I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's another drive to work.

Okay, so today, I just got back from a week-long trip to Chicago.

So for those who've been listening along, you know that Rachel is off to college.

For privacy reasons, I'm not going to say what college she's going to, but she chose a college in Chicago.

So we needed to go drop off Rachel. And when we're there, we thought we'd see Chicago.

So Rachel and I had gone last, in the winter, to go see the college when she was trying to figure

out where she wanted to go. But other than that trip, none of my family had ever been to

Chicago before. Now, I had been, and a lot of today is going to talk about my many times in

Chicago, most of which were about magic. My very, very first trip to Chicago, first couple actually,

were not at all magic related. They were when I was a kid. My mom has a twin

sister named Ellen, and Ellen for a while lived in Chicago, and we visited her there once or

twice. Then she moved to Milwaukee, and we visited her multiple times in Milwaukee, and a couple

of the times, Chicago was like an hour for Milwaukee. So in my youth, I was in and a couple of the times we ended... Chicago's like an hour for Milwaukee.

So, in my youth, I was in Chicago a bunch of times.

I have some vague memories of it just because I was a bit young.

But anyway, my first few times Chicago were before Magic existed.

My first time in Chicago, post-magic, because

Wizards sent me there, there's a thing called the ABA, which ends for the American

Bookseller Association, I believe. And it's all about if you want to sell books, it's a convention

all about, you know, all the publishers and stuff gather. And

magic was doing things with books. And so, this is the very early days where I was going

to every convention they would let me go to. And I'm not sure how in the world I end up at

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