Dito
Shared on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 09:53I'm back from my little jaunt to Chicago. We had a damned good time.
Friday: White Castles, the local Irish pub. Nearly perfect. Except for the humidity. Have I only been gone 3 years? How did I put up with this for the previous 35 years? God, that was awful. I typically don't complain about the weather, since it's out of my control, but this was nasty.
My buddy and I realized that we're getting older, and just not up for the back-to-back nights of heavy drinking like we used to do. Furthermore, while all bars and restaurants in Colorado became non-smoking last year, this hasn't happened yet in Illinois. The result? I woke up Saturday morning, not hung over, yet still feeling awful. Didn't take long to realize it was the secondhand smoke. Clogged sinuses, heavy chest, stinky clothes. Ugh.
A little breakfast at an old high school-era hangout, then it was time to see The Simpsons. We agreed on a 3-star rating. Some truly hilarious moments, but others seemed to wander off-topic and run a little slow. We double-featured with Die Hard IV ("Just Die Already"), thereby spending most of the hateful heat-filled day hiding in the air conditioning.
Then, a little old-school PS2 gaming. Once we got tired of making up obscure HORSE words in Tony Hawk 4, we popped in Aggressive Inline, a game we both recalled enjoying. We must have recalled incorrectly. Or perhaps we got spoiled. What a weird game. It's a very blatant Hawk ripoff, with a funky control scheme, a soundtrack that seems to have no more than 6 songs, and some unimpressive animations. The level design isn't bad; I recall wishing we could import our Tony Hawk skaters and boards into those levels. I guess we understand why there wasn't a sequel.
My buddy from Chicago is headed west sometime later this fall. Fall in Colorado is gorgeous. We have non-smoking bars. And the 360 has some killer games. Should be a kick-ass time.
Friday: White Castles, the local Irish pub. Nearly perfect. Except for the humidity. Have I only been gone 3 years? How did I put up with this for the previous 35 years? God, that was awful. I typically don't complain about the weather, since it's out of my control, but this was nasty.
My buddy and I realized that we're getting older, and just not up for the back-to-back nights of heavy drinking like we used to do. Furthermore, while all bars and restaurants in Colorado became non-smoking last year, this hasn't happened yet in Illinois. The result? I woke up Saturday morning, not hung over, yet still feeling awful. Didn't take long to realize it was the secondhand smoke. Clogged sinuses, heavy chest, stinky clothes. Ugh.
A little breakfast at an old high school-era hangout, then it was time to see The Simpsons. We agreed on a 3-star rating. Some truly hilarious moments, but others seemed to wander off-topic and run a little slow. We double-featured with Die Hard IV ("Just Die Already"), thereby spending most of the hateful heat-filled day hiding in the air conditioning.
Then, a little old-school PS2 gaming. Once we got tired of making up obscure HORSE words in Tony Hawk 4, we popped in Aggressive Inline, a game we both recalled enjoying. We must have recalled incorrectly. Or perhaps we got spoiled. What a weird game. It's a very blatant Hawk ripoff, with a funky control scheme, a soundtrack that seems to have no more than 6 songs, and some unimpressive animations. The level design isn't bad; I recall wishing we could import our Tony Hawk skaters and boards into those levels. I guess we understand why there wasn't a sequel.
My buddy from Chicago is headed west sometime later this fall. Fall in Colorado is gorgeous. We have non-smoking bars. And the 360 has some killer games. Should be a kick-ass time.
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