Memnison Journal

Joe Cool and his faithful Scandinavian sidekick, Woodchuck, at a Kennedy Space Center photo thingy.   Memorial Day weekend, 2007.

From April through September, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry is having a big Harry Potter Exhibition…tickets just started going on sale. I know a mom and two little girls who would like to go…and a whole ton of fans.

Longtime readers will recall that I’m a great fan of the Dutch-American author Hendrik Willem Van Loon, a taste that I got from my mom and her brother, my uncle.   There’s an online exhibit at the Ohio State University site of Van Loon’s illustrations (crude, but charming) for his best-known work, The Story of Mankind.   [...]

It was very nice to have Kurt and John out here visiting; I just wish it could have been longer.
There were plenty of screwups in the way, however.  Friday - that you already read about.  Saturday we got a late start, and ended up spending the vast majority of it on the road into Chicago…we [...]

The Montgomery Inn at the Boathouse was interesting.  A friend from work and I often see each other at these shindigs and go out for dinner, and she wasn’t interested in my chili hunt, so we went off to the Inn, which is along the river and has a heck of a view of the [...]