Well it now looks like the heaviest snow is supposed to be out of the area shortly after 6, so maybe it won't be too bad.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 20 January 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
LOL @ rerouting off LSD.
― Je55e, Friday, 20 January 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
Oh my goddess, this commute is gonna be something. Should I just have a few beers and wait out rush hour? It is bad bad bad on Halsted. And on Jackson. A cop was just sitting in traffic with sirens wailing, going nowhere.
― Je55e, Friday, 20 January 2012 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
You should just bury yourself in the snow.
― Jeff, Friday, 20 January 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
Preferably yellow.
Unplowed Revolutionary Road.
― do you not like slouching? (Eazy), Friday, 20 January 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
This girl doesn't seem to get cabs... She keeps hailing cabs with light off and then getting petulant when they don't stop. Also just hailing everything on four wheels?
Reporting live from Greektown, I'm Je55e K3hropolo5.
― Je55e, Friday, 20 January 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
Fr rl tho I think I'm gonna go sit in a Greek bar and get pants shittingly durnk. Its been 15 min and the buses just aren't coming and I'm cold and horngry.
― Je55e, Friday, 20 January 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
Just don't end up going home with sme Captain Lou Albano type.
― do you not like slouching? (Eazy), Friday, 20 January 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
Or some otter.
― Jeff, Friday, 20 January 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
I wish some otter would come give me a fucking ride. After 20 min I think this might actually be accurate....
http://i.imgur.com/LedTv.jpg
― Je55e, Friday, 20 January 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
He'd feed me mussels and take me Sledding.
― Je55e, Friday, 20 January 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
Update
I'm on a bus.
― Je55e, Saturday, 21 January 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
In 26 minutes we've moved 1.2 mile
http://cache0.bigcartel.com/product_images/3379561/EIT_SHIRT_NEW.jpg
― Je55e, Saturday, 21 January 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry. I'm just mingling.
― Je55e, Saturday, 21 January 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
My train commute was a piece of cake. Wasn't even crowded. Then I fell twice on the way home because nobody on Diversey from the train station wast to Lincoln shovels their fucking walks, and I got into it with a douchebee in a white SUV turning onto Racine who drove DIRECTLY TOWARDS ME while I was carefully shuffling through the unplowed slush, with the light. I actually dawdled on the corner waiting for him to get out of the car after he pulled into the gas station because I was going to share some things about how his actions made me feel, but he just pumped his gas without paying attention to me. I GUESS HE WAS SCARED.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Saturday, 21 January 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
Jesse, you're going to be on that bus for hours. Do you have a seat or are you standing?
I should say - the douchebee actually made eye contact with me while he drove toward me, and appeared to be saying things loudly in his car, so it's not like this was an accident. He really felt my presence as a pedestrian crossing the street was cramping his driving style.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Saturday, 21 January 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
I'm seated.
1.9 miles. I really should have taken a train or gone to a bar.
― Je55e, Saturday, 21 January 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
phillip (my bf) is having his birthday dinner tonight and there hasn't been a single bus for over an hour
it took me an hour and a half to get home (it normally takes about 20 min). i hate to be a major asshole but i really don't want to fucking go anywhere.
― tanuki, Saturday, 21 January 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
I think you have a pretty good reason to bow out.
OMG. I think rush hour just magically ended. Just like THAT! Wow.
― Je55e, Saturday, 21 January 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
now the bus tracker map isn't showing any buses at all and bf isn't answering my fb messages. now i feel like an asshole and can't even enjoy being snowed in.
― tanuki, Saturday, 21 January 2012 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
Bus tracker completely stopped working from what I can tell. Tried numerous routes, all = no buses.
― Je55e, Saturday, 21 January 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
Including at stops ahead of the bus I'm currently on.
― Je55e, Saturday, 21 January 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry Corey. Hope you get to enjoy snowing in later maybe with him.
― Je55e, Saturday, 21 January 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
now there's a bus
@_@
― tanuki, Saturday, 21 January 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
Two hours five minutes to drive from HP to LS.
― long duk dan (dan m), Saturday, 21 January 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
It only took me three hours to get home. Lucky I left an hour early.
― the emancipation of distraction (askance johnson), Saturday, 21 January 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
I'm home. That was not that fun
― Je55e, Saturday, 21 January 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
Train wasn't bad, 97 down Howard was a shitshow though. Cars stuck at every other intersection blocking traffic.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Saturday, 21 January 2012 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
I think there is a homeless person hanging out in the lobby of my building. She is in her 50's, kinda haggard looking, Ace bandage under her swollen calf (pant leg hiked up), sitting in one of the chairs by the elevator and mailboxes, a rolling suitcase next to her. She was asleep until I opened the elevator gate, and she was back asleep when I got back from 7-Eleven.
There is a similar character who hangs out in the locker room at my gym. He even has a big swollen leg. I see him every couple weeks slumped practically in half on the same bench in the back, sometimes w/ his shoe off.
The woman in my building I get, but how does the guy have a membership card to the gym? Could have found it, I suppose, but I've been seeing him since 2008 or 2009. That's a long time for a lost card to work.
― Je55e, Saturday, 21 January 2012 06:58 (twelve years ago) link
I just shoveled so much snow. We now have the clearest, most well-salted patch of sidewalk on either side of our block.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Saturday, 21 January 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
Why is all of the salt blue this year? It reminds me of when raspberry suddenly turned blue for no reason and then from that point forward, "raspberry" was "blue raspberry", which means nothing to me. It's either a mystery or Walter White's fault. Either way, I don't like the blue salt.
― La Lechera, Saturday, 21 January 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
There was blue salt and regular old gray salt at Home Depot. I bought the gray because it was waaaay cheaper, but some of the blue salt was advertised as being dog paw friendly. So maybe blue salt is good!
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Saturday, 21 January 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
tell that to my little three legged limpers! i guess they mean nontoxic, though. i guess the blue raspberry salt is ok then.
― La Lechera, Saturday, 21 January 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
Aww
― do you not like slouching? (Eazy), Saturday, 21 January 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
I do feel bad about getting the big bag of cheap salt w/r/t dog paws. The paw-friendly salt was like twice as much money for a third as much product. Also the melt rating was lower than the regular salt.
But I still feel bad.
Amanda, do you put shoes on your dogs?
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Saturday, 21 January 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, the melt rating was higher. So the dog salt was rated to melt down to like 20 degrees and the cruel salt was like -5.
Amanda, do you put shoes on your dogs?I don't. They're ok without them, and they are already whiny/wimpy enough and I can't handle one more additional "put the shoes on the dogs" responsibility in addition to everything else, esp. when they are doing ok so far.
It's not a big deal about the salt! I was really more alarmed that it was blue and unnatural looking than the melt rate/poisonous nature tbh.
― La Lechera, Saturday, 21 January 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, we always buy the paw friendly salt because of all the dogs in our neighborhood, but its ridiculously expensive compared to regular salt and it works maybe half as well.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Saturday, 21 January 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
We're going to switch to bacon salt.
― Jeff, Saturday, 21 January 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
Truly the most dog-friendly salt.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Sunday, 22 January 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
GUYS GUYS (esp NICK because his music is on it)
R0tters just won audiobook of the year Odyssey award!!
So proud.
― La Lechera, Monday, 23 January 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
woohoo!
― long duk dan (dan m), Monday, 23 January 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
AWESOME!!!!
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Monday, 23 January 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
also jenny and gang -- i am officially a contestant in the 9th annual you know what contestquestions:
do we know anyone who has a fog machine i could borrow? do we know anyone who has a thing that would alter my voice as i read into a microphone?
― La Lechera, Monday, 23 January 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
:D on both counts.
― JuliaA, Monday, 23 January 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
i'd look at the toy store for some kind of voice-altering toy, that would probably be the most cost-effective option.
congrats to DK
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 23 January 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
it's been a long time, but i just heard from my old buddies, the ski bro CPAs:Guys, I'm sorry as well. I wanted to see that T.V. I just came from my doctor and I have an appointment with the surgeon next Monday the 30th. He said I might have hernia's on both sides. Ever since I got a copy of the Kama Sutra for my iPad I've been a wreck. Have fun.
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:01 AMSubject: I just need to pack
Guys-Sorry if this is a duplicate, I thought the first didn't go through. My skis are tuned, and I am starting to hydrate. Jeff and I leave on Friday morning and get in around 10:30. When do all of you arrive? Please count me in for Second City and whatever else is planned. Peter I am sorry that you wont be joining us, it will not be the same. HoLooking forward to catching up.Les
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Monday, 23 January 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
"it will not be the same, ho"
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 23 January 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link