To Chicago twice in one week. Hit or miss – the snow and New York City. Steve & Heike came for brunch on Sunday – we had blueberry pancakes and sausages and crispy tofu (kind of like this but I do it different – maybe tofu cubes can be a post on the other blog) […]
After a long week, that I’m now straining to remember. Pudding, lentils, and pig, were the food themes as I recall. I know I woke up in Chicago last Sunday morning – I drove down Friday to deliver John’s new laptop. Didn’t do much that evening – stopped at John’s apartment, found a parking spot […]
Tomorrow is Mark’s 63rd birthday, so I’m going down to Chicago for a fun day. The plan is to meet at the Metra station in Schaumburg – I’ll be driving, he’ll take the train – and then head to Ikea for more apartment furnishing shopping. We’ll get some form of lunch – Maggiano’s in Schaumberg, […]
I spent the weekend, or at least, Saturday night and Sunday in Chicago at Mark’s pied à terre, a one-bedroom in a high rise in the South Loop, that’s an easy L ride to his job just off North Michigan. We took the train and arrived at about 3:00 in the afternoon on Saturday. John […]
So behind …. Last time I wrote was Saturday, April 12. In between then and now, we went to Chicago for a short visit, I had most of a work week, including my annual review, and we had belated Passover on Good Friday. The Chicago trip was fun even though the weather wasn’t the greatest […]
I’m late getting this posted, but I still think it’s a good story …. Last Saturday, in Chicago, we took the Lake St. L downtown, heading for Navy Pier to use our half-price tix to Chicago Shakespeare’s Gypsy – Chicago Shakes, as they call it. The show was at 8:00, so we left Oak Park […]
… to O’Hare. Our AFS student signed up for a trip to California, and was required by the travel service to fly out of O’Hare, so rather than getting up at 3:00 AM to get her to the airport in time for an 8:10 Saturday morning flight, we drove down on Friday night, and got […]
On Sunday morning, I got up and made cimmy buns, and then drove to Milwaukee to help John move to Chicago for grad school. After we got the truck unloaded, we went to Al & Emma’s – barely 2 blocks away – and got cleaned up and then had dinner – at 9:30 PM, at […]
Mark went back yesterday, a day early, because his cat escaped out of a second floor window – silly kitty. She’s a de-clawed Maine coon, so she looks big, but she’s only about 10 months old so still a bit kitten-dumb. And loose on the neighbor hood with raccoons and dogs. Our kids looked for […]
So I’ve been feeling guilty about not taking more pictures, and not blogging more, here among the librarians in Darth Vader’s living room a.k.a. McCormick Place convention center. They’ve covered up the old ugly part pretty well with new buildings; it’s a four building complex now. But it’s still a big rambly damp cold place. […]