Mark’s in the hotel bathroom shaving off his mustache – he says it’s time. He’ll be 60 in October. I’m listening to car talk on WBEZ, while writing. We came in yesterday on the train. It was a bit of a hike and lugging suitcases on the crowded CTA bus to get to the hotel […]
When we got up on Sunday morning in Oak Park, for the last day of Lollapalooza, it was raining – as it is right now in Madison, as I write this, already the following Friday. Mark and I went to Starbucks, and I took my computer for the free wifi, and wrote an earlier blog […]
I think I woke up a little the worse for the beer on Saturday morning, but Mark & I got coffee, then we woke up the kids and went for a real breakfast. Our favorite Greek-owned breakfast place moved a few blocks west, on Madison St. on the border between River Forest & Forest Park, […]
After the over-busyness of last week, we are now on vacation at Lollapalooza in Chicago. We got here at about 5:00 on Friday. Mark & Ethan & Abby went straight down to the show. My foster daughter’s aunt was here on the dot to pick her up, but we had to wait a bit for […]
On the last night of the conference, Tuesday, they put on a big event for us at Navy Pier with a blues band, cash bar – but we got two drink tickets at registration – and lots of food. Plus silly games like bumper car bikes, and balloon animals. And, this time I got back […]
Like I said there was a lot more food provided at the computer-type conference than is the norm at librarians ones. So the only night I really went out for dinner was Monday. After the meetings ended, and to get a little exercise, I walked up Michigan Ave. to the big Borders. I bought a […]
I’m in Chicago for a conference, a users’ group for the software that U of Wisconsin (and lots of other people) are using to deliver their online courses. As a theme, because we’re in Chicago, they’re calling it “Architects of Education”. I’ve been thinking it’s really the first non-librarian conference I’ve gone to in a […]