They might have made a commerical like this: Hotel room in New Orleans: $500 Flight to New Orleans: $250 Meeting Mark Mullins’ twin brother, Bruce: Priceless There really are some things that money just can’t buy.

After a bit of sleep (Mike and Lisa get up way too early), we enjoyed our tasty complementary hotel breakfast, and prepared to head out. We walked up Magazine Street. It was very quiet. Lisa then took us on a tour of the Garden District and we hit a cemetary. There was VooDoo BBQ for [...]

Day 1 is over and it was a great first day. Tracy and I enjoyed a good lunch and a luxurious afternoon adjusting to the hotel and unpacking. Lisa and Mike arrived around 4:30 and after we all changed and primped for no good reason beyond we are on vacation. Then we went to Napolean [...]

Tracy and I are all set up and unpacked in our suite at the Marriott Residence Inn. No travel problems. I even got from CID to ORD 20 minutes early! And I saw a woman traveling with a baby monkey. Seriously. It was so small. The only frightening moment came when we arrived at the [...]

you gotta go see the Mardi Gras. So says the song. I’m off in less than 12 hours. More like 9 hours now. I’m in total freak out packing mode. Watch this space for updates!

Sales chick in Junior’s dept: No one has said anything all day about my sassy flip! I guess my hair looks really bad. It didn’t look that bad. But it wasn’t sassy.

I spent my lunch hour running around town going into multiple shoe stores and leaving empty-handed. *sigh* I need new shoes. I need new shoes for my trip to New Orleans. My trip is in 2 weeks and 1 day. You live and die on your feet in NOLA. The last time I went in [...]

This was hands-down my favorite Super Bowl commerical. You may have missed it because it didn’t air until the third quarter, but it made me smile and brought me general joy for the rest of the game. MacGyver Returns

Oh wait, that’s not until next month. Oscar post still forthcoming. Instead I’d like to thank my aforementioned super geek who henceforth be granted the title of Super Dave for going above and beyond the call of duty getting my new system up and running. I know you want all the geeky details, so here [...]