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Friday night: First Friday at Old Town School. Amy was doing yet another performance there, so I went on over with the camera. There's a video, which may or may not be posted online after we review it for obscenities.

Saturday: Amy's big birthday party! House full of guests, table full of food. Amy got the whole thing catered by Cafe Too, a place that helps homeless and poor people get training in the food service industry. Dessert was obtained from the always amazing Bleeding Heart Bakery. Everybody ate a lot of food, and there was still plenty left afterwards.

Late Saturday night, my dad showed up after being delayed about 12 hours due to a big load of snow. He's just staying over this weekend and heading out Monday morning, so we just offered to put him up for a couple of nights.

Sunday was the REALLY busy day. In the morning, a brunch party featuring Amy's sister & bro-in-law, Amy's niece, and my dad. In the afternoon, a walk around Rogers Park with my dad (who is apparently into geocaching these days), and a trip downtown to see Millennium Park and the new modern art wing of the Art Institute (both obviously well worth your time, of course). Back to home, a quick dinner of leftovers from the party, and then off to see the Sunday night edition of Too Much Light at the Neo-Futurarium. Dad gives all of these attractions a big thumbs up.

And that's why I was so busy this weekend.

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Hope you get what you want from the birthday fairy!

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"Disco in Frisco"
Wild Man Fischer

A pretty creepy song from the Wild Man's early years, back when he was still singing "new kinds of songs for a dime" on the streets of California. Get down and DISCO DOWN!

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Today's a primary election in Illinois, and we voted in a new location, since the fire house we used to go to was closed up. We were in a church rec room this time around. No line at all; the counter on the optical scanner machine was around 10, and that was after the polls had been open an hour.

Apparently Illinois is seeing low turnout today, which would explain why the above photo is currently the only new item in this Flickr pool of images of the "I voted" receipts we get in Chicago. Apparently either everybody completely forgot about it, or no other Flickr users have voted today. Either one is just as likely, I suppose.

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