I spent the last week in Chicago for the National Plastics Exposition, the Annual SPE technical conference, and running some switch grass on the TG-MS st our local office. If you haven't ever been to the NPE, it is amazing. The entire McCormick Convention center is filled with polymer manufacturing and processing equipment. Add to that beautiful days, a decent if disorganized conference, good friends and hot jazz and it almost made up for the horror of Chicago pizza. For those spared the experience, think of tomato sauce and cheese on toast. And that was what they called thin crust.

Looking out my window across the lake at Canada



Downtown at dusk



and after dark, ice cream trucks! Who knew?