Today marks Day 4 of my effort to ride my two-wheeler to work. This week has been Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I love it. What follows are tidbits I’ve seen or discovered while riding.
1) I have a bike lane for roughly 70% of the ride, and cars respect that lane much more than I thought. [...]
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From the Bicycle
[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 [...]
Now My Body Loves Me
Between a concert, class, and stuff to do, I didn’t really have a second chance to ride my bike to work. Until yesterday. I used my Damen/Milwaukee/Halsted/33rd Streets route and it went really well, a bit under an hour each way. I really should time it more precisely and keep track, but it’s definitely much [...]
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)
The last days of my 20s
The last days of my 20s have been filled with family, food and plenty of frivolity. The last days of my 20s have been unforgettable.
In the last days of my 20s, a visit to Chicago’s Little India on Devon Avenue and poking around in wonderous fabric shops has served to heighten my over a decade-long [...]
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 [...]
