Greyhound: Leave the sawing to us…
Snippy At SummerDance
After a tension-filled day of unpleasantries at work, Mary Ann reminded me of my promise to attend tango night at SummerDance. No way I was actually going to dance, but I had said I would go hear the music. Mary Ann, for those of you who don’t know, was born in Argentina. She speaks like where she was raised, though — Hillside, Illinois. They don’t even have a hill, by the way.
We took a bus to Chinatown and the Red Line downtown from there. Here are a few shots from the Chinatown station:
The only way I could think of to have fun at SummerDance was to mock people out and annoy Mary Ann. Childish? Yep. Do I apologize? Nope.
There was a guy with a blue blanket covered with images of skiers. He bugged me by standing in front of us, so I created the legend of The Ski Master:
doneThen I moved around for a closer view of the “dancing”:
doneOn the way back, our last CTA connection, the Cermak bus, took about 40 minutes to show up. Thanks to you, too, CTA. And you were doing such a nice job until then.
The bus did eventually drop us off at the Skylark, where the good company (aided by a few beverages) took the edge off the pain. I would have bought the Ski Master a beer, but he never showed.
Happy Birthday, Mary Ann!
I won’t say exactly how old Mary Ann is, but she was showing me a picture of a trilobite that lived in a pond where she grew up.
In honor of Mary Ann’s birthday, I’ve honored her request and posted footage of an aardvark and the giraffes at the Brookfield Zoo during a recent visit. The footage is special in that it’s the first time we ever saw an aardvark doing anything but lying in a motionless heap. Also, we caught the giraffes while they were being given a special leafy treat.
Lots of love, Mary Ann, and many special leafy treats in the future!
P.S. The binturongs send their best wishes too.
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Back Again
I recently fell victim to a very nasty computer virus. After a lengthy struggle, I was forced to delete my operating system and start all over again. The scary thing was that the virus came from a program that had checked out clean with my antivirus program. I had a lot of programs installed on this computer, and it’s taken time to come back online. No important documents, music, or pictures were lost, though, since I keep them on separate drives that did not have to be reformatted. It’s just a big pain in the butt. Oh well. Stuff happens. Especially to me.
