On Saturday, June 24, Chicago Force joined the Greater Chicago Food Depository’s Hunger Walk at Montrose Harbor. This annual event raises money for this city’s food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters, feeding half a million people a year.
Category Archives: Outings
Blast Camp Paintball Volume 1 2006
On Saturday, April 29th, we headed out to Blast Camp!
Whirlyball pics online!
Whirlyball 2006
While most people were out drinking green beer, the cool kids were at Whirlyball in Lombard, IL.
The lighting was not very good for photos, unfortunately. Either they were too dark or out of focus, or both. The video turned out pretty good, though.
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- The game gets started
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- Eric tries to get the edge on Carrie
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- Josh makes a break for the goal
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- Eric on the “D”
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- Josh and Christ decide to fence instead
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- Josh for the block
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- Carrie gets more than the ball
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- He shoots, he scores!
Timothy Zahn Signing
On Thursday, February 23 at 12:30 p.m., Timothy Zahn was signing Outbound Flight at the Borders on State Street.
Blast Camp Paintball
October 8, 2005
‘Nuff said.
OK, OK, maybe there’s more to say. Like it was a bunch of fun. But you knew that. I should say that my still camera gave up the ghost that morning, so I was unable to take regular pictures. And I am too lazy to go through the video and make still captures.
But this year we introduced the “gun cam”, a small camera placed above the barrel of our own DarthGoat’s marker. And Thom takes a header, complete with face-plant-feet-in-the-air. It’s classic.
Kane County Toy Show, June
On Sunday June 25, Black Sun Collectors Club met at the Kane County Toy Show to hunt the bargains.
Midnight Toy Run
As April 1st turned over to April 2nd, it was a time for Star Wars fans to be excited. At midnight, the new toys for Revenge of the Sith would be released. And the fans would go wild. It all started at a Mexican eatery and ended at a Wal-mart. But countless Wal-mart’s, Target’s and Toys R Us’ were visited on the way. There are only a few pictures from this event as we were to busy buying toys otherwise.
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- The calm before the storm
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- Pancakes *****
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- This is totally safe right?
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- I’m sure it’s legal.
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- We will make it legal!
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- Turn right! Turn right!
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- Showing off the haul
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- Toys Aquired
You missed it again, didn’t you?
The last hurrah at Des Plaines Bowl
Karaoke. Second verse, same as the first
Chicago Force met once again at the Blue Frog Bar & Grill to sing it’s heart out. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view) the video tape of this event was, um, un-usable.
But we do have pictures.
Paintball Part Deux
Based on a True Story
We have been having so much fun at paintball that we decided to head out to Indiana for the second time this year. Blast Camp was once again the site of the chaos.
Players only managed to shoot the camera twice this time, both in the same game. Somehow in the Fog of War a 400-pound guy in an orange shirt looks just like the other team…
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- The gang’s all here
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- HawkBat prepares to go into the big, scary building
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- Goat gives the Horns
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- Adventure Bros.
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- Light ’em up!
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- The boys let the girl go first
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- Carrie moves into position
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- Splash one QCJO
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- Number two goes down
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- Carrie didn’t shoot him (but she could have)
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- Imperial troops have entered the base!
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- A little R&R between games
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- Jeff thought paintball was at his house, so he showed up
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- You’ve got a little somethin..oh, it’s a paint chip
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- Hard smokin’, hard drinkin’ paintball chick
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- Our guy
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- Sithman’s friends showed up (even though he didn’t)
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- I’m number 1!
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- Tate holds the bunker
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- The quick bird gets the kill
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- Jeff bravely defends his post
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- “Where’d he go?” “Where’d who go?”
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- Laying down on the job
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- Rushing the Octagon
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- Blue Team storms the Octagon
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- One the lookout for Red Team
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- Double your firepower
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- The last thing you see
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- I still can’t believe that Jeff actually showed up