Hump the Hump!After a pretty boring drive from Chicago to Burlington, I met up with Jason to explore his 48th and 49th states (Vermont and Maine) - I should probably figure out how to link to his site here: [no link yet] and on Thursday we climbed the second highest peak in Vermont, which granted, was only about 4200 feet high. Whatever, it was a good hike and offered some great views of Lake Champlain, New York and Vermont and probably New Hampshire as well. Aft...

Go Cubs Go!On the first weekday of our collective non-working lives, Bethany and I headed up to the lovely city of Milwaukee to sample some of the lakeside town's offerings: namely, beer, encased meats, and mediocre baseball (though to be fair, the Cubs, and not the Brewers have been displaying the mediocre baseball this year).  First we headed up to the Sprecher Brewery, where we took an informative tour (fact: ales are top fermented and lagers and are ...

I'm sitting here about to leave work on my final day, and I can only think of the "Summer of George" Seinfeld episode, where George gets severance from the Yankees and has the summer off. Well, I don't have severance, and didn't actually even get fired, nor do I work for the Yankees, but the parallel seems apt. Plus I really like Seinfeld. But I hate the Yankees. I'd love to get a job in their front office and secretly work from the insi...