Well, despite what I originally thought, I was able to get online...although I'm not going anywhere near the Starwood forum. Also, at 60 cents a minute here at the Sheraton's business center, I'm not too sure how many times I'll come back to check this thread, so here goes for now...

Had a great time at Zia's with ElmhurstNick, Sweet Willie, bseller, and our surprise guests. Also a terrific lunch at Flat Top with the regular lunch gang. The trip to the far west suburbs was also interesting, if unfruitful. Made it downtown today at 1:30 thinking, okay the Cubs play at 2:20 so if I hurry...well, stupid me for not noticing it was 2:20 Eastern time that Yahoo was referring to. So, now I have a ticket for Sunday afternoon. I did watch the game on tv and it was a terrific come-from-behind-in-the-bottom-of-the-9th win for the Cubbies. ^

I'm pretty much going to relax this evening, I think. If someone wants to come by the Sheraton downtown and chat, call me from the lobby. Tomorrow I'm thinking about doing a sightseeing boat cruise, vespers at St. George, dinner with meducate and cawhite, and then thought I'd go down to the Shedd Aquarium to watch the floats and fireworks for Venice Night...unless of course someone is up for a poker game. We talked about that briefly at lunch on Thursday at Flat Top, but someone would have to provide the poker chips.

William