Posted in Gardening, Urban Life, tagged party, summer on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Summer goes by at warp speed here in Chicago. Once the weather starts to warm a bit, the pace of outdoor social activities and events works up to a frenzied pace pretty quickly. Here it is the end of June already and we are in the thick of it.
Yesterday I had my pick of all [...]
Posted in Gardening, Urban Life, tagged Gardening, roses on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, this past week was great if you’re a plant. We’ve had rain and high humidity nearly every day for the past week. While there’s been no need to water the garden, it has been difficult to do general maintenance chores like weeding when it’s this wet and generally icky outside.
My garden is filling out [...]
Posted in Urban Life, tagged bread, Chicago, chocolate, commuting on June 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There’s this chocolate factory just west of the Loop (business district) in Chicago. Every once in a while — if the wind is just right and they’re working on a fresh batch — the aroma of chocolate envelops you as you walk across the river from the commuter train station. I think it smells like baking [...]
Posted in Chickens, Gardening, Urban Life on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s been quite a week for us!
The extra long holiday weekend allowed us to keep up with the usual chores and fit in some extra fun. So, we took a road trip out to visit with Andrew and Misty of Geek.Farm.Life podcast fame. We went out for an enormous brunch, made cream, butter, and bread [...]
Posted in Knitting, Urban Life, Vacations and Travel, tagged Chinatown, coffee, Jamie Kennedy, The Beaches, Toronto on May 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We weren’t up early on Saturday morning. No, all that beer made us a bit…sluggish…the next morning. So, we got a late start on our trek to the eastern parts of Toronto.
We took the Queen streetcar and got off in Leslieville for brunch and the continuation of our yarn crawl.
I don’t recall this as a [...]
Posted in Knitting, Urban Life, Vacations and Travel, tagged Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, ROM, Bata Shoe Museum, Kensington Market on May 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It was easy to be a bit nostalgic about Toronto. But, as Rachael astutely asked, “Are you nostaligic about the city or about being 20?” I’d have to say: both. Definitely both.
As I predicted, Rachael’s 6:30 PM flight out of O’Hare was delayed, so I felt entirely comfortable taking a little trip on my own [...]
Posted in Urban Life, tagged Beethoven, Earth Day, Music on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Happy Earth Day to all!
I was listening to music instead of podcasts this morning while taking the train into work. My iPod was in shuffle mode and throwing up a pretty interesting combination of tunes: Mad World (the slower version from Donnie Darko), Paradise by the Dashboard Light (Meatloaf), Slow Train to Dawn (The The), and [...]
Posted in Urban Life, tagged earthquake, cougar, CTA on April 18, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s been quite a newsworthy week here in Chicago and those of us living on the northwest side have had more than our share of events to deal with.
Earlier this week, we were rattled by a wild cougar roaming into a northwest side neighborhood where police cornered and killed it. (I wasn’t happy at first [...]
Posted in Urban Life, Whining on March 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Not to sound overly dramatic, but today was quite a mess. What’s up: Is the moon full? Are we in retrograde? I wish I knew why it was such a clusterf*ck of a day.
It started off with me getting a call from one of my clients about 10 minutes before my train arrived in the station. [...]
Posted in Urban Life, Whining on February 12, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m on a business trip this week. That means I’m having the whole business travel experience (flight delays, overpriced hotel, exhorbitant fees for in-room Internet service, etc.), which includes a free copy of USA Today newspaper.
While getting a bit of work done in my hotel before heading to my meeting, I opened the paper and [...]
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