skyline

skyline, originally uploaded by pr9000.

So I'm in the Windy City today ... and it's windy. In fact, it's foggy -- it's as if there's a frontal system right over Michigan Avenue. And as I sit it out, in the world's loudest Starbucks (T-Mobile has made me Starbuck's bitch) it's interesting to look out on what used to be "reality" for me.

I visited a company I used to work for, long ago -- then as the IT director, now as someone hoping to win their business. It was nice to take a small trip down memory lane. The company just moved floors, but stayed in the same nice building. It was always incredibly cool to know that our front door had a bird's eye view of the Wrigley Building clock. That was just ... too awesome for words.

I have other appointments in town today, but that one was by far the most exciting. I was very nervous in the cab, transported back 10 years or so, remembering who I was then, and what I've (hopefully) grown to become now. ("Grown" as in "matured," not necessarily as in "gotten wider at the middle")

So enjoy this shot of Chicago, stitched together from a bunch of pictures taken during the final weekend of my time here ... I'd already moved by that point, but came back because my old roommate/best man/best friend was packing up his family for Ohio. Another good friend had left a few months earlier, and for me, it was kind of the "end of an era" (to overuse an already overused cliche).

And that shot was really, really tough to put together, by the way. If only I'd had Photoshop CS 3, or known an incredibly suave salesguy who could have sold it to me. :)