I have a reservation for 5:00

So, yesterday was Mother’s Day. I got my mom a chocolate gift basket-type deal from Hersheys.com. Pretty good chocolate, which included a one pound bar of chocolate with a custom message hand-written on it. Way early in the morning we went to the Mother’s Day brunch at Chandler’s for Chris’s family. That was pretty good, with a hell of a lot of food. My only problem was the one and a half hour maximum seating time, which, thankfully, was loosely enforced. Also, the waffles were a little chewy, rather than light and fluffy.

And then came the attempt to have a nice dinner at Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen. Read on to read more about my mixed feelings about that experience.

To old friends

I guess somebody out there is reading this thing. I just got an e-mail from an old friend at the e-mail address I setup for this blog. I haven’t talked to her very much in the past five years, but I did get a chance to visit with her once while I was still in school at IWU. Anyways, she’s graduating from U of I on May 18th and she’s invited Chris and I down to celebrate her accomplishment.

I'm back

Yeah, I guess I’m still being pretty damn lazy about posting. I’ve just been pretty swamped with stuff. OK, that’s another lie. Honestly, I’ve just been tired and haven’t gotten around to posting anything. Some recent news is that we’ve pretty much narrowed down our wedding photographer search to Grabari Studios and Edward Fox Photography.

Maybe not that photographer

Dee came home yesterday, so after an hour of Dawson’s Creek (laugh all you want), we drove over to her house and visited. One of the things we talked to her about was the two photographers between which we were choosing for the wedding. She took a look at one of the half dozen purple flyers from Grabari’s and exclaimed something along the lines of, “Not them! Anyone but them!”

Another weekend comes to a close

So, it’s Sunday night and

• Friday’s “night at the theater” turned out to be better than I thought it would be
• Vegging on Saturday ended up to be a lot of Vice City action
• Dinner with an old college suitemate was pretty good
• I finally did some of the laundry I’ve been putting off for two or three weeks now
• I didn’t see the Simpsons, and I know I’ll probably get some flack for it at work

Eureka! I'm slow…

OK, so I understand blogging has been around for quite some time now. Hell, I’ve been reading Ars Technica, which is sort of a techie blog created by a few of Harvard‘s graduate students, for almost four years now. And .plan files on *nix systems did pretty much the same thing for years before that. I wonder why I didn’t think to use my blog to scribble notes down for work a few weeks ago when I started it.