Anthony Rants

We've been back from vacation for awhile now, but I've been having trouble getting back into the swing of things at work. In a little less than a month, Anna will be graduating from law school (watch your email for the announcement!), and we are in a little bit of a scramble getting the house picked up. It is amazing how much yard work there is to do after a long winter. Not to mention beer related chores getting all the beers ready for Anna's graduation party. I have finalized the lineup, but will keep it secret for another couple of weeks :-p

A weekend or two ago, my parents (and Nathan too!) were here visiting on their way back to Colorado and we had a really good time. Since they were taking the train back from Chicago, we stayed up there for the weekend visiting Shedd Aquarium and Goose Island Clybourn. Nathan is really growing up fast, you can look through some of my recent pictures for proof.

Anna and I were awakened by something interesting around 4:45 this morning... a loud rumbling noise! At first I thought a tree was falling on our house and then I thought maybe it was the wind... well, it was neither. It turned out to be the earthquake I'm sure everyone (by now) has heard so much about. No damage, but a little unsettling nonetheless. Then, as I am sitting up in the 5th floor in my office at work, an aftershock hits and sends the whole building into a swaying motion, now that was really unsettling. Hopefully that is the end of earthquakes for another couple years.

Little else is going on in Champaign. We recently purchased Rock Band for the Xbox and had a bunch of people over to 'rock' with us. It was a lot of fun, kind of like karaoke, but with controllers :) Hopefully we can expand our band during Anna's graduation party to include some of our out of town guests too. I'll also have to look through my pictures and see if I captured any entertaining moments of Matt and Kate (Matt on the drums and Kate on the mic) rocking out. Stay tuned for those.