The title of this post comes from the fact that the Thursday after the ALA conference, we went back to Chicago for a day trip to see a play and my lunch that day is below. The restaurant calls it “Wild Mushroom Teriyaki Bowl”, green vegetable & sticky rice stir-fry, citrus ponzu, cashew, garden herb … [Read more…]
Although I’ve only been around for the last 30 or so, obviously. My first ALA was Miami Beach in 1994. I think there were a lot of complaints since it was difficult to get from downtown, where there were some meetings and hotels, over to the beach area were the convention center was, more than … [Read more…]
Since we’ve been back from New York, we’ve done a few cultural things, Chicago Symphony, Madison Symphony, oh, and we went to see The Devil wears Prada 2 on the day of the Met Gala, May 4th this year. So we had a whole day of watching fashion and wretched excess. And I did very … [Read more…]
Last Saturday after the last indoor Farmers Market (that we usually drive to) Mark and I took a walk and I got my annual pictures of hellebore. In someone else’s garden, I am not a gardener. Friday, almost a week later, I took some pictures of somebody else’s daffodils. The weather’s been pretty typically April, … [Read more…]
Back in October, after my yearly physical, my primary care doc, nurse practitioner, actually, prescribed me a statin, because my cholesterol is high. But my numbers haven’t really changed in over five years, except actually to go down a good bit between 2022 and 2023, and we had already agreed that it’s probably hereditary. Because … [Read more…]
For many many years, late March into the first two weeks of April has always been a busy busy time for me. My regular job and side hustles always converged, advising week and the spring election and the WI Film fest and the Friends of the Libraries Book sale. Even last year when I was … [Read more…]
A trip to Chicago for two nights instead of one. Valentines Day was a Saturday this year, kicking off the weekend. The followng Tuesday was Mardi Gras, the last day of carnival, and Election Day, and Lunar New year, the start of a couple of weeks of festivities for those who celebrate. Tuesday was also … [Read more…]
…about two weeks to the last time I wrote. January 25th, the weekend Alex Pretti got shot, when we were out in Denver. Here’s our last Sunday morning walk that trip, down the boulevard with lots of really big houses. And on the train pulling into the airport, Monday morning. Monday night when I got … [Read more…]
We spent last Friday, Halloween, in Chicago. We went down for a double-header, Chicago Symphony in the afternoon, and David Byrne at night. And now it’s only Wednesday, but it feels like it’s already Friday. Maybe because of the time change Saturday night. Maybe because Jasper came on Monday this week, so that I could … [Read more…]
So yea, our last trip to Chicago, Friday & Saturday, we went and saw a couple of shows at the Art Institute, Gustave Caillebotte and and Elizabeth Catlett. We also got to walk around in Humboldt Park where John & Megan live and liked it a lot. We took the Bloomingdale bike path to the … [Read more…]