Huh. Well over a year without posting to this thing. Do I offer excuses, blame political turmoil in Russia, or just pretend it didn't happen ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who sponsored me, takaza and rustitobuck in the Polar Plunge last weekend, or left messages of support. Thanks to you all, we raised over $1300 for Special Olympics of Illinois. It was a different experience from the Lakeview Polar Bear Club swim at Lake Michigan in January-- for one thing the air temperature was about twenty degrees warmer, ( Read more... )

Last night I got together with a some folks in the city and watched The Hangover, which was okay. The most exciting part was when a transformer1 burned itself up right outside the window, freaking the hell out of the dog and knocking out electricity for the whole block. Com Ed was pretty quick to get people out there, and power was back within a ( Read more... )

So on takaza's suggestion, this Sunday at 1pm I will be participating in a "Polar Plunge" to benefit the Illinois Special Olympics organization. This one will take place at Fox Lake, which I'm told is still fairly frozen over, so it should still be nice and brisk. If anyone is interested in sponsoring me, there's a page for doing that here. Any ( Read more... )