When I lived in Chicago, in the city, I took public transportation everywhere I could. It was awesome when I lived and worked in the city. Catch the Brown, Red or Purple Line to the Loop. In about 20 minutes,…
Guess I have a bit of a fascination with weather. My mother loves to study weather, and she’s been keeping a close eye on systems on this western side of the continent. Mother Nature, however, does what she wants. At…
Saw this in my Twitter stream: UP-N Advisory – Inbound Train #328 Scheduled to Arrive Chicago at 9:05 a.m. – 170 to 180 Minute Delay 170 to 180 minute delay. Whoa. That’s a “work from home” message. If it delays…
So, I’m having kind of a bad day. It started waking up, again at 3:30am. I don’t know why, it just keeps happening. I thought my trek out to SMCYVR would have helped but apparently not. Guess I need to…
Literally. These are the notes I tapped into Evernote, which has become my default to record things I’d normally tweet. #dataroamingsux even on #verizon. So, here they are: 1348 Robson St Barclay Canadian tourist store saw stuffed animal black bear…
I’m from Chicago, so I have pre-programmed skepticism about weather. Today, Environment Canada, under which the Weather Office falls, issued an Arctic Overflow Warning for Metro Vancouver. I’m still trying to figure out “Lower Mainland,” but suffice to say, “Metro…
I’m staring at the infamous boxes that finally finished the FexEx #fail gauntlet, and how my temporary dwellings look more like permanent dwellings. Stuff is everywhere, as if I’ve moved in for the long haul already. And I just got…
If you’re like me, your brain might have thought that is a typo. It should really say “Red Bull Crushed Ice” which would make a little more sense. Red Bull after all, is an energy drink, so calling a drink…
Whew. My first weekend in Vancouver was uneventful, which is actually OK. My brain had a chance to relax, unwind and space out. Seems as if it could do with some more relaxing, unwinding and spacing out but, alas, it…
Canadians really like coins. Anything less than five dollars is a coin. A coin! So, two dollars is a coin. One dollar coin. Quarters, Nickels. Dimes. Pennies. Makes me think of a line from The Grinch: “All the noise! Noise!…