January 26, 2004

monday musings

Greetings, all. I hope the weekend was a good one.

Jennifer celebrated her birthday and I somehow negected to get off the couch. Formal and public (is this public?) appologies, my friend.

Saturday, said natal day, Trish had an audition in South Bend. We decided to make a day of it. There were however a few hitches in our plans. First, we left early, but not as early as we had hoped. It takes a little over two hours to get there from our place in Chicago. We gave ourselves just enough time. Then we ran into this snow storm in Gary, IN. Lake effect blizzards are cool. Then we realized, as we got off at the South Bend exit, that there was this whole time change issue that we did not consider. Doh! So, um, Trish was an hour and fifteen minutes late for her audition. Yay. She was a mightily frustrated.

We got home around 5pm or so, Chicago time. I collapsed.

All in all, a grand day. I just wish I had the wherewithall to get off the couch and to Evanston to Jen's birthday.

In other news, my birthday is tomorrow. 34. Wah.

Oh. This is cool, too.



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Posted by tripp at January 26, 2004 09:50 AM
Comments

Happy B-day, bro!!

Posted by: Clifton D. Healy at January 26, 2004 09:58 AM

D'oh! A day early. (I re-read your post.)

Posted by: Clifton D. Healy at January 26, 2004 09:59 AM

Don't give it a second thought! Sounds like you had an exhausting day. And with the weather too...what a day! Thanks for the mention and hope you have a great day tomorrow.

Posted by: Jennifer at January 26, 2004 10:58 AM

Tripp -- Hoosierland is not uniform when it comes to time.

The burbs around Chicago are on Central Time. The burbs around Cincinnati are always on Eastern Time.

The rest of Indiana is on Eastern time in the winter and (effectively) Central Daylight in the summer. This of course is very confusing, but after living here for four years, I've concluded that they like this particular specialness.

Your lake effect blizzard got the rest of us in Indiana.

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Posted by: Don Temples at January 26, 2004 01:32 PM

Thanks for the insight, Don. I wish I had bothered to think about it even for a minute. Of course, that would have meant leaving Chicago at about 6am. Yay.

Posted by: Tripp at January 26, 2004 01:37 PM