Postcard from Chicago

Greetings from the lobby of the Sheraton Towers in Chicago where there's free wireless.  I'm up here with the Raccoons, Jr. for a few days of  wanton expenditure and goofing off.  It started out as a plan for me to meet up with a friend from ALA to see Los Lobos, but I decided to bring the girls up, since we've not had a trip together in a few years.  We were blessed with a day nice enough to walk to Navy Pier from the hotel.  Don't know that we'll be so lucky tomorrow, as there was a dampness and chill in the air on our walk back.  We wandered around, had lunch, and saw Robots at the IMAX theater.  After wanting to see an IMAX film for several years, I slept through much of my first. The movie was fun, I was just really pooped.

Tomorrow, the plan is to head to the Science and Industry Museum for the Body Worlds exhibit. Juniorette is less than thrilled, but when I told her there was also an exhibit on games, Game On, she thought that sounded much less gag-inducing.  I've always wanted to go to the International Museum of Surgical History, but probably won't make it this trip.

The human interest story for today is that I saw a woman totally chew out a colleague in the Sheraton lobby.  He bounced up to her, all friendly and  joking, asking her what she was doing, when she said she was writing him a nasty email because she was angry and humiliated and so on.  He listened politely, then slunk away.  Yikes!

Comments

[Ankah]

The surgical museum is way cool, although some of the items in it are rather creepy, like, you'd expect to see them in an international museum of rusty tools and hacksaws, instead. Eek!

The kitties are cute, sweet, and psycho. Someone had a little too much fun with an entire roll of toilet paper sometime Friday afternoon (not me, but I'm not sure exactly who. But I can take a wild guess). I think they miss their mamas.