Wow, I honestly can’t believe it’s been a month since my last post.
Ok, now that I have that out of the way, I’ll tell you what I’ve been doing. I’ve been wondering how the hell I posted every day for an entire month. I’m completely baffled by that one. Who saw that coming? Certainly not me. I had myself out on day 3 at the office pool. I thought I was a lock because nobody at the office knows about the blog or the pool for me to fail at blogging for an entire month after just 3 days. I lost all of my savings on that bet… I thought it was a gimmie given that I was the only one in the pool, and it was based on my own actions, therefore the fix should have been in… I really shouldn’t gamble. That’s the lesson I learned.
However, given that I lost the bet to myself, I found myself with a nice lump sum of money, so I did what anyone would do and I blew the whole thing on a week long trip to Chicago to visit my girlfriend. It was practically free money, right?
I had two main goals when visiting my girlfriend: 1. Hang out with my girlfriend, and 2. See a large and deadly lizard.
Let me just say, if those are your two main goals in life, then Chicago is the place for you. The Shedd Aquarium currently has the Komodo Dragon on display, and let me tell you, I’ve never seen a more threatening lizard in my life. Below I’ve embedded a 13 hour video that I took of the deadly beast during my visit this past weekend. Pay close attention, at exactly 11 hours 13 minutes and 42 seconds, the Dragon blinks and it’s arguably the most terrifying blink I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve modified the video so that you can’t fast forward or rewind. I don’t want you to skip through anything, and furthermore, I don’t want you to be able to just rewind to see the good parts over again. This is a once in a lifetime experience, and I want you to feel like you were actually there yourself. The video should also play automatically, so there’s no need to ask absurd questions like, “Where is the play button?” or, “How come this doesn’t actually look like a video but more like a regular picture?”
I assume that’s going to take up most of your time, so I’ll just let you enjoy the majesty of a 300-pound lizard.
I will leave you with this: Upon visiting the Shedd Aquarium, it was obvious to me that there was some serious fish loving going on by this John G. Shedd guy, so I offer up my own personal advertisement for the Shedd Aquarium…
The John G. Shedd Aquarium. It’s about a man and his love of fish.
This is the actual statute right outside the entrance to the aquarium. I can’t believe people are ok with this.
