{"id":129,"date":"2006-05-21T14:09:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T14:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2006\/05\/21\/nathans-visit-and-spamalot\/"},"modified":"2006-05-21T14:09:40","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T14:09:40","slug":"nathans-visit-and-spamalot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2006\/05\/21\/nathans-visit-and-spamalot\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan&#8217;s visit and Spamalot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-129\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family:Helvetica;\">Nathan came in this weekend &#8211; he got here Friday night.  Aviva was going to drive out with me to pick him up but she had saved a stray dog, she was in heat and in our yard, Basil was going nuts (even &#8220;fixed&#8221; (why do we say a dog is fixed when they&#8217;ve been neutered?) he still tried to hump the other dog), so she stayed home and waited for a friend that adopts out animals to come over and take the little dog away (we&#8217;re going to pay the dog&#8217;s vet bills and hopefully someone will adopt her (maybe we will after she&#8217;s fixed and done with her hormone thing)).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Helvetica;\">I picked Nathan up and we went to Woodfield Mall in Schaumberg, but amazingly we didn&#8217;t buy anything!  Dinner was at a big restaurant named Ram &#8211; the food was very good.  Then it was back home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Helvetica;\">Saturday we got up and went shopping &#8211; I needed to return a KVM switch to Microcenter, so Nathan tagged along and we bought a few things.  We ended up at Uncle Fun, one of our favorite places in Chicago.  We went home, played video games (Nathan also showed me Half Life 2 &#8211; that&#8217;s a very cool game!), changed clothes and went out to dinner at<br \/>\nBen Pao.  The food there is good (a little sweeter than most Chinese I&#8217;ve had). Then Aviva dropped us by the Palace Theatre so we could see Spamalot.  Spamalot is a musical based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  The play was lots of fun!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:Helvetica;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/playbill.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"288\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2007\/01\/14\/enterprise-architecture-as-strategy-creating-a-foundation-for-business-execution\/foundationforexecution\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/foundationforexecution.jpg?fit=500%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,426\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"foundationforexecution\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/foundationforexecution.jpg?fit=500%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-288 colorbox-129\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/playbill.jpg?resize=193%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ticket1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"290\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2007\/01\/14\/enterprise-architecture-as-strategy-creating-a-foundation-for-business-execution\/typesofgrowth\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/typesofgrowth.jpg?fit=500%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,398\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"typesofgrowth\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/typesofgrowth.jpg?fit=500%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-290 colorbox-129\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ticket1.jpg?resize=300%2C102\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family:Helvetica;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:Helvetica;\">Unfortunately, all fun things end and I took Nathan back to his mom Sunday morning so they could drive home.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-129\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 129);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-129\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-129\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan came in this weekend &#8211; he got here Friday night. 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