The end of summer
Obsessing about politics is not all I've been up to lately. First and foremost, if you hadn't divined it from cryptic postings or from status messages on Facebook and Twitter, █████ and I...
MovingA collection of 21 posts
Scattered notes on moving to Chicago, card #3
As we unpacked all the books and shelved them, I also LibraryThung them all. (That's the past participle of the verb to LibraryThing.) That is how I know we have nearly 1,200 books...
Scattered notes on moving to Chicago, card #2
It's amazing what a difference it makes when a city agrees to stash its garbage out back in the alleys instead of out front on the sidewalk....
Scattered notes on moving to Chicago, card #1
It was an interesting conversation in a staff meeting at work the next-to-last week of June. "So," said my boss, "you'll be in the office on Thursday the 28th, I hope?...
Magic words
We have arrived in Chicago safely, we have moved into our mostly refinished apartment, and we have put our things mostly into place. I will post a more detailed chronicle of our adventures at some point,...
Some last lasts
Yesterday I wrote a check for what I dearly hope will be my last New York City parking ticket. I mean, we had that rental car for less than 24 hours! Oh, well. Thanks, Gotham! Now...