Robot Dreams

There where two things good about today... The weather was much better than predicted yesterday. And I joined friends from the Evanston Drinking Liberally in the Oct. 27 Chicago Peace march. And there was one bad thing about today... Every public transportation train was a distressing mishap. The attempt to take the Metra train south failed, as the train that would get us on time was canceled because of a derailment (it derailed in the yard). Taking the alternate CTA trains was delayed because they are working on the subway, and hence it's rerouted on the L-line. And on the way back, the Metra now, was delayed without reason for half an hour. But with all that we still managed to enjoy the march from Union Park to Federal Plaza. I'll tease with what has to be the best "no war" sign in the whole march.

The rest of the pictures on the flip side...

I will never really understand how far the universe will go to strike at the least expected, yet most predictable if you have a perverse opinion of the universe, time. Here I was just getting back from the Hawaii vacation, getting back to the usual intermittent work and starting to talk about the ongoing Thot project, since nothing really pressing was going on, and I get called for the possibility of a huge amount of new work. The thing is that I just about rely on such things happening by now. As every time in the past that we try to get back to Thot stuff starts happen that prevents us from working on it. Needless to say I've been stressing out about this new work for the few weeks since then. And now that I get back word from our proposal, I'm even more stressed out. Thinking about the ramifications, and the planning, and much more. But then again I tend work better under stress... Needless to say I'm looking forward to tonights Drinking Liberally, seeing as I can use the drinking to relax a bit from the events so far. With that in mind I leave you with a bit of hilarity from last weeks Drinking Liberally...