Chicago MMXII

In 26 minutes we've moved 1.2 mile

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Sorry. I'm just mingling.

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.

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.

I'm seated.

1.9 miles. I really should have taken a train or gone to a bar.

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.

I think you have a pretty good reason to bow out.

OMG. I think rush hour just magically ended. Just like THAT! Wow.

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.

Bus tracker completely stopped working from what I can tell. Tried numerous routes, all = no buses.

Including at stops ahead of the bus I'm currently on.

Sorry Corey. Hope you get to enjoy snowing in later maybe with him.

now there's a bus

@_@

Two hours five minutes to drive from HP to LS.

It only took me three hours to get home. Lucky I left an hour early.

I'm home. That was not that fun

Train wasn't bad, 97 down Howard was a shitshow though. Cars stuck at every other intersection blocking traffic.

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.

I just shoveled so much snow. We now have the clearest, most well-salted patch of sidewalk on either side of our block.

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.

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!

tell that to my little three legged limpers! i guess they mean nontoxic, though. i guess the blue raspberry salt is ok then.

Aww

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?

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.

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.

We're going to switch to bacon salt.

Truly the most dog-friendly salt.

GUYS GUYS (esp NICK because his music is on it)

R0tters just won audiobook of the year Odyssey award!!

So proud.

woohoo!

AWESOME!!!!

also jenny and gang -- i am officially a contestant in the 9th annual you know what contest
questions:

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?

:D on both counts.

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

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 AM
Subject: 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. Ho
Looking forward to catching up.
Les

"it will not be the same, ho"

this is the music i did for dan's audiobook by the way:
http://www.myspace.com/vorvolakas
it's me trying to do black metal.

it was great!! i don't know why you never piped up about it aside from maintaining the mystery of vorvolakas.

also good advice about the toy store. will do. thx.

yeah it was supposed to be mysterious. so mysterious that no one heard it.

i tagged it on lastfm
did my part

so mysterious that it is on myspace

veeeery mysterious

Now that the secret is out, there goes your Decibel cover story. You'll have to wait for the oral history of Vorvolakas when it gets inducted into the hall of fame.

good to hear jordan's bros are still skiing, hope they're weathering the economic downturn OK

"it will not be the same ho."

my hernia's hernia

sounds good n/a. very blackened. i never would have guessed it was you. some cool sound effects in there too.

thanks! it's crazy how well you can approximate screaming by whispering.

vorvolakas will be robbed in the EOY traxx poll