Bloggin? Where's teh pics?

Lost my trusty camera.
My awesome loner DSLR camera is loned out to someone else. So, no camera at all. No pix on my blog.

Updates?
Got into a car accident yesterday. Silly rear-ender. Not my fault. Typical stuff. But, I was banged up pretty bad. Well, I'm really exaggerating. I did bump my forehead pretty hard on something.. don't remember what tho.

What?!? Did I put the seatbelts on just for show?!? hmph!

Funny.. I have the offender's license plate embossed into my bumper. (Damn, wish I had a CAMERA!!!!!) Let's see him hit and run. hehe

Saw the doctors... I think he prescribed ice cream and some solid hours in front of my Playstation or something like that. This may go on for days. I'm thinking ....weeks. hehe

Bark Lee Tong

Baby's first time in the store. Seemed to be a non-traumatic experience for her. Dad has a lot of memories in this place.

In fact, I remember...
That we often get customers of all walks of life. Some interesting ones are the ones that keep their money in 'special' places. Like socks and bras. uh...... DISGUSTING!!!! Especially, when it's Chicago summer. They'll just stand there, take off their shoes and then socks.. and then you'll get a stack of dirty bills. I have to take the smelly and sweaty bills off of them. There was one time, it was so sweaty that the bills were stuck together.. you know how that is. She had to peel them off of each other right in front of me. uh.. yea.

Sometimes, I just think it's not worth it.

How I never had a pair of gloves by the cash register at all times.. I have no idea.

YUCK!

Well.. at least I would just give those nasty bills to the next customer. I made sure of that.

Brookfield Zoo

The hatching of a Sephieasaurus Rex!








This piece of elephant dung was impressive. But, I do have to say... not as impressive as the one I unloaded a few weeks ago. Now THAT was truely impressive. It took 5 flushes! With 2 courtesy fushes. Yea... I was proud.

Birthday 08

As most people know, I'm not one to celebrate my birthdays. Never did care much for it. This time is a bit different. I'm in Chicago. Friends and family all chipped in to have some fun.

Started out on the strike of midnight. Fulton Lounge. Seemed like a trendy little bar with a good mix of people. Friends insisted trying to get me 'wasted'. It's not hard to achieve that. After 4 shooters, I was already buzzed. So, we hit the club, La Passage. Jim's friend was the host of the party.. got us in. Even though I was not in 'dress code'. Nice guy. People tried to get me bday drinks... but, I was far into it.. I wouldn't handle another. I was done for.

It was just like partying like it was 1999. Seriously. It was. Except..I'm old. And my body is 2008. Still, it was a blast.

Hungover for the duration of the day.

Plans for the day changed like the wind. Waterpark nixed. Too tired for the zoo. So, we decided to just have some simple family fun with a kiddie pool right outside the house. Turned out it was the best thing we could've done. We were just too old. haha

Kohan's for dinner. Japanese/Korean mix. Not bad. Funny watching our 'new' waiter though.

Yea.. I'm still 33.

May, Al, Jim.. you guys rock. You know how to make a guy feel old. Still can't believe we're all married with children!

A little bit of culture

Millenium Park:
Thems cool beans...



Museum of Art Institute of Chicago.

Yes, this is her future!

Taste of Chicago

Something Lina wanted to do for as long as I can remember. Go to the Taste of Chicago. Today was that day.
Got access to an awesome parking pass. (Thanks Ben!) Wasn't hot, wasn't too sunny, wasn't cold, wasn't TOO big a crowd(I remember it being a lot worse), and most importantly... Persephanie wasn't TOO cranky. It was awesome.

For 72 tickets @ $48.00:
Got a taste for:
- 2 giant BBQ turkey drumsticks
- 1 platter of seafood tempura
- 1 boneless BBQ rib sandwich
- 2 small taste of Rainbow ice cream
- 1 full scoop of Rainbow ice cream in a waffle cone
- 1 Eli's turtle cheesecake
- 1 Eli's strawberry cheesecake
- 1 Italian ice (mango and blue raspberry)

To walk off the food, a trip to Buckingham Fountain. Seems fitting this time around.. "Married with children"

Then for dinner we went to Joy Yee's. Awesome.