The end of the week was a jam packed for sure.

Thursday

I had my fourth eye surgery on Thursday afternoon. Like the last surgery, this involved numbing my eye, and then taking a scapel (a "diamond blade") and making a lot of cuts in my eye while I was wide awake.  Yes, it was even MORE fun than it sounds - and this was the second time in four ( Read more... )

So last weekend my nephew Justin and his girlfriend Alina came to Chicago to celebrate their fourth anniverary.  So John and I met them for dinner, and we invited our friend Cody.


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Friday night
Last Friday night we had some friends over and cooked out on the back deck. John and I have a new grill and we wanted to give it a work out.  Click to embiggen!


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So my last full week at work has been pretty busy.  I'm closing out files and preparing "exit memos" so people know exactly how much stuff I haven't done yet on my active files. [laughs]  I had to go to Minneapolis for hearings all day yesterday, so that took a big chunk out of time I was going to spend closing out work ( Read more... )

Yesterday, John's closing went without any problems.  He's officially sold his condo in Springfield, Illinois.  To celebrate, we bought an $11.99 bottle of wine (a spicy Malbec) and had a lovely dinner of pupusas at a Guatemalan restaurant over in Lincoln Square ( Read more... )

I didn't  do very much last Saturday.  I organized an event to the batting cages out in the Chicago suburbs.  Quite honestly, I was a bit worried about my hitting for this upcoming season.  During playoffs last year, I, um, caught a ball with my face.  So well, in fact, it smashed up and almost ruptured my eyeball, and also managed to break my nose ( Read more... )

Saturday
So this last weekend was Andersonville Sommerfest.

I have a fond spot in my heart for this street festival, because Andersonville is my favorite neighborhood in Chicago. I used to live there until fall of '07, and I am toying with the idea of moving back there this fall.

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Wow, this whole "act like a weekend is for relaxing" thing is starting to get to me.  This is the second weekend in a row that I've just chilled and relaxed.  I love it.

Saturday:


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Although I haven't blogged about it much, my back has been causing me some problems for the last three weeks or so.  I'm actually doing pretty well, but walking is chore.  I'm hobbling around and tying my shoes is comically funny.  Some days are better than others.  For instance, last week there were a couple of days that I literally couldn't turn ( Read more... )