I went out this morning for a two-mile walk-jog along the lake by our apartment. Mostly walking w/ a few stretches of running mixed in. My goal is to increase the amount of jogging until I can do the entire route w/o walking much ( Read more... )

On Saturday, Jo, Maddie, and I went out to Oak Park to check out the Frank Lloyd Wright home & studio tour. In addition to his home, there are a ton of other homes designed by FLW in the neighborhood that makes for a really nice walking tour. Some truly amazing examples of his work, both before his Prairie School days and after. The home/studio was ( Read more... )

I thought I'd take some time from my EXTREMELY busy schedule to post a few random updates and such... I'll just bullet some shit and don't expect any sort of coherence or order to the thoughts.... Pretty much like a real conversation with me.

* This is week something or other of my unemployment. I'm too bothered to even figure out how long it's been ( Read more... )

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Last night I decided to try something new so I baked ears of corn in their husks in the oven. Soaked them for awhile first so the husks wouldn't burn and then just thew them in for about 30 minutes at 425 ( Read more... )

Our entire department is being dissolved and we are all being laid off. No real details yet... It wasn't suppposed to happen till next week but someone leaked it to the press.

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I know for certain that I own fourteen homes.

Just in case anyone comes asking.

A coworker sent this video out and I was completely prepared to hate on it and stop watching it immediately, except that instead it just made me feel happy.

It'll probably make you feel happy too.

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