This weekend we went to Orland Park just outside of Chicago to spend Jocelyn’s birthday at her mother’s place. Saturday afternoon we made our way down south. We left Milwaukee just before noon and the weather was 45 and cloudy. By the time we got to the ‘burbs of Chicago the temp was in the high 60s and sunny. It was a beautiful spring day and what better way to spend the day than removing viruses and repairing computers. It seems Jocelyn’s mother’s boyfriend’s (sister’s, cousin’s, acquaintance’s) computer had some nasty viruses that needed eradicating. Never fear, Rautech (which has been redesigned) to the rescue. I thought this was going to be your everyday run of the mill removal but this was the worst virus I have ever come across. Many of the discussion boards suggested nuking the hard drive and starting from scratch. I didn’t want to take the easy way out so I spent hours plugging away at the darn thing. I really tried everything. At about three I took a break and we went over to see the new house a couple miles away that they’re moving into June. It’s very nice and has a Frank Lloyd Wright feel to it. After that we went back to the other house and I continued to plug away at the virus. I took another hour break for some spaghetti bake and vino but when that was done back to the dungeon I went. I spent the rest of the night working away and at midnight, almost twelve hours later I finally fixed the problem! I could’ve have done the reformat but this was definitely a personal/pride thing and I kicked that virus’ butt!

Sunday was another beautiful day and I had no viruses to remove, only a wireless network card to install. So I worked on that a bit and then went to the park with the Picl girls and enjoyed the 80 degree weather. The park had these rickety busted up concrete stairs that are used to climb the hill of a toboggan run. I did these stairs about five times and I had enough. I shouldn’t have run them but that is no excuse, I’m just plain weak. I had enough and went and sat on the picnic table and waited for the others to finish up. J and her sister stopped and we played aerobie/Frisbee. I found out how a dog feels when he’s playing fetch with his owner because the aerobie never really flew at me but more above and to the left of me. The problem was my legs didn’t work from those steps so getting the stupid thing was a chore. After J’s mom finish doing the steps 20 times we headed back and showered up for dinner. Before we went to dinner we stopped at a really nice restaurant/bar called The Canoe Club. We stopped there for a beer and to see the very large and very cool shark tank that they had as the bar back. After that we went to a Japanese steak house. It was one of those places where they chopped the food up in front of you and toss it around. Our chef was great and all the food was superb. From the time the chef arrived we were eating something. It started with soup, then salad, fried rice, vegetables, shrimp app, my steak and scallops, mushrooms, and then finally green tea ice cream and it was all great. I worked my chopsticks flawlessly and looked like Ryan Chopstickhands throughout dinner. When dinner was over we had Jocelyn’s birthday cake and some rum drinks back at the house. We spent the night listening to music and enjoying some warm weather. We took off about 8 and got home safe and sound. A happy mother’s day to all the mothers out there!