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Had a chance to go back home for the Labor Day weekend. Great weather on Saturday but nothing but rain on Sunday and Monday. The Friday weather forecast had it as sunny weather all weekend. After thousands of mathematical models, countless hours of supercomputer time, and the dissertations of hundreds of doctoral meteorologists, no one is able to accurately predict the weather. How embarrassing...

I was driving home the other night and chanced upon a jazz tune which had a very "elevator music" sound to it. But then I had to stop and realize that I can't remember when the last time I heard music in an elevator. I assume at one time, elevators did actually have music playing in them???

After much research, study, analysis, and experimentation, I have discerned one more of life's Universal Truths.

Istanbul was our first stop on our honeymoon. At this point, it was still sort of extended wedding time, though. Ahu's friend Julie accompanied us and we had a second wedding reception there.

We went to Locarno after Stresa. Locarno is actually in Switzerland but is close to the border of Italy and they speak Italian there. We did a lot of hiking, including one trip to the top of a short mountain.

I apologize to any faithful readers who have not gotten to see much actual play-by-play commentary lately like I normally write here. I am in the process of bulk-loading the site with archive content so I can test some new features in a few days. I am trying to get a list of all the camping gear, etc. that I own so that I can make checklists for various trips I am planning. Also, Ahu and I have tons of pictures that I need to get online and so I am posting all these image galleries in bulk also. I should have most of this archive content up in a week or so.

I have found a geek movie class at ThinkGeek.com! Take a look at thisOfficeSpace legend!

This last weekend was beautiful in Chicago. The temperature was around 80 degrees during the day and dropped to the 60s at night. Ahu and I spent most of our time by the pool reading and getting some sunshine. We went to the Chicago Botanic Garden on Sunday. We went to the shady area by the Rose Garden and had ice cream and read our books. Saturday we watched the movie Amelie, which is the first movie we received as part of our Netflix membership. So far, we are really pleased with the Netflix service. Hopefully we will never have to go to Blockbuster again.

I upgraded the Romance Life radio station on Live365.com today. In the first day of being live, without the promotional features of a premium station, 9 different users stumbled onto the station. Two of those set Romance Life Radio as a Favorite and one of them gave the station a 5 star rating!!!

I just had to drop a quick note to express my utter satisfaction with Amazon.com! Several months ago I preordered the latest Harry Potter book. When I ordered it, I was still living in the Loop. After I moved, I forgot to update my address. Well, I forgot until a few days before the book was supposed to be released. I went online and changed my order. I had requested the normal shipping to minimize cost. But lo and behold, my book arrived on Saturday morning, just in time to take with me to the pool! Amazon had upgraded my shipping to FedEx Overnight Saturday delivery for FREE!!! Instead of waiting in all of those crazy lines to get the new book, Amazon had it in my hands on the day it became available, for a very reasonable price, and with free overnight shipping. That's what makes customers like me so loyal to Amazon.com.