Can you believe, the mayor of Chicago called us at home yesterday? OK fine, it wasn’t actually him, only a pre-recorded message asking us to vote. Everyday, we receive at least a couple phone calls from machines, which has quickly become a pet peeve. A typical call would be like this: (ring) “Hello?” (two second pause…click) “Hi! Don’t hang up! This is a very important…” I hang up. I did get humans a couple times, but once it was the Chicago Police trying to fundraise, which was rather intimidating, and the other time, after I declined to donate, the guy insisted that I should because apparently, I sound like a really nice person. I hung up.

Any day we discover a new asian market in Chicago is always a good day. Today our friend Seunghee introduced us to “Super H-Mart”, a Korean Superstore. I never knew you could buy seafood pancake flour mix. Afterwards, we indulged in a Korean BBQ dinner. We went home feeling very full and smelling like BBQ-ed meat.

Yesterday I picked up my saxophone for the first time in months. I had so little stamina that I got tired after only a few minutes. Then, after talking with a friend about Selmer saxophones (mine is a Super Action 80 Series II), I went online only to find that Conn and Selmer had merged into one company. That’s as weird a combination as Daimler-Chrysler, which, I guess, is not that weird.

Here are a couple photos of our living room for those of you who haven’t been able to visit yet. The furniture you see basically comprises 50% of what we own. Yay for IKEA and antique shops. The couch was a great find on the clearance floor of Macy’s (and barely made it up our elevator) and we were very lucky to inherit our church’s old piano!

We have officially joined the blogging community! Living in Chicago has been great, and we decided we should share more of it. I am slowly starting to understand that computers and the internet aren’t just magic…but it’s all still rather foggy (what’s a server again?). Thankfully Joe can reach back into the recesses of his computer background and make sure things work. I will make sure things look nice.

Welcome to our blog!