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Saturday, October 13th, 2007

My new 2007 Toyota 4RunnerWell clearly I’ve been a blogging slacker this past summer. Some was due to other priorities and a busy schedule, but mostly I was just too lazy or didn’t feel like writing.

So lets see whats been going on… Bought a new suv… Yes… For those of you that know me my 1994 Jeep “The Mystery Machine” Cherokee is being retired. It didn’t quit on me but it had over 200,000 miles on it and it was time to move on. I bit the bullet and bought a new 2007 Toyota 4 Runner as seen above. I like it and hopefully it will serve me well like the Jeep did for almost 12 yrs… Good memories with the Jeep…

Spent the summer doing a lot of shooting (the photography kind) and am very behind on post-processing it all. More to come on that end.

The Cubbies had a nice run in the baseball regular season winning the NL Central Division. I ended up going to a few more games in their last regular season homestand which was a good time. I even somehow got tickets to all 3 possible NLCS playoff games at Wrigley (which is kinda like winning a small lottery), only to see them get swept out of the NLDS by Arizona. Thus those games were never played. Figures I guess… It’s too bad really because this was a good year to make a run to the World Series. But considering last season they were the worst team in the NL, I’ll take this one as a good first step.

So with that I hope to be blogging a little more often.

Chicago Auto Show

Monday, February 20th, 2006

IMG_0055.JPGI just returned from the Chicago Auto Show. It’s the world’s largest consumer attended auto show. This Ford Shelby Mustang was named Best in Show. My favorite by far though there were plenty in the running. Click here or on the picture to see my Flickr photostream of the shots I took there today.