Shazam! Birthday magic!

It's a scant 5 days until Gusser's birthday! I'm excited - there's likely to be Indian food thrown into the procession someplace, and I'm a big fan of it. What will we do? Where will we go? I'm going to take a look in a few moments and see if I can't find the coolest place ever. Red Robin. A fantastic chain restaurant that serves both beer and burgers...
Alright, she would kill me, so I'll be avoiding Red Robin and try and find a nice place to have a steak. One year the restaurant we were in lost power, and all our meals were free. That was the best Gussers birthday ever...
Michael out

Two thousand what?

What a beautiful season... the sky is steel gray, the ground a sandy brown. Everywhere we look there are Wafflehouse restaurants and high-rise hotels. That's right, we're in Nashville TN. By an airport.
When I look at a map of the United States I often assume that there is a linear range of temperature from North to South. Using that skewed logic one could guess that if it's 80 degrees in Florida, and 30 degrees in Wisconsin, then Illinois should be in the 40's, Kentucky in the 50's, Tennessee in the 60's, Georgia in the 70's ect. Dumb weather pattern notions aside, I was shocked to have driven 7 and a half hours south and found it to be just as cold here as it was in Chicago.
I'm attempting to get back into the wide world of oil painting! I got a travel easel for Christmas, and have it all set up. I've even got a canvas primed and ready to go. Now I've got to figure out what to paint...