God’s Dominion

First of all, there you go Wendy. Not a single reply to my request for people to post if they’re reading my site. By the way, I replied to your comment, so you can click on comments and see your comment as well as my reply. Now, on to my real post.

This weekend I had the opportunity to walk from Union Station to the Adler Planetarium (through Grant Park) and walk from Millennium Park to Navy Pier. The one thing I noticed is that Chicago, for a city that size (roughly 3 million people), has a lot of nice parks and biking/walking/running paths. It was really nice to go to Grant Park and walk around and sit next to Buckingham Fountain. The walk along Lake Michigan from there to the planetarium was nice, as well. There were a lot of people enjoying the nice weather.

Sunday I went to Millennium Park for the first time and there were a lot of people there. People were having picnics and playing frisbee. There was some capoeira demonstration going on. Children were playing in the fountain under the watchful eye of the images of the two huge heads. As we walked to Navy Pier (quite a walk, by the way), we once again ended up walking along Lake Michigan while many Chicagoans enjoyed the not-as-nice, but still nice weather.

I think it was this weekend that I really realized how much better Chicago is than L.A. Six Flags might be smaller and I may not have easy access to Disneyland, Universal Studios, Sea World, six foot waves, Vegas, Frisco, and Mexico, but my day-to-day living is so much better out here. Even when the weather drops to 20 and I’m sipping hot chocolate in front of my fireplace, I don’t think I’ll ever regret finally moving back home.

I’m sorry I missed Isabella’s visit. By the way, I really like that name (maybe I’ll name my daughter that…just kidding!). Anyway, I suppose from usage stats there may be more than one reader so I’ll post the question yet again…if you’re reading my site, please add a comment below. As long as the only comment I receive are from Wendy, I’ll assume she’s my only reader (you don’t have to post, Wendy).

Anyway, as I was driving in to work today, I ended up behind a minivan. Remember that, it was a minivan. There was a Gary Lang bumper sticker on the back (car dealership in McHenry). I thought it was really funny because the bumper sticker said, “Sport Trucks by Gary Lang”. When did a minivan become a sport truck?

Sorry I didn’t post sooner, but I’ve been really busy at work and with Charles here, I don’t usually have time to post at home, either. That’s all for now. I have plenty more I want to post (like that series I never wrote), so keep checking back.

Okay, I’m finally back. Since, as far as I know, only Wendy reads my site, I’m not going to go into detail about what happened (since I already told you). Suffice it to say that the server crashed and getting my site up and running was the least of my concerns. I lost all my old posts, so I’ll have to start all over. I removed the forum since nobody was using it anyway. I will have to reload the pictures. I have to clean up the blog first. Since Charles is out here, I won’t have much time to work on it over the next few weeks, but I hope to have the blog up and working soon. The pics will have to wait a little bit. There are still a lot of pics I want to put up there in addition to what was there before, but I have to finish my office. Just for you, Wendy, I’m going to put up the pics I took of Elijah at the beach. I’m putting a server with an external hard drive in along with an online backup solution. That way I’ll be able to access my pictures while sitting on my bed watching television (as soon as I get another laptop) and will be much more motivated to work on the pics (you know, when I don’t have to sit in the office by myself doing it ). Well, that’s all for now. Keep checking back for updates!