Today was a Crazy Day.

Today I biked downtown for free hugs with Positive Focus out by the Water Tower Place on Pearson St. and Michigan Ave.  Free hugging was amazing and awesome.  I felt like I was on top of the world.  I got a lot of hugs and actually made a number of pretty cool and interesting friends.  I also made a lot of people's day which was an amazing feeling.  I really need to get back into free hugging more often!!
Next I walked back to my bike and I was sitting there getting ready to go home when I met another couple of people and they were going to Navy Pier and I wasn't doing anything or have any plans so I decided to hang with them and go to Navy Pier with them.  After getting lost a couple of times and running into a couple of dead ends we made our way to Navy Pier.  When we got there I locked up my bike at the entrance and we went to walk around.
I then saw that they had a tie shop so I stopped by and said that I make duct tape tie's and stuff and that I was interested in maybe selling my duct tape ties there or selling them some so that they could resell them or something.  So we walked around Navy Pier for about 45 minutes and when we got back to the entrance I looked around for my bike and it wasn't there!!!!
I was looking around for it and I must have had a very bewildered and crazy look on my face coupled with my bright yellow biking jacket alerted the police and security guards who called me over and asked me if the bike that they had in their possession was mine.  It was.  They then went on to explain that right after I got there a guy cut my bike lock and tried to steal it but the brilliance of the Navy Pier Security Staff and the Chicago Police Department they caught the guy!!! Just as I was going back to look for my bike, my bike was being returned to Navy Pier to be processed and stored.  Luckily I was there and was able to both identify that the bike was mine and be able to fill out the paperwork and return it back home safe and sound.  I was very lucky that they caught the guy and that my bike was returned to me!! I was told that it was very rare for them to catch the thief and it must have had something to do with the fact that I was spreading peace love and happiness though giving away free hugs earlier today.  I should probably get my bike registered with the city of Chicago now... Thank you so much Navy Pier Security and Chicago Police Department!!!

Creation Madness!

Lately I have been working on organizing my room and house as well as trying to get all of my duct tape business stuff under control and organized.  So far I have been making a lot of wallets and ties.  I also revamped my room into a sort of creation studio type place (pictured above).   I am also working on getting all of my products up to sell online so that I hopefully will be able to make some money and then I can spend more time working on giving away free hugs and all the greatness that comes with that.
Now that I am going to be in Chicago for about a month and the weather is getting better I think that I am going to go Free Hugging downtown more often.  I am going to create my duct tape free hugs bag soon that I am going to have when I free hug and it's going to be awesome!! I'll post pictures once it is made.  Just to warn you... its going to be totally epic!
David