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Welcome to Winter

Posted in Life in General, Weather on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s been -3F pretty much all day. Right now, it’s -1 and the windchill is -15. Sorry to talk so much about the weather, but, well, it’s pretty damn cold. Spent the day inside keeping warm and doing Christmasy things: Finished up the last batch of holiday cards and started knitting a scarf for a [...]

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Saturday 3 p.m. ~ Makin’ Copies

Posted in Saturday 3 p.m. on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

At the UPS store copying and shipping a packet of info to my mortgage broker–it’s time to refinance!

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Ironside: The Man Who Believed

Posted in Television on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The next installment in my ongoing rundown of Ironside‘s debut season is up on The Beachwood Reporter. Drop in at the Psychedelic Daffodil and check it out.

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Bracing for the Frozen Wall of Water

Posted in Weather on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The wave is about to hit. Let’s see, how many different types of precipitation are there? Snow, ice, rain, sleet, freezing rain, freezing drizzle. Check on all counts. There’s even a possibility of thunderstorms. (My favorite is thundersnow.) I haven’t heard any call for hail. Small favor, Mother Nature. For two days now, the warnings [...]

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2008 in 2008

Posted in Randomness on December 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »

A small sense of accomplishment and a strange sense of symmetry with this, the 2,008th post to my blog.

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Gaudy Gaudi

Posted in Film on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Siskel Film Center’s holiday tradition continues with their annual week of screenings of the film Antonio Gaudi. I saw it for the first time last year and highly recommend it. You’ll find my review here.

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Holy Crap, Is It Cold Outside!

Posted in The Cute, Weather on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

When I arrived home this evening, the temperature was 9, with a deadly thin layer of ice on all the sidewalks. Yesterday it was fifty. Five-Oh! Tomorrow we’ll be in the twenties with a few inches of snow dumped on us. This is the weirdest winter weather I can recall in years. And it’s not [...]

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Thawing Out, Day 2

Posted in Life in General, Weather on December 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »

After a number of frigid days (it was 17-degrees when I walked to work on Friday with a wind-chill around 4) we had a relative heat wave today with temps in the upper-40s. I took a walk along the lakefront where there was a crust of ice clinging to the shore. Blustery but nice to [...]

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Saturday 3 p.m. ~ Thawing Out

Posted in Saturday 3 p.m. on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Clearing the melting ice from the sidewalk before the rains came.

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My Brush With Blago

Posted in Political Mumbo Jumbo on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Looking at my flickr stats for this week, I noticed that my photo of Governor Blagojevich is leading the hit parade. This was taken at Wrigley Field on my birthday back in 2005. We had seats better than the Gov’s, right behind home plate. He was glad-handing folks as they walked up the aisle after [...]

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