Some of us from the Chicago-SF group (suburban faction) are meeting at the Buffalo Grove Theaters tonight for dollar movie night. We're going to see The Prestige - it was pretty popular so it's better to get there early. The show is at 7pm.

More information here on the Chi-SF board.

Pictures from the Chicago-SF Christmas Party, hosted by Mark & Pauline Stanfa (thanks guys!). It was a great time, with much (Much MUCH) food and drink and sweets and people and conversation and games and fun and gifts and merriment. SO glad I went ( Read more... )

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Photos and videos from the 2006 Cajun Fest

EDITED TO ADD ANDY'S PICTURES.

EDITED AGAIN TO ADD NINA'S PICTURES.Thanks Daphne for having a birthday and a cajun husband who inspired this event last year, and to Nina and Jeff for providing extra entertainment, and to all our guest chefs who contributed dishes and time and really made this a great ( Read more... )

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I'm not lazy, just busy at work...

My weekend was mostly good, marred only by needing to help move my mother in law, who has been packing theoretically for almost two months, and who had SOOO many things still to pack. I mean fer the love of evil, she's got a one-bedroom apartment, you'd think she could at LEAST have had her shelves of books and paints and CDs packed. *sigh* So ( Read more... )

Games Plus auction starts tonight - 7pm, collectibles. Historical is Friday at 7, Fantasy/SciFi is Saturday at 10a, and Miniatures is Sunday at 10a. Those of you who care, probably already have it on your calendar. I'll be at the collectibles tonight for an hour or so, and at the miniatures on Sunday. The rest I'll likely miss this year ( Read more... )

Thursday was the usual fun crowd at our place for board games, we played Filthy Rich and Carcassone. I thought i was dead last in Carcassone, but judicious use of farming brought me back up to the middle of the pack, woohoo ( Read more... )

More house-hunting, still not finding much that's Perfect... we may need to decide which parts of not perfect we'd prefer ( Read more... )

We had an excellent turnout at the Serenity benefit screening, 269 people (which rocks given the short short notice we were able to give people and news outlets, I think we had a total of 10 days of promotion because we got started so late). Pictures (unedited, unlabeled, huge) are here. Current raised totals are here.
EDIT: Gallery hereWe ( Read more... )