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Sarah, steal a computer so that you can get fired and get a new job.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

And have a new computer. WIN/WIN!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I will not be held responsible for this.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Our laptop at home pretty much rules. We have some extra computers upstairs here but they are huge jurassic creatures.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

http://altoreed.com/index.html

hello 1997

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

like the g3!

really, I am plenty rich in computers. I have three, at present. But I want more.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost... oooh, the page plays "Turn the Page." My favorite Seger song.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

hello 1997

like the g3!

I like how that xpost turned out.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

The page says it was created in '99, so, close.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Oops, missed that. I was basing my era determination solely on the java applet wave effect.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

am going to grocery in driving snow. wish luck.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

luck

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I should be glad I don't have to go out in this mess.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm actually trying to work harder so I can get the hell home ahead of the rush, if possible!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

That's the downside of being an avowed non-driver. I can't claim dangerous roads as an excuse for not coming to work in this weather.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

The wind either stings your face with its ice and cold, or pushes you down the street. It can't decide on a direction. Shoveled sidewalks are ok, unshoveled sidewalks are mid-thigh-deep.

It's a world of suck out there.

Here is the world, being covered in suck:

http://www.manhattanproducersalliance.com/images/Sherwin_Williams_Logo.gif

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sneaking out of work to play a gig at high school now

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

This is going to be a fun walk from ee ee oh sea to school...

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

take the blue line!

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

That would mean walking seven blocks to take the blue line one stop south.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Usually what I do is walk to Jackson and grab a 126, 7, or 151 bus. I could also hoof it to the El and take a brown line to the Library stop. Really, it's merely going outside at all that has me bummed. Especially because I dressed for the low 30s, and not any sort of wind chill horror show that is apparently happening out there now.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"Winds: NE at 25 mph"

So sayeth the weather channel. I don't see it. Looking out the window, the wind direction seems to be "up".

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, I'm only wearing two shirts and one pair each of socks and pants. WTF was I thinking this morning???

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought you worked at the ogilvie transportation center? exit on madison, cross the street, enter union station and exit on jackson or monroe or wherever and walk a block south to the clinton blue line stop.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost That you're tough. AND YOU ARE.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

xp I do. But going to the Clinton stop will require me to walk west to go east and I can't do that. Clinton is west of Canal - I'm on Canal and Madison.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

jenny, how long is your walk? because on a day like today i would walk one street west to ride a train rather than walk to depaul's loop campus (if that is, in fact, where you're going).

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

That is where I'm going. BUT it's two blocks to the El and three to Jackson, all in the correct direction, so NO BIGGIE.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

there may be an entrance on van buren to the lasalle stop! but maybe you don't want to go exploring on the most miserable day of the year.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the most miserable day of the year? It's not even 10 below.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link

no but when it was bitter cold at least there was visibility and i didn't have snow in my boots.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

My prediction is that my most miserable day of the year will occur sometime in the end of July or beginning of August.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

plus, y'know, it's still pretty fucking cold out there. and the wind! my god the wind!!!

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank you, Dan.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

not possible.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I worry that I come off as a dick because I talk about how this weather doesn't bother me. But it's interesting, I see people's reactions to it as cultural differences, and finding out those differences is intriguing and enlightening. It makes want to take you all to the Yoop at this time of year, then again in late summer when it's at its most beautiful.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i can deal with heat, i've never been able to deal with winter. i hate the snow, i hate the cold, i hate it i hate it i hate it.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

dan, you're not even remotely a dick. you're right, we talk about the weather too much.

still. this weather is not good. the people on the weather channel seem to agree. "Nasty Weather in Chicago!"

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

This is perfect post-sauna jumping snow.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://blogging.la/archives/images/2006/07/james_brown

HOT TUB!!!

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, I grew up in the south, where a teeny tiny flurry would cause schools to shut down, offices to close, and a mad rush on the grocery stores.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

That's just me though.

Hi.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

you ever watch a guinness settle, where there's this one layer of bubbles going up, and this other layer going down? that's what it looks like out my window right now.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Take a pic of it (for us, I mean)!

Some interesting first names from the realtor emails I've been collecting:
Poppy
Matinee

And there are an amazing number of women with the first names D0RATA and IW0NA.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

xposts Hi.

I have heard lots of similar stories from my grandparents (from VA) and my parents to a lesser extent. But, my mom lived in the area of NY that got 11 feet or whatever amount last week, too. I've never seen 11 feet fall in a week, ever. Maybe 5 feet. It's such a pain in the ass to deal with, but you do it.

My cousin has a theory that people from places that get a lot of snow have evolved different work ethics because of growing up having to do things like shovel snow 2 or 3 times a day and just deal with the inconveniences it causes. Who knows if it's true or not.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Winter is more tolerable at night, and summer is more tolerable during the day. During the winter, you can always crank the radiators and put on a ton of blankets when you're trying to sleep, but during the summer, if you're stripped down to nothing and have the fan on full-blast and are still sweating, then there is no hope. Conversely, walking around your neighborhood when it's 90 is only mildly uncomfortable, but doing so in 0 degree weather is downright painful, and having to brush off your car and get your socks wet trudging through snow is annoying.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

High schoolers are scary.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Take a pic of it (for us, I mean)!

I think it would just look like blurry snow. You had to be there.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

There was a huge snow here right before my first day of work at my first Chicago job (not this one) after moving here. I was freaking out because I didn't hear from them and had no way of knowing if the office would be closed. So I finally dug out the car. I called them on my way in to say I was on my way and would be a few minutes late, thinking I they would send me back home. Instead, I was completely shocked to be told rather abruptly to never let it happen again.

s'ok, Kenan. I have an amazing view out the front doors here.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

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