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Lollapalooza: I Can’t Believe I’m Even Half Considering This

Posted in Music on April 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I was listening to Blind Pilot last night and popped over to their website to see if and when they might be passing through Chicago on tour. I was surprised to discover they’re part of this summer’s Lollapalooza lineup. Then I looked at the rest of the lineup and discovered quite a few of my [...]

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BVI, Sooner Rather Than Later

Posted in BVI Vacation, Sailing, Travel on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

When folks ask me how my recent vacation was, my one-word answer is “fantastic”, quickly followed by “we’re already planning a return trip.” No exaggeration. On the last day, after we’d sailed into the harbor, docked the boat, unloaded and performed the equivalent of checking out of our floating hotel, the six of us sat [...]

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AirPort Express: The Sweet Sound of Music, Minus the Headphones

Posted in Music on April 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Yesterday I was at the Apple store getting my defective MacBook battery replaced (no charge) so of course I felt I had to give them some of my money. I used the visit as an excuse to finally pick up an AirPort Express to stream music from my iTunes to the house stereo speakers. For [...]

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Art and His Art

Posted in Books, The Cute on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Last week’s impulse pick-up from the library (Art by Patrick McDonnell, creator of the comic strip Mutts) has quickly become Wee-J’s new favorite book. She gravitates to it throughout the day and giggles every time we get to the page with her new funny word on it–”doodle.” Think about it, “doodle” is a hilarious word. [...]

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My iTunes Library: The Zero Playlist

Posted in Music on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In my recent shenanigans prepping the trusty iPod for vacation, I finally got around to culling from my music library a lot of the junk I’d accumulated over the years. (Where did all these INXS songs come from?!) I was continually coming across music I didn’t recognize or had completely forgotten I owned. A few [...]

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Saturday 3 p.m. ~ Cleaning Out My (Media) Junk Drawyer

Posted in Saturday 3 p.m. on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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Backyard Gardening: Taking the CSA Farm Box to the Extreme

Posted in In the Garden on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Attention Illinois backyard gardeners!Friends of mine are considering devoting a sizable section of their backyard to a vegetable garden this summer. (I personally have room for a couple of pots of herbs and a few cherry tomato plants, so I’m living a bit vicariously through them here.) In talking with my friend, I was reminded [...]

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First Thunderstorm of the Season

Posted in Weather on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s 57-degrees, raining and there’s lightening every now and then over Lake Michigan. A big roll of thunder just rumbled out to the east for what sounded like miles after the sky completely lit up in a flash. The forecast for the next few days has temps pegged in the 70s and 80s, so I’m [...]

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Books Read by the Weight

Posted in Books on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As the name of this blog will testify, my usual modus operandi is to spin two plates at the same time. That goes for cleaning house, cooking, walking. The one area of my life where that’s rarely, if ever, true is reading. I don’t like to read more than one book at a time. I [...]

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Post-Vacation Hangover

Posted in Life in General on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Other than my regular 10-hour stints with Wee-J yesterday and today, I’m totally out of my normal routine. Ever since getting back from the islands, I’ve been in a kind of fog, like I traveled through six time zones or halfway around the world. I get home at the end of the day and once [...]

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