I was up in Chicago for the first part of this week, leaving on Monday morning and coming back on Wednesday evening.

Remind me the never fly after Easter again. The airport was the busiest I’ve seen it in a long while. I was surprised about how many non-business people were flying. The economy may be in the toilet, but people are still moving around. Even leaving on Wednesday out of Midway was a lot busier than normal, with everyone in front of me going to Vegas. How odd.

Flight back was okay, at least I had room around me. On the down side, there were about 5 pre-schoolers on the flight who all decided to start screaming at the same time. From the gate to 10,000 feet — screaming. All of descent — screaming. Scream scream scream. You’d think their organs were getting ripped out by a pair of pliers. Maybe their ears wouldn’t hurt so fucking much if they stopped screaming for a minute and swallowed.

Austin was mostly cloudy yesterday, and rainy today. Very dark. On the bright side, we desperately need rain down here (so many areas outside of town have been declared drought disaster areas). It’s pouring like Puerto Rico right now, so maybe we’ll get a good soak.

Evelyn has been pulling out more boxes from storage and working on projects. Last week she made a “on the phone” flashing light for Mike. He can switch it on at his desk and the flashing light tells others that he’s busy. Kind of like a single-color version of my office status light. Personally, I think that everone needs a status light for their desk. It would prevent a lot of unnecessary and annoying interupptions. This week she is working on a “Northern Lights” project which should be quite cool.

UPDATE:
Here’s the photo of the “on the phone” flashing light I made for Mike. ~Evelyn

On the phone flash