on my laptop. To my horror, I realized that it was 2:30 Chicago time which would put me at getting up 12:30 California time. Sometime during the night, my phone switched to Central Time. This wouldn't be too bad if I went to bed early, but I wanted to keep my same California routine and went to bed at 8:15 pm California time (10:15 pm Chicago time), so basically, I slept for a little less than 4 hours. Hopefully I'll be able to take a nap today and make up some sleep time.

I didn't take any pictures in Chicago yet, but I do have some more pictures of my little Irelan. Probably not that big of a surprise to most of you who know me. I just can't get enough of her laughter and smiles.







I took this self portrait picture of Irelan and myself of her sleeping. The little princess is just as cute as can be.

Vista

I just purchased Vista, the new operating software for Windows, and installed it on my computer. It installed effortlessly and I was up and running within an hour and half. I really liked what they did with the desktop and how Aero manipulates the open windows on the screen. My free Grisoft antivirus does not work with Vista but Vista comes with very good firewall software. So far, the only annoying action that I can see is when I properly remove a USB memory stick, the screen turns black momentarily and then returns to its normal self. This I will have to look into and see how I can correct. Other than that, so far so good.

Uses for a "playbag"

Irelan's mom carries Irelan's toys in a bag that she has allocated as a toy bag. While watching Irelan play, I noticed that she moved her toys a lot. So, being the enterprising person that I am, I thought I would try putting Irelan in the bag surrounded by her toys. To my amazement, she really liked it. Oh, I happened to have a camera near by, so I thought that I would take some pictures, something I normally don't do.