Not much to report from the weekend. Things were generally quiet, and that wasn’t a bad thing. On Saturday we hung out and kept meaning to get out to the aforementioned computer show, but gave up when it became too late. I was hoping to head out and do something in the evening, so Dan decided that we were going to Xios for dinner. Yummy! I really enjoyed their moussaka. Afterwards we went to a new pool/darts place that was quite nice – not too smoky, nice equipment, and not too loud either.

After a couple of games of darts and a few rounds of pool (good gods, do I suck at pool), we were pretty much done. I wish that I could say I was rarin’ to go rushing out and dance the night away or some such, but the sad thing is that it was 9 PM, and I was getting tired and was ready to go home. Man, that sucks. Dan suggested we stop by Blockbuster to rent a movie, and I was reminded yet again of why we never go there anymore and don’t even have a membership – crappy movies, assloads of the crappiest movies and one or two copies of movies I might actually want to see, annoying, ignorant people, and rugrats running unfettered throughout the place. Although we found a couple of likely candidates, in the end we elected just to leave.

On Sunday we really meant to get out to the computer show, but just never found the drive to go. We spent the day instead working on Midwest FurFest stuff, working on website stuff, sending nagging e-mails, etc. We watched the first episode of the Denis Leary show on FX, Rescue Me. We were extremely impressed, and we immediately added a season pass for it onto our Tivo. I highly recommend this show, although it is pretty intense viewing. (A funny thing that I noticed – really, with the exception of saying f*ck and showing skin, there’s pretty much no difference between shows on FX and stuff on HBO or Showtime).

For dinner we made cheeseburgers and oven fries. Cooks Illustrated had a fantastic recipe for oven fries and they came out wonderfully – soft and creamy in the middle crisp and tasty on the outside. I can post the recipe if anyone is interested. Anyway, after dinner we worked on con stuff a bit more, watched some Tivo, then went off to bed a bit early.

Today hasn’t been nearly as productive as I would have liked. There was a chance that I might have an interview in Chicago on Wednesday, but that didn’t come to pass. I will definitely be up there next week, one way or another. With Dan applying to positions up there, I’m thinking that in the absence of movement on some other nibbles I’ve had, I’m planning on not leaving Chicago until I have a job nailed down, at whatever pay rate I can get. We’ve been getting a pounding from heavy rain with thunderstorm after thunderstorm courtesy of Tropical Storm Alex, and that’s been bringing me down a bit too. Ah well – just have to keep on trying.