As Far As I Can Tell

Three cities, two movies, traffic jams, good food, good talk, barns with birthday messages, mopeds and more.

On Friday night and Saturday morning I was in Chicago. I saw Whale Rider (excellent and recommended), ate delicious food, caught up with Ivo, bought some wonderful books and played the “what’s changed since I’ve been here last” game. It was good to be back, and makes me realize that I’ll probably want to live there again soon. I was toying with NY, but I could see going back to Chicago.

Saturday night we were in Sturgis celebrating my Mom’s 50th birthday and visiting the rest of my family. My brother is back from his cross country western adventure. It seems that everyone is going west this summer. On our way back from dinner we went by an Amish barn my Aunt found in Mendon that happened to have an appropriate birthday message scrawled on it. Super kooky.

Sunday I saw another good movie, Raising Victor Vargas, at the Little Theater and went on a 18 person moped ride. It was good to see new people coming out for the ride.

Today has been spent making things work in JavaScript that normally I’d do with a server side language instead. Data manipulation without a page refresh is slicker, but so much more complicated.

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Ivo

Meredith

Me (to complete the set)

Witness the absurdity of the moment as my mom stands next to a barn where someone has scrawled a birthday greeting to someone with the same name. Exclamation point indeed.