there was much celebration, hugs, laughter but the mood was hardly what I’d call self-congratulatory. It was refreshingly earnest as if everyone there, happy as they were about how it was turning out, recognized that we were all… all participating in a shared moment in history.

Third Bike the Drive. 70-degree weather and no wind made biking perfect.
This picture sucks, but it’s a screen grab from a $24 digital print. Screw you guys for not paying me royalties on my likeness. Bastages.
Anyhoo, we rocked it and then went on with Santi to Twisted Spoke for breakfast.

Exactly what has to happen to prompt improvements in Chicago’s mass transit system?
Today, we have a Green Line derailment with about 50 people injured. At the end of April, a Semi crashed into a Red Line station killing two. Just a week before that, the Blue Line went down in the subway, leaving people to take matters into their own hands after two hours of non-response from CTA. And this is on top of added strain and congestion on the Metra, the L lines and reduced CTA …

Suzy, Logan and I attended a one-year-old’s birthday party on Saturday at a local indoor playground for toddlers. We had our requisite pizza, cupcakes and organic juice boxes from 4 - 6pm and we left with everyone else.
Suzy had a party at Dee’s to go to, so needing a bottle of wine, we made a quick stop to the “Treasure Island” gourmet grocery next door to the play area. We both were kinda in awe of the place since we didn’t even know if its existence — it’s …

How can it be 50 one morning and -24 windchill the next?