Saturday 8/23/08: A Night at the Theater and Drama Getting There
Saturday again. The Farmer's Market awaits me and the bike trailer. This is a comfortable routine by now and so again by late morning, I'm hooking up the trailer and heading off to meet my wife in...
View ArticleSunday 8/24/08: What Came Before
The weather has cooled overnight from yesterday's humid and stultifying heat. The sun is out and a strong breeze is blowing making work inside and outside very comfortable. I decide to weed the garden...
View ArticleMonday 8/25/08: Insisting on Walking and An Exile Returns
Summer days are so rare in Chicago that I feel guilty being inside on them, even when I have inside work to do and I open the doors and windows to take as much of the outside in as I can. Yet today, I...
View ArticleTuesday, 8/26/08: Now What?
Give me some time, I'm thinking. I am not car-free any longer, again. Does this mean the experiment is over before the summer actually ends? Seems a little hypocritical to continue it under the...
View ArticleWednesday, 8/27/08: Kenosha Bound and Upscale Housing with Light Rail
I have been wanting to make the trek to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to see the new residential development that includes a trolley circulator using historic streetcars, not the diesel-powered cartoon trolleys...
View ArticleThursday 8/28/08: A Day of Errands; Bicyclist becomes a “Bitch”
This turns out to be a fuller day of errands than I had planned but that happened by layering on new commitments to old ones. Will I avoid the car or not? Nope. Why not? Let's look at the day and that...
View ArticleFriday, 8/29/08: Hope, and Hoping He Changes
"Within a century of little Kago's arrival on Earth, according to Trout's novel, every form of life on that once peaceful and moist and nourishing blue-green ball was dying or dead. Everywhere were the...
View ArticleSaturday 8/30/08: Real Bicycle Loads and an Evening Out
Hauling in Good Company I ran into my friend and neighbor Marie Sprandel this morning as I walked with my hairy sidekick Marlowe. Marie is fresh back from a three-week stint in South India where she...
View ArticleSunday 8/31/08: Sawblade Biking and Socializing Still Closer
Once again, we did not motivate to get out of town Labor Day weekend. The weather has been unbelievably nice and sunny with low humidity, so I'm one of many appreciating that bonus for staying in town....
View ArticleMonday 9/1/08: How Close Can You Socialize? How Close Did I Come?
The weekend socializing this Labor Day requires a trip across the alley for dinner with another set of neighbors who have invited a bunch of people from the neighborhood for a barbeque. No drinking and...
View Article