Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

I think I know why the attys were laughing. We're going to hold a "focus group" (mock trial) and I'm going to play the part of the harasser.

xpost But we are millions strong! Our voices will be heard!

jesse, does your humidifier work? how much do you want for it?

Apparently it has also not filtered down to British fancypants. xp re Nalgene

and I'm going to play the part of the harasser

a stretch. This'll be like when Dennis Hopper played the nut in Apocalypse Now. :)

Apparently the concept of Nalgene has not filtered down to the Sitting-On-Your-Ass-A-Lot community.

Au contraire, I own one.

my humidifier works. my parents bought it and used it once last winter, but discovered they hate humidity.

It was originally $80-something (?- tag still on it)and I got it for free so I dunno. I'll give you a friend price.

yay! i would like to reserve it. my throat gets all dry and sore in the winters. and i'm supposed to be singing again, if i don't have polyps on my vocal chords. but that's a different conversation.

katie asked first, but that reminds me... i really need a humidifier this winter. I had prune fingers for four months last winter.

prune fingers? are you sure you don't need a DE-humidifier?

Katie, I'll let you see it first. It's not your typical humidifier.

ACT-ually!! I have TWO humidifiers. So you can choose.

Price --- make me an offer? $20?

prune fingers? are you sure you don't need a DE-humidifier?

very. Not puffy bathtub prune fingers, old-man paper-skin prune fingers. Kind of upsetting.

That's not prune fingers.

prunes are not papery. dates, maybe. or onions.

hello, i just got up. damn this not being able to sleep at night thing.

sarah, were they my CAT boots? if so, i LOVE them. the sole is starting to come away from the leather after 2 winters, so i may try to get them fixed if possible because they are so comfy and i think they're cute. of course, i've never seen them in stores again and it took a lot of work to track that one pair down.

also, my chococat nalgene is so not hiking gear.

hee hee chococat

xpost eat me, they're wrinkly, ok? My fingertips wrinkle up because my skin doesn't hold water like it should. It's no fun.

damn this not being able to sleep at night thing.

x2

hey wrinklehands

oh, wrinklehands

These boots, C:
http://www.zappos.com/images///44749-d.jpg

Compared to these I posted above:
http://www.zappos.com/images/735/7358775/6220-501489-d.jpg

http://images.craigslist.org/01021001030201040120070925c8f25baf4d97415052005df7.jpg

should i buy this bike?
$85 - asking

Vintage lightweight unisex frame. New tires on rear. Fast, comfortable commuter bike. Great shape.

xpost can't tell from a photo

"Great shape."

Could mean anything.

also, "unisex" my ass. That bike is way gayer than you are, jesse.

I don't care if it's a woman's bike. I don't care if it has Chococat on it!

Sarah, I think the boots are sensible and handsome. A v solid investment -- are they pricey?

yes, those are the cat boots, and i've been really happy with them. (it's like caterpillar construction stuff)

FUCK. we're going to new york this weekend. staying with one set of friends two nights and in a hotel the other. hotels in new york are stupid expensive so we'd thought about a private room in a youth hostel. but then at 1am i found a cute little hotel, with private bathrooms for only like $20 more than the hostels. sent an email to toby who was asleep, rather than booking it straight away and now it's all booked up. fuck.

"unisex" my ass

Jesse you could do so much better than that.

Actually, Jesse, that bike is a mixte frame, so it's less girly than the "swan"-type women's frames, and will be a little stiffer/more stable, too. A decent choice if you must.

Laurel - $150, which is what I paid for my last pair of tall boots.
But I SUPPOSE that once I save for them, I should check out DSW first just in case.

Oh, sorry, Sarah, I didn't see the top pair of boots...which predictably I don't like as much as the bottom ones! They're almost deffo more practical for, like, icy roads, but you trade off dressiness/formality/refinement, which doesn't work for me. I don't live in Chicago, though!

xp $150 is pretty not-bad! It's a lot of money, but not for tall leather boots.

I just want a CHEAP bike soon, and this one seems pretty sturdy-looking. Maybe not. It's the best I saw in my price range, so thought I would look.

I know, and I would be saving up for them. NO more credit card charges for me! (enter Jesse's 'no' song)
I wasn't saying I was thinking about buying the top boots. Those were ones Colette posted on an old boots thread, and I was surprised at how similar the syles were. That's all.

Colette- this is not a good week for you! :-(

Ah, I must have missed that boot detail. Ach well.

The parking situation at my work is balls insane, with the only spaces being metered spaces or two-hour limit spaces. So basically I have to go out and move my car every two hours, starting at 11 a.m. (usually twice a day). It didn't used to be a big deal, but now there's all this construction taking up almost all the parking spaces, and there are serious bitter battles over the few 2-hour spaces on our block. I now have the option to buy a four month parking pass for the lot next to the office, but it costs $115! That's a lot of dough for something lame like a work parking space. But every time I have to move the car I get stressed out and angry because I am just wasting time. Probably won't buy the pass though.

Oh, those precious, precious secret spots that got eaten up by construction...

Yes I found exactly three spots with no time limitations or meters and I was parking there for a couple of weeks but then a construction crew left all their junk in the spaces.

I take it parking somewhere 4-5 blocks away isn't an option?

How much do you spend on meters Nick?

If you are putting in $1 every 2 hours (9, 11, 1, 3), that's $80 a month, right? And that's getting off cheap.

xpost -- Oh. I thought you usually used metered spots.

is it $115 a month, or for all four months?

(It was all 4 total)

Hey, it looks like it might thunderstorm any second.

hmm, considering that 2 of the next 4 months are december and january, i'd probably think about paying for the spot since it can really suck to be looking for spots in deep snow. you'd be paying for lowering your stress, or something.

I guess that would be something like $1.50 a day? Not too bad, but I get the sense it's more the principle of the thing.

and that you have to pay up front i guess?

While I'm sitting here, slammed busy and hopped up on coffee and goofballs, the Villalobos Fabric mix is climbing steadily in my estimation. And it did not start at the bottom.

one of our board members just brought in a watch for our gala's silent auction. as far as i can tell, this watch is worth somewhere between $8,000 and $15,000. like, worth a car. i have no idea what his hook up is, he's a retired member of the clergy.

Wau, K. I've tried on jewelry that could make the down payment on a house, yeah. It's awfully weird.