Forty Candles

They say it's my birthday...Four-0!

Today I met my blogpal Citymouse for a delightful lunch in downtown Chicago- I will let her fill you in on the details, as I am paying to blog at a cafe- there is nothing like a running meter to induce writer's block!
I must say that it's reassuring to note that all ( both) of my real-life meetings with blogpals have been with people who were just like their blogs.

My brother had to attend a hard-drinking work party last night ( he actually has a real job) so he went home early today and is sacked out at home -I, on the other hand, am wired off my ass on coffee and happy human feelings... so back to my second home, the Cafe.

No Funkadelic tonight...oh well.

I'll let the twin sleep a while and then I'll make him go out to eat. I feel bad because I seem to have unlimited energy when I am separated from my job- and his job seems to drain him.
I think I'm losing weight on vacation just from the sheer amount of walking I have done. It feels good to be active all day, it really does. I've walked 35,000 miles (it seems), been to three museums and countless parks;I've also read three boooks so far- Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenriech, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis by William Self and Freakonomics by Steven Levitt. The Self book was sorta like mental chewing gum, but the other two are very great andinsightful reading- but now is not the time for book reviews.
Gotta say- there is something supremely calming about sitting under a tree in front of a Calder and reading for a few hours. I could do that everyday and not grow bored, I think.

Everyday is a new learning experience- when I can post pix I will get into some details...

Yesterday I spent a indeterminate amount of time inside a mirror-walled walk-in kaliedoscope at the Field Museum- it was a lot like a really good acid trip...actually I was tripping wicked hard at the time - but no illegal drugs were used. I'm leaving it at that for now- that's a whole 'nother post!
Besides, I'm forty now and I'm too old for that stuff- but yesterday I was still 39!