Fire vs Revolution

I had a solid fun-filled weekend. Really. I had a blowout Friday & Saturday. I attended the TiECon 2007 event at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago. They started with a couple of speeches and a discussion of the main topic between Howard Tullman and Glen Tullman. Two Chicago area entrepreneurs. It was funny because the Tullmans kept hitting each other with funny comments while back tracking their lives (as much as they could in an hour) as entrepreneurs for us to learn from. Then there were 4 hours of panel discussions on relevant topics. It was nice to hear the panelists talk, however, I was surprised by the questions the audience asked. Many questions ought to have been in finishing school for entrepreneurs or just in school. Not that I am an expert already. But it felt too straightforward. Anyway, that conference was not the blowout part (am not that old yet!). Later, I caught up with a friend and hit Duke of Perth in the north side. Thats one hot scotch bar. I got one of their samplers. The name was - get ready - "The Kilt Warmer". I told the waitress, I really gotta have that right now. (It did not sound as cheap as it sounds while I am writing this!). They had selections across the board in all types of hues and blends of scotch. I like scotch and I think I could have all the scotch I wanted there. I am surely going to visit that place again. And still later, we caught up with another friend and hit Kingston Mines. Thats a really hot blues bar. That night, the groups playing were real good. We drank and did music, then drank again and then heard more music. It was great! Now, thats still not the blowout part! The best part of the weekend was that I got to see the Chicago Fire play against New England Revolution on Saturday night! Wow! It was very good. Fire made two goals against New England's one. What made it even better was that I hooked up with a group that plays soccer by Montrose harbor. These guys had hooked up with the Fire team to sell "50/50 Raffle" tickets at the stadium. So, I showed up at the stadium 1:30 hours before the game began with the whole family and they gave me some singles, one roll of tickets and a yellow vest (not to forget the ID card to get me in and out of the stadium and a placard about the charity which the raffle was about). I went around the stadium holding up the placard shouting like a peanut vendor. "Raffle Tickets" "Raffle Tickets". It was fun! All this was followed with a Sunday morning at the "Frontier Park" at Naperville. They have 12 Soccer grounds there! Imagine that. I've decided to field a team in Spring - either a kids team or an adult team. We will see how that goes.