I'm speaking at the Creative Transitions conference at the end of the week in Milwaukee, so when an offer came through to teach a class for the first part of the week, I thought it'd be great: I could spend the entire week here, teaching the first half and conferencing the second.

Well, I'm not going to get into the details here, but let's just say that the scheduling of the class was FUBAR (although not by me). So it turned out that I have two days to kill in Milwaukee.

Downtown is very cool. There are a lot of cool buildings. The first touristy thing I saw was this statue of Gertie the Duck. It seems that during World War II, the city was about to tear down a bridge and found this duck and its babies under it. They saved the ducks, and the story spread around, somehow inspiring the troops overseas.

I continued on down to the lakefront, where I shot a few pictures of the Milwaukee Art Museum, named Time's Building of the Year in 2001. Most days, they actually open the panels on the roof, making it look like a bird taking off. Unfortunately, they were doing some sort of maintenance, so I didn't get to see it open. Still, very cool building.

Nearby was the Milwaukee War Memorial with a cool statue of Abraham Lincoln.

Later in the afternoon, I went to Miller Park to see the Brewers take on the Nationals. This makes my third MLB game this year, in the third city and third ballpark. Miller Park is nice (although Pac Bell is still nicer), but I had a great seat - right down the third base line.

The game was good: the Brewers won, and it was nice to be in a ballpark that was actually full of fans, unlike in Tampa and Miami. But the best part was finally getting to see, live, the famous sausage race.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do tomorrow.