FINALLY!!!!!-- I can finally edit my website at home again. I haven't been able to FTP to my ISP over DSL for over a year. All it took was a guy at Catalog.com telling me to increase my packet settings in my router, then calling Linksys to find out where that undocumneted feature was, and voila! I can upload crap to my website from home again. This means I don't have to email anything to my work email and upload from there anymore. Ahhhhh the simple pleasures of working out a nagging technical error. I don't want to drop kick my computer anymore...today.

Anticipation-- It's killing me. Nationals is just 2 days away.

AmazingHondaAd-- This is an extremely cool Honda Ad done a la Rube Goldberg. After 606 takes they finally got it right!

GoodCookin'-- What a treat last night. We left Mason at home (with some helpful neighbors), and I took Tricia out to her post-Mother's Day present. We went to Culinary Classes at the Rosebud. Rosebud is by far our favorite Italian Restaurant(s) in Chicago. They open up their corporate kitchen and have their top chefs teach people how to cook their signature dishes. We watched them cook, then we ate the results. Oh my God. I've never eaten so much in my life. We learned to make coconut shrimp, Louisiana chicken gumbo, crab cakes, steak au poivre with french fires and sesame Chinese green beans, and apple crisp. For $75 a person I'd recommend coming to Chicago for a cooking class and skipping the restaurant altogether. It's just as much fun, you learn something, and you go home with t-shirts and other crap. Yummmmm.....

MiniWorld-- Thank God my brother-in-law keeps me up to date on geek world. I think I've found my future hobby. Packing computers into humidors, toasters and lunchboxes. This looks like so much fun. I'd love to have something far cooler on my desk than even the latest Mac enclosure. How about a vintage radio, or a model General Lee that is my computer. Anyone have any cool ideas? Walt?