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sssoooooo... we got stuck in chicago... but we (the royal "we") came in late enough in the afternoon that the only hotel with a room available was all the way out in arlington heights. why were we stuck in chicago? ah, the snow and freezing rain, of course. here's the amazing view from our amazing room at the amazing holiday inn express here in amazing arlington heights, chicago:



hungry and unsatisfied with the choice between Denny's or Yanni's, we decided to walk around in the freezing rain, in search of an alternate.



we decided this would be known heretofore as "ADVENTURE DAY!!!" 0.2 miles and far too many minutes of freezing rain in our face later, we decided ADVENTURE DAY was over and bailed into the the nearest establishment, the birch river grill. brilliant choice, they have SIERRA ON TAP. better still, they serve a TRUE PINT. thank God for the pint!



while there, we chatted with a fine gentleman that thought California was pretty nice but had a lot of (social) stuff he couldn't stomach (we got him drinking sierra nevertheless), griped about flight cancellations with a bunch of new yorkers and watched some young brits order budweiser, laugh at the size of the bottle and grimace at the taste but we weren't near enough to get them drinking sierra... several pints, a couple phone calls and some fantastic meatloaf later, we deemed it time to depart. imagine our surprise when, upon stepping out of doors, we discovered it had snowed, like, two or three inches!

our tracks through the fresh precipitation:


in the end, we were saved from one of the business traveler's worst nightmares (being stuck in BFE for a night for no good reason) by pints of sierra and friendly bar-goers... by the way, when did they start putting advertising on hotel key cards?

happiest weekend on earth!

so, steph and malina planned a massive surprise event for george and i that supervened this past weekend:

DISNEYLAND!


they managed to get us both all the way down there without revealing the secret, no small feat.

en route:


yeah, we roll matching:


if you ever break your leg or something, go to disneyland. wheelchairs HALVE your wait time.


what's better than a surprise trip to disneyland? getting surprised by your friends once you arrive!


then mickey climbed the matterhorn:


and then our brains were almost melted when MORE FRIENDS showed up!


of course, once you're all together, you'd better pin on some banner/flag/patch things:




steph chased the characters all over the park, more on that later...


despite rants against their creative output in recent history, my wife still looooooooooooooves disney deep down in her heart...

happy eggs

crime

we certainly hope Mr. Guman is caught and brought to justice swiftly...

pillow fight

it's a pity my cracked ribs preclude me from participation in contact sports:



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the cracked ribs runaround

here's how it goes down:

play basketball; get tangled up on defense and catch a dude's knee in the ribs as you go to ground; feel pretty sore for about a week; call kaiser to make an appointment when the pain increases and spreads to your back after 10 days; have the advice nurse tell you to go to ER right away in case of complications; go to ER and have them tell you to go over to urgent care in the other building; show up right as that department is taking lunch and wait for an hour; finally see the doctor, explain your symptoms and sit through a brief examination; find out it's "probably fractured, maybe just a contusion" and that an x-ray wouldn't provide any additional information; get advice to avoid contact sports for about 6 weeks and a prescription for really strong advil; congratulations, you just spent 3 hours, mostly waiting, to find out you were pretty much doing the right thing already.

check the heat

listen to this to celebrate the glorious fridayness of today.

then look below at the lady clipping her freaking fingernails on the train. ick.

not jordans

i got some actual work shoes, shocker.

yeah, i'm lazy

instead of actually thinking of anything to say, i'm just gonna share videos for a while, probably.

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