Ooh, another watch hound--what do you have your eye on?
Complete luck.
I happened to be visiting Chicago and wanted to eat at Frontera Grill. That happens to be near Obama's neighborhood and the restaurant of one of his favorite chefs (Rick Bayless from multiple PBS cooking shows such as Mexico: one plate at a time). I didn't know it at the time, but Obama was in town. He was going to a private room in Rick Bayless's fancier restaurant next door.
I was given a crappy seat in the basement of Frontera Grill (I had already waited in line for quite a while and just missed the cutoff for the main floor, or I had to wait a couple more hours to try for the second seating upstairs). Just as the appetizers hit, a bunch of secret security people came in the room and looked around. I figured it was some sting going on. But then shortly later Obama walks in. He was going through the basement to avoid the crowd in the main level. He shook everyone's hands in the room, and went on towards his evening meal. When I left, the entire block was swarming with cops and they were frisking down anyone coming near the place.
I wouldn't have had that experience eating dinner at home.
have you seen my studio? :sneaky:
i guess i have been pretty crazy with piano costs in the past, though it has been a while
spent 6500$ on my digital piano about 8 years ago, and in the past 2 years paid another 500$ for VSTs
Why Costco doesn't offer this, I'll never now.
College Savings: 4% (med-school, law school, or Engineering: or daddy gets a new car!)
Anything look particularly off?
my windmill battery experiment
libs destroyed the canadian economy
Bought two Floyd albums and a NIN on Saturday. Had lunch with DSotM playing in front of me.I buy vinyl records to 'have' them, even if I already own the CD or other digital version of the album. It's an addiction for sure that I see no end in sight for. Records cost $20-$50 each new while some collectible ones get easily into the hundred$.
Bought two Floyd albums and a NIN on Saturday. Had lunch with DSotM playing in front of me.
paying for babysitters to get out and play them
When I worked in retail, it was always kind of shocking to see just how far people lived beyond their means...I'd have people open their wallets to pull out their card to pay and they'd have ten to twenty credit cards in there.
I'd much rather shake the US presidents hand
I dropped a little over 160k cash on 10 acres for my windmill battery experiment, then the libs destroyed the canadian (specifically alberta) economy I guess it's going to be just dirt for 4 more years.