I’m not a big fan of shopping and therefore have a love/hate relationship with the mall.  I love the fact that it has just about anything I might need, but hate the traffic, the parking and the people.  Now that I’m working so close by, it doesn’t seem like such a hassle.  I went in today to pick up a couple of birthday gifts.  It was almost painless.  Note:  My brother, Craig worked on this mall as it was being constructed (many, many) years ago.  The contractor was E.W. Hahn whom my father worked for as well.