October 6 Meter Reading

My gas meter is in the far corner of my basement. Because we are rarely home when the meter reader comes around, I have to read the meter and enter the numbers online. Today I got an e-mail from NiCor saying I must have read the meter incorrectly. The numbers I sent them are too big an increase over last month. Imagine that, they warned me I was going to be over billed. They suggested I take a picture and sent it to them.(Probably because they think I'm either too stupid or too blind to read the meter correctly) Since I have to contort my constantly growing fat ass into something resembling the letter S to read the meter, I decided to take a picture of it. I found my mistake right away and e-mailed the picture to NiCor. Just another warning sign that I'm getting closer and closer to a dirt nap.

October 5 Cleaning The Garage

I got off work early today. We have been pretty slow lately. So I waited for the Comcast tech to show up to replace my defective modem. Then he takes one look at it and tells me the modem is working fine, it's just in standby. I felt like a schmuck. He pressed the standby button and it worked right away. I felt like such a loser, I couldn't even use the computer for awhile as punishment to myself. So I went outside and cleaned up the yard and the garage. Then I checked my e-mails for the first time in five days and guess what? There was nothing that important in over 100 e-mails. I guess not being online for almost a week isn't such a bad thing.

October 4 A Real Quarterback

Finally! The Bears have a real quarterback. I never thought it would happen in my lifetime. Jay Cutler can actually scramble out of the pocket, throw accurately on the run and take a big hit when all else fails. This picture is him hurtling over a Lion defensive player to score a touchdown. It's fun to watch the Bears again.

October 3 Another Fun Saturday Night

This time I'm not joking. It was a rocking good time with lots of hot young girls. I DJ'd the wedding of Jessica & Dan. Jess works with Chrissy at the zoo. It was way up north and I had to hump all my equipment up 3 flights of stairs, one piece at a time. The country club had no ramps and the very small elevator was down a narrow hallway. Besides that, it was a great time. Once again, the dance floor was packed from the beginning. I met a bunch of cool people. Chrissy took a few pictures so I can post them here.

 I just finished setting up. I needed a break before putting my suit on.

 

Trying to find the perfect song to play next 

The dance floor early in the night. The two little girls at the bottom couldn't wait to start dancing. They loved the flashing disco lights. The little blonde girl at the bottom was still dancing at midnight in her pajamas.

October 2 Impressive Job

Chicago was the first city eliminated by the IOC today. I am not gloating. I wanted the Olympics, I just didn't want Mayor Daley and his corrupt political machine to be in charge. I did want the jobs that would have been created and the infrastructure that supposedly would have been improved. The joke around here is that an organization as corrupt as the IOC didn't want to share all that graft with the just as corrupt Chicago Democratic Machine. I was working today at a Mobil station in Des Plaines. There was a unbelievably huge tarp over the entire water tower across the street. The tarp covered the whole tower all the way to the ground. All of a sudden the bottom half was dropped to the ground with a cable and pulley system. It looks like while they are spray painting it, the tarp is up. When they finish, the drop it. I thought it was rather impressive.

October 1 Douche Bag Of The Week

Tomorrow is the day that Chicago finds out if it gets the 2016 Summer Olympics. Therefore today is a good day to make Mayor Daley the douche bag of the week. He hasn't done anything specific today to earn this honor. It is a lifetime achievement award for him. He once said he had no interest in the Olympics. But recent events, namely the never ending string of corruption trials involving just about everyone close to him, have forced him to change his mind. My conclusion is he needed a distraction, so he decided to bid for the Olympics. As per usual with anything tied to Daley, the amount of misleading information about who was paying for the Olympics was mind boggling. It started out as not one tax dollar will be spent and ended up as the city of Chicago will guarantee to cover any costs. The city has a huge budget shortage, a public transit system in disrepair, Cook county has the highest sales tax rate in the country, the fire & police departments haven't had a contract with the city for years and 97 Chicago Public school kids have been murdered so far this year. Yes, that number is 97. So forgive me if I don't trust Mayor Daley to do the right thing with all that Olympic money.

September 30 The Queen Arrives Home

The dogs and I went to Midway Airport to pick up the Queen. As we waited in the car phone lot, I noticed a bunch of bikers congregating in the lot. It was about 50 degrees so it seemed strange to me that bikers were out tonight. Then I saw the Patriot Guard decals on some of the motorcycles.  I thought they were there to escort a soldier's body  back home. Chrissy called and said there was a full military band and lots of soldiers waiting near the luggage pick up area for some WWII veterans that were passing through the airport. She said there was a huge crowd and she was given a flag by one of the kids there to greet the veterans. I saw the color guard as I drove up to the terminal. I thought it was a pretty cool thing to do for the World War II veterans. The dogs were happy to see her for about five minutes, then they were done with her. I checked online and the Patriot Guard was there to escort the veterans back home.