Let’s pick up with Saturday morning, then. After the bike ride, Paul and I headed back into the city and unloaded the bikes. Dan joined us and we drove up to Waukegan for the game. We found the field without a problem. After seeing how many people steviemaxwell had to play (enough and then some), I was content to play the spectator, relaxing on the sidelines and enjoying the beautiful day. Takaza acquitted himself well, I thought, and everyone had a pretty good time, even if the final score was, well, a massacre. After the game, Dan, linnaeus and I drove over to Cub Foods to pick up some items for the cookout, while posicat and tybis went to Sam’s Club for burgers and dogs and such. Once we got back to the park, there was a bit of a wait while everything got sorted out. datahawk, moryssa, and ashawley tried to spirit us away to a hockey game, but we declined and instead spent the next few hours chatting with friends. The drive back to the city was uneventful and we went to bed very shortly after getting home (after showering to remove all the sunscreen, though!).

On Sunday I loafed around the apartment like the lazy bum I am. Once Dan got up, though, we drove out to Schaumburg for the monthly Midwest FurFest staff meeting. It was a lightly-attended meeting (unsurprising, and typical for this time of year), though a lot of good stuff got discussed. Afterwards, we adjourned to Fuddruckers, where steviemaxwell and serenthia joined us for hyooj tasty burgers. A quick stop by Best Buy on the way home netted us the Scrubs Season 1 DVD (woohoo!). We finished out the evening watching the Scrubs pilot plus some fo the DVD extras. Man, I love that show.

Yesterday? Wake up, commute, work, commute, flop on the couch. Yay. Not much to say there. Instead, let’s talk about stuff that amuses me.

I love Cooking for Engineers. It’s a cooking blog that appeals to the Alton Brown/Harold McGee/Shirley Corriher food geeks out there. One brilliant innovation is the distillation of recipes down to a simple, easy-to-read table that gives you most of what you need to know at a glance, as with this recipe:

Sure, it won’t displace the usual way recipes are written, but for me this is a good tool for reference while I’m in the middle of cooking.

I added the syndicated feed to that to my Friends Page, to go along with the two Chicago-centric blogs that I follow: Chicagoist and Gaper’s Block. The latter is a new addition for me and I find that it has more wide-ranging and entertaining commentary.

Oh, and finally: if you’re going to make a fan-film about Star Wars on the cheap, making light sabers by filling fluorescent light bulb tubes with gasoline seems like a great idea! I mean, what could possibly go wrong?