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Daily Photo: Say It With Concrete
The last days of our engagement
j. and I made pasta e broccoli last night for dinner and I commented to him as he served me a steaming hot portion in our beautiful white pasta bowls, “This is the last time we’ll be making this dish together as an unmarried couple.” And after I said it, I felt both a [...]
[Naming Rights Available] City of Chicago
I guess this is the way things work now. You sell off naming rights or local ownership, sell nostalgia down the river, all to make a few more bucks. I know sometimes it helps provide funds for valuable things. But where does it end?
It started so innocently when the old Chicago Stadium, home of the [...]
My Eyes Feel Great but My Legs Hate Me
I’ve been talking about doing two things for quite a while; I finally did both. Yes, one week ago today, I got contact lenses. And yesterday, I rode my bike to work.
OK, so if you’ve known me at all from about 4th grade up until a week ago, you know me as somebody who wears [...]
Certainly Not Customer Friendly
On my Chicago Card Plus from the CTA it says:
On-Time
Clean
Safe
Friendly
As regular riders of the El know, the CTA standard of “clean” is pretty low if they consider their cars clean. Safe might be true, but I’m not so sure most people are convinced. On-Time is kind of dicey, particularly if you’re not in the rush [...]
Bean’s Away!
Drumroll please….
… The Bean is (finally) done!
In case there aren’t enough pictures already, I’m sure rIAm and I will be headed to Millenium Park to take more.
And, of course, visit the site where I proposed nearly 10 months ago. (which is also plenty photographed; note the ones by rIAm)
Re-sealable storage bag mystery or how to keep the landfill from filling up
My family, particularly my grandparents, have been into the three Rs — reduce, reuse, recycle — long before it was made a popular way to be green by environmentalists and modern recylcling programs. It’s just what they did in their home country of Italy, not because their town had a program in place or because [...]
I’m Glad This is Normal
Around work we have a nice tradition of going out for peoples’ birthdays. Whoever’s day it is picks the place. Generally it’s near (or near enough) to work and we have a group of oft-used places, which are tasty, but no longer inspired choices. So I try to think different; we have a pretty adventurous [...]
