It has been a long time since I’ve posted here, but of course, these “intermissions” are not unheard of in the history of Blue Skies Falling, and they have become lengthier and more frequent in the last few years. In the first few years that I kept this blog… basically from 2003-2005 and from 2005-2007, I posted a great variety of content with few interruptions.
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Sometimes, if I get onto the CTA platform and an outbound train is waiting with no inbound train in sight, I’ll hop on the outbound train and ride north, and catch my train to work further up the line. It’s fun.
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Navel Gazing:
This has been the fifth cycle of four years since I started giving years names. High school and college made firm the pattern of lumping them into four years (maybe each year approximates a season?) but life events have, for the most part, had an odd way of conforming more or less closely with this.
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10:30ish tonight. I think there’s a $7 cover. You know, at the corner of Larry (Lawrence) and Broadway: http://www.greenmilljazz.com/
The Patricia Barber Quartet: http://www.patriciabarber.com/
Feel free to show up if you want. Or bring anyone you want to. Or don’t show up at all.
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An abundance of squirrels. There are millions of them. I’ve never seen so many as this year. About a month ago, I noticed something; when I visit Michigan, squirrels are prime candidates for roadkill. But I never see roadkilled squirrel in Chicago.
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I haven’t been consistent in updating here, but minus my time in England I have been in Chicago. The first part of the month was uniformly chilly, typically in the thirties and forties. More recently, it’s vacillated between chill and rainy days and humid and warm days.
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Here’s what I’ve been doing since then.
The wife picked me up at the airport last Wednesday evening (wow, has it already been a week?) and we zipped home via the Mexican restaurant La Gallo Bravo. That night we started a nature film that we were too tired to finish.
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The week before last was my last week of work at Northwestern. It was bittersweet, but each day we too busy to really stop and reflect. There were a lot of loose ends I wanted to tie up before heading out.
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In the last week, I have noticed how cold and snowy it got again! Snow, as a surprise… a sure sign that it’s almost spring.
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