Chicago, Birthday’s and HostingCon2007

I have never been to Chicago. I Grew up a surfer in Play Del Rey California, so we did not travel much. I took my wife to this event…Well it was a tactical move as it was her birthday that weekend. I was invited to speak on Security and Trust Marks by the Hacker Safe Company, ScanAlert.

We were told that we hit some of the best weather Chicago has seen in the summer in a long time. We did all the tourist things. I think the thing that got me the most were the buildings and the architecture, absolutely incredible!!. We learned in depth about the history on the floods and fires and, the Cubs, all very cool. Did not go to a game, The Cubs were not in town

As for my wife of 21 years, Gayle, whom I still love very much, we did lots of fun stuff for her birthday celebration.

One fun thing was dinner on the 95th floor of the Hancock building, the second tallest building, to the Sears building. Crystal clear night, it was almost surreal.

Matt, our tech, said I took photos like a Japanese Tourist..LOL
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Anyway, we stayed 4 days. My talk at HostingCon was a success. I tried to win a wee for my son at one of the booths. I was on the boards but did not get to get back in time to move up. We were too busy site seeing.

On the middle of the last day in town we got to see some summertime kids singing groups perform in Millennium park. It was very cool and they were very good.