Sorry Jill...

Jill, from my favorite blog that 95% of you can't read because she won't let you, has told me that my last update was boring. I will attempt to be better.

Again, I am in a quest to think about next summer's vacation plans. We have a tentative thought process (I hesitate to use the word plan, because that implies formality, and we're way too far away to think about that) of doing Vegas to Dallas. As in, fly to Vegas, do a weekend with my brothers to celebrate their 21st, and then drive through Arizona to see some peeps, hit Albequerqe to see some of J's peeps, and then on to Dallas to see her fam. That would be a hell of a week, but I think a pretty fun one. If there is anything else that I'm missing, I'll be happy to listen to other ideas.

I'm doing Vegas in 2011 in some way, regardless. With all my talk of poker (Sorry, Jill), I have to get in a few tournaments, and some cash games. I feel I'm ready to at least give it a shot. Right?

Julia and I will also be attending the Illini games in New York City in November. This is extremely exciting for me, as I'll get to run through the bowels of Madison Square Garden. This is going to be spectacular. The only other thing I'll need to do before quitting is hit Wrigley Field once. That means I'll have the following major arenas under my belt:
MSG
Rose Bowl
Soldier Field
United Center
Kohl in Madison
Alamodome
Superdome
RCA Dome
Edward Jones Dome

Well...that's a really short list, because I don't want to put a ton of time in to it right now. But that's pretty good.

Last weekend was extraordinarily busy for me. Two soccer games, a very long football experience, two birthday gatherings with family, work...I think from Thursday at 3 until Sunday at 4, I only was at home to sleep or eat. That was it. But it was a great experience all around. Had a great dinner with mom and J at Milo's, watched an Illini freshman score 4 goals on Friday, got up close and personal with Terrell Pryor's jock on Saturday, followed by watching Kool and at least 3 members of his OG gang put on a show with my Dad and co., and then another soccer game, which was witnessed by J, and the Cappas as well. Not bad. Lots of stuff!

Birthdays are definitely different nowadays. Just more appropriately a chance to celebrate the wonderful friends and family you have in your life.

Another way to tell you're old: Couples dinners. Weird, but fun.

Things that I have coming up in the next couple of weeks: A weekend (mostly) off. Midnight Madness. My Aunt Sue's wedding. A Crackmonkey party (to remember). Micki and Stacey's annual Halloween extravaganza. Yikes.

Also, I am regretting that I'm not going to be able to attend the wedding of my friends Amber and Matt in Chicago. The night before is Midnight Madness, and I have a game on the 16th as well. I guess that's the nature of my business, but it still sucks.

Had a nice conversation with the Postmaster General of Champaign today. Some of the local postmasters were upset with something that we reported last Thursday. Obviously, since it was a national story about the raising of postal rates, I had just copied and pasted something from the Associated Press. Unfortunately, it wasn't 100% accurate. So he wanted to come and explain what it actually was. It was probably the nicest complaint I've ever received, so I was happy about that. You'd be shocked at the number of people who call and are extremely nasty, because they didn't like the way something was reported, whether they're correct or not.

I think that is all for today.