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Having surpassed me in maturity a long time ago, you finally caught up to me in numbers :) Happy birthday. I love you!

The Soon To Be 6 Years Old - Is Minnesota somewhere where they drink a lot of soda? Now this was picked up by me on accident on the youtube. It's a cover of System of a Down's BYOB by a group of celloists called Break Of Reality. Pretty cool

There is a list at Byzantium Shores of books all SciFi fans should read. Since I have nothing else to blog about, I'll do it. Bold denotes read books, red denotes books I'm thinking of reading. I will also put some comments here and there. The Postman – David Brin The Uplift War – David Brin Neuromancer – William Gibson Foundation – Isaac Asimov Foundation and Empire – Isaac Asimov Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov I, Robot – Isaac Asimov (to comment on all of them ,Azimov is the staple of Sci-Fi and all of his books should be read IMHO) The Long Tomorrow – Leigh Brackett Rogue Moon – Algis Budrys The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury (too young when I read it to have any significant effect, maybe I should revisit) Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury Childhood’s End – Arthur C. Clarke The City and the Stars – Arthur C. Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke (I remember reading it, and that's it) Armor – John Steakley Imperia

I am getting old. Proof? yesterday, instead of going to a late evening Iron Maiden concert, I have purchased tickets already, I decided to stay home and go to the movies with the 5-Year-Old. And I enjoyed it.

For those of you in the loop will know what I am talking about, for those who don't, apologies but if you new my connection to them you'll figure it out pretty fast. Congratulations you guys! We are very happy for you!

I've been neglecting my duties as a host, largely to the fact that I have life going on on the other side of the keyboard. WE are still dealing with the after effects of thunderstorms. The latest victim, that was falling in a two week long agony, is garage door opener. It failed yesterday morning with a burnt out logic board. Another $120 to the appliance service industry. We are still unclear what to do about the stove top, whether or not replace it ($600 at least, with a need to widen the marble counter top hole). The Wii I will take take tomorrow for repairs. That's another sum I am not sure about. At least the TV is coming today and the furniture already came. Furniture was not a lightning storm victim, we've just decided it was time to utilize living room space in the house a bit better. The furniture cam with it's own problem. We've asked the sales person in the store to separate the sectional so we can take a look. They said they couldn't. It seems that t

My company yesterday hsoted a Townhall meeting addressing the impending merger. The meet and greet was held at the Catalyst Ranch, a pretty interesting place by itself, but this is not what this post is going to be about. I took a shuttle bus (given to us) from our O'Hare office to the Merchendise Mart Office. After that we should have taken the bus over the place, but the weather outside was beautiful, it was only a half mile away, and I don't get out to the city as much now. I have decided to take a nice leasurely walk, and took some pictures along the way with my new HTC EVO. A view from the Orleans/Franklin St bridge east, including a passing L,Corn Building, a part of Mart, and I believe the building witht he Wall is Encyclopidea Britannica Building. A view from the Mart. That building does not have a specific name I think. This is Mart's main entrance from across the river. A vew from Wacker onto the new Sun Times building. A view from Lake street bridge onto the rive