Sunday, September 06, 2009

Chicago



It's six in the morning in my hotel room. I am heading back home in a few minutes. I had a bitter sweet trip. It sucks that I couldn't bring Martha and the kids. She had to take the reigns all by herself.

I worked really long days here at the Motorola plant, but Friday night and yesterday I got to see Chicago.

My Friend Kamran and I visited a Turkish Restaurant in North Chicago, not far from Wrigley Field. We had a few DogHead Fish Beers. We watched the movie Infinity and had good conversation. The next day we went down to the University of Chicago in Hyde Park. I saw the gorgeous campus. The buildings look like they were built in the Middle Ages, for a minute you lose your sense of place, and forget that you are in the Midwest. I saw the historic site where Fermi did the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. I ate at Medici's a local place where Obama was known to visit. We walked around the quad, and the botanical gardens and then headed to Jimmy's a locally famous dive bar. It was a good day.


School



Wireless Networks this semester. Looks Interesting.

iPhone


I have been spending a lot of time teaching myself Objective-C and the Cocoa environment. I plan on getting into the iPhone Apps business. We'll see how that goes.

Anyway, I got a plane to catch. Be good to each other.

J.V.

1 comment:

Loralee Choate said...

I totally loved Chicago when I visited there for BlogHer in July. I wasn't expecting it to be so beautiful, clean and fabulous.

I regret that I didn't get to see more of it, but I am planning to go back in a few years to attend the huge food festival.

I'm sad that Martha and the kids couldn't be with you. (I can't believe how old they are now!! Wild!)