jordan, don't be greedy. i'd settle for a sunday in bed with any one of those things.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
is it really so much to ask?!
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
(i guess the lady is the key part that i've been missing)
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck The World
― Laurel, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
waffles in bed seems like a bad idea to me, especially if they have maple syrup on (which they must do). i can't even imagine having syrup seeping into the mattress.
― colette, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Fear The Waffles
― chicago kevin, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't even imagine having syrup seeping into the mattress.
of all the things that could seep into a mattress maple syrup is probably the most innocuous.
just don't use too much syrup, waffles are nature's syrup holders. or sometimes i make sour cream waffles and top with sour cream.
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
btw, i have my cold brew coffee cold brewing at home. or, i guess it brewed last night, and now the concentrate is draining. i'm a little skeptical of the microwaving part, but i look forward to not having to make coffee for at least two weeks.
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG Jordan's sour cream waffles!!! You should talk about them with a lady friend and maybe one thing will lead to another.
― KitCat, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, i have talked up breakfast at my place already :>
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I would be more than happy to act as a reference on behalf of your waffle-making skills.
― KitCat, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Man, I totally want to make those this weekend.
Check this out. One of my sisters was supposed to buy my sister-in-law's train ticket and get reimbursed for it (they were traveling from DC together) and she FORGOT to buy the other ticket!! Now the train is full. :-(
― KitCat, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh, that sounds not good, sarah! this is why i prefer to make my own travel arrangements even if it means doing it for other people as well...
― colette, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Totally random - of course - but at lunch today we were talking about our benefits program, since we're in open enrollment now. Anyway, all these questions were flying, so I came out with, "Hey, does it make any sense to start a 401k even though our company doesn't match contributions?" And it was like a total freeze-frame in a bad comedy, perhaps accompanied by a record scratch, whereupon one coworker said, "Sarah!! You are foolish not to already have a 401k at your age! Please tell me you at least have an IRA going??" Oh, good times.
― KitCat, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Hard to schedule in until basketball season's over, right?
"Breakfast in Bed" by Dusty Springfield is one of the great raunchy songs ever.
The EEE reminded me of this book.
― Eazy, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Ugh. I need to put away money for retirement. Or funeral at least.
― Jesse, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
you know how it is, she's got games, finals, ACTs, driver's license test, etc.
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
plus i'll bet her babysitter watches her like a hawk, amirite?
― chicago kevin, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
who babysits the babysitters?
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
you do, uncle badtouch.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Overheard in New York:
Dad: What are you going to do if a boy tries to kiss you? Little girl: Bop him on the head. Dad: That's right -- bop him on the head with a stick.
--1 train
― Laurel, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
all the kids are "bopping" these days
― dan m, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
there's no stopping the cretins from bopping
― chicago kevin, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
there's a film trailer that's on the "kicking and screaming" VHS that i've seen a million times, and this conversation is making me thing of part of it. "she's 16, she's got no pores!" "she's got no drivers license."
you had to be there, obv.
hmm, i would like to go home now to make the focaccia for tonight.
― colette, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Yay! Oh, by the way, c, my mom found a used dutch oven for me for xmas! I haven't tried making the bread yet though.
― KitCat, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
cool, it's actually evolving all over the place. cooks illustrated suggests replacing about 1/3 of the water with beer (light lager, to be exact) and add a teaspoon of vinegar as well. this gives it a more flavorful taste...i think it helps, but we're probably just going to make a starter and use that.
― colette, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
all my friends are boppin' the blues, it must be goin' round http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGPORTRAITS/music/portrait200/drp000/p064/p06453wi6b1.jpg
― La Lechera, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
don't fear the perkins
― La Lechera, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey, I just found that my big Hollywood movie appearance from 1995 is online. I'm wearing glasses and am not attractively outfitted, at 0:04.
― Eazy, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
haha, are you walking by from the left? awesome.
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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― La Lechera, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
It took some acting prep to appear to be convincingly engaged in conversation with my walking companion.
― Eazy, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Was the language barrier much of a problem for you?
― dan m, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
They CGI-ed my mouth to make it look like I was speaking Spanish.
― Eazy, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey, there goes the state pinball champion.
― jaymc, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
silvialaputa? who gives themselves that kind of name?
― Jesse, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
silvia
― La Lechera, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
does anyone know anything about the red-blue line superstation planned for Block 37? I keep reading that the platform and tracks will be connected, but I don't understand how the tracks can be connected.
― Jesse, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
welding
― dan m, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I could see a superstation going from Washington/Michigan to Washington/Dearborn, but I guess that's how the two stations were connected before the station closed.
― Eazy, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
it would be pretty unsafe to put a train on tracks that weren't connected to anything.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Construction to modify the State Street subway platform for connecting tunnels and tracks that will link the Red and Blue Line subways and connect them to the planned rapid transit station at 108 N. State Street begins 12:00 midnight, Monday, October 23, 2006.
from the CTA's news release
― Jesse, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
that's State St. in Wisconsin, btw
― Jordan, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
That Blue transit center over at Clark/Lake is such a shiny big one that they won't replace that, I'm sure, so maybe the blue will jut over an extra block and run by a platform connecting to the red platform? I can't imagine that they would put both trains on the same track -- that would just gum up everything.
― Eazy, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I would imagine they say "connect" in the same manner that the Red Line is connected to the elevated Loop tracks or like the Paulina connecting track before it became part of the Pink line. There is a tunnel that breaks off of the Blue between Grand and C/L, too.
― dan m, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Construction to modify the State Street subway platform for connecting tunnels and tracks
^^that wording is lacking and ambiguous
― Jesse, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Write an angry email to the CTA.
― dan m, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Why can't I find anything online that shows an artist's rendering of the completed superstation?
― Jesse, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link