Aside from some minor details, the moving process is over.  I'm exhausted, bruised and sore but we're in.

Moving to a new house is interesting.  Besides the whole "where should I put all my stuff?" and "Why on God's green earth did I pack that?" issues, there is the altering of the morning routine.  Removing the changes that come with co-habitation (5am alarm.  Every day for the rest of my life.),  my routine is strangely different.  No longer can I tumble down the stairs, flick on the TV and computer and check my email while watching the weather with my toothbrush in my hand.  My old bathroom had LOS to my computer desk and aux TV.  No more.  Oh well, change is good.

Top Five Places You Really Don't Want To Be On A Sunny Sunday Afternoon in Chicago:

1. Oak Brook Costco
2. Bolingbrook Ikea
3. Bolingbrook Target
4. Bolingbrook Lowes
5. Anywhere Bolingbrook really

I've got nothing but the finest assortment of stale links collected over the past five days or so.  I'll be more on my game this week.  Probably.

Birthday Notes:  Drmorley is now the ripe old age of 32.  Other people that share his birthday are:  Herve Villechaize, Joyce DeWitt, Timothy McVeigh, 7th Heaven's Barry Watson and of course, the king, Michael Moore. (Thanks Faems)

I don't know... stuff?

• This is what the Internet was invented for.  Forget communication in wake of a nuclear holocaust (coming soon to a country near you!), these nets were made for putting stupid 1337 speak captions on pictures of pets.  Oh Fridgecat, what have you wrought?  Say what you will, Fridgecat always gives me the lulz.  Oh my god, what's happening to me?
• As Drmorley pointed out the other day, the Simpsons just turned twenty.  Damn.  Here's an easy Simpson's quiz to test your knowledge.  8 of 10 for me.  Challengers?
• Frank's (no relation) Red Hot Sauce is the cure for what ails ya.  Here's a reciepe for buffalo wing sandwiches.
• One more reason not to visit Chicago's suburbs:  Exploding Mannequins.  Don't worry, Kim Cattral was unharmed.
• Surprise:  Phone sex workers aren't that into it.
• Your editor needs to bone up on Economist's style guide. 
• Cranky analyst not down with the Xbox 360

Fortune:

I drink to make other people interesting. -- George Jean Nathan