Haven't updated in awhile. Here's what's been a-goin' on:

• Knocked out my civic duty and took advantage of early voting on Saturday. My lonely Democratic party hack vote is likely to be swallowed up in the deluge of taxophobes who make up the body politic in DuPage County, but from hell's heart I stab at thee, etc.


• My passport has arrived! I am ( Read more... )

It's been quite awhile since my last reasonably lengthy update. Quite a few notable events have recently eventuated, so let's get caught up:

• I just wrote a check for my final car payment! And only 52,000 miles on the ol' Ford Focus. Woo hoo!


• I got Lasik surgery on Friday night. The laser part of it was completely painless, but there's also a bit ( Read more... )

Happy 2010 to all of youse. Behold the cavalcade of Ajax life events that have eventuated.

• Today is my birthday. Happy birthday to me! For those keeping score, I am now 6² years of age.


• I had a delicious birthday dinner last night with the family at Chicago Prime Steakhouse in the 'burbs. A pretty pricey meal (not that I paid!), but I left ( Read more... )

I keep getting tagged by this (at least five times and counting on Facebook), and since it's been awhile since I had a real update, here we go. However, I'm reducing it from 25 things to 15 because, to be honest, not much goes on in my life.

1. Last Friday on the way home from work, my car's odometer rolled over to 40,000 miles. I bought it in June ( Read more... )

Didn't have a great week last week, money-wise ( Read more... )

The Good News: I discovered a local pizza place that offers a large variety of items, is fairly inexpensive, and delivers until 1:30am weekdays, 3:30am Friday and Saturday, and 11:00pm on Sundays.

The Bad News: Their pizza is not that great.

More Bad News: At an indeterminate time last week, some jackass keyed my car.

The Good News: The ( Read more... )

First thing -- Ajax Fiscal Year 2008 begins today. I pay taxes in February, my lease runs through March, and my raises come in April, so why does my fiscal year start in July? Answer: because that's when I started tracking my grocery, gas and restaurant bills in a systematic fashion. Now you know ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the awesomest day I've had in a fair bit. Behold:

1) Bears won! YAAAAYY!

2) I enjoyed the company of misskaz, wurdsome, letsgomiah and his boy Brian at the latter's apartment to watch the game. Nice to get out of the house for something fun ( Read more... )

A week ago, 1144 and I went on vacation for the Memorial Day weekend. Kate is a big fan of road trips, so she decided it would be fun to drive up through Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and see some nature, small Midwestern towns, and any other points of interest that we happened to run across ( Read more... )

So after rescuing my 1-day-old car from the fucking tow place at 8:00 am this morning ( Read more... )