No Apologies

The great things about Saturdays is I can work out in the mornings. On weekdays I'm always rushing to get to work, so it's hard for me to knock it out in the morning like I did today. Anyways, had a much needed eye appointment today. It's an eye doctor/glasses place, but you'd think it's a salon or something by how hip and fashionable everyone looks.

Always great to walk in a place looking all sweaty (Chicago decided to be one of those misty rain days) and gross only to be greeted by a couple of young cute girls. Anyways, as expected my eyes have slightly worsened in the last year, but she thought that I should be at the peak of where I'm going to be for near sidedness for hopefully at least the next 10 years. I have to go back in a few days to pick up my contact prescription (and she put me on the extra anti-dry eyes ones since I NEED that), normally I wouldn't be thrilled about this - but now it means I get to see my new cute friends =)

I was then supposed to go to the art museum with my friend Mandy, but she bailed because of the weather - that's okay though because I didn't really feel like getting wet again. So since I had a few hours to kill, I watched this documentary called War Photographer. In college I had to give a presentation on Robert Capa. I had no idea who he was prior to that assignment and for those who don't know he was basically to war photojournalism as the beatles were to music - they have awards and everything named after him. Anyways, this documentary was on a different guy (he's actually won the robert capa award along with a bunch of others), and wow, it's one of those amazingly fascinating, yet heart-wrenching type of things. Also reminds me just how god awful I am at photography...anyways...

So all day today I knew what my blip was going to be, I even brought my camera, only to turn it on to see "no internal memory," I was like NOOOO I left the memory card in my monitor at home. My friend who I brought though reminded me that they generally have internal memory, well it doesn't even have enough to hold 1 picture at the regular 10MegaPixel, but I turned it down to 3 and was able to snap 1. So that's my blip, I went and saw Chris Rock today and he was awesome. His opening act...Mario something, he's from Chicago, he was great, he was a very kind of low energy - just relies on the material type of comics and I generally like that type the most (Chris Rock is really energetic and he's of course great too, but I generally prefer the more mellow style).

The show lasted a LONG time, he was on on for what seemed like 90 minutes (all good), only a few times was I like okay speed this bit up, but the audience loved every second of it. It was also ALL new materials so I was very happy about that (If you have ever watched Chris from the late 80s on SNL he does the same jokes in his acts 10 years later like in Bigger & Blacker - pretty disappointing, even though I still love that dvd). Lots of current stuff too, like on Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton, and of course all the classic topics like interracial dating, getting women, the n word, marriage and sex. And we had great seats (I lowered the resolution even more and was able to snap this awful pic), dead dead center and not far back at all - I got them on some guy from eBay for only $40 above face value so I was happy about that. However, even with those great seats, everything still would have been blurry had it not been for my new contacts today - so nice to go from blurry to seeing everything perfectly (and kind of scary too). After we went to Weber Grill, which is a great place - sounds cheesy, but it's very nice. I've been to the one in Oakbrook before and remember really liking it. I had the filet mignon tonight and it was good, but I wouldn't recommend it there (I think the chicken and burgers and all that stuff is where they shine).

My backup plan was to take pictures of my tickets, but I didn't snap this until just after midnight =(
Then I got to talk to my friend Kristy about her date tonight, what a great day today was =)