Oh Chicago, you're so silly.
We had a really mild November, to the point that I was easily biking up till the week of Thanksgiving. Then came Thanksgiving. Snow, ice, wind, cold. Suddenly, Chicago remembered 'Oh man! It's almost December! I gotta turn it down!' So we've had snow, ice, wind, rain, sleet [...]
It actually wasn't raining that bad. Yesterday when I got up it was raining and my knee hurt. After my trip to Japan in 2008, a cane for a month and a round of therapy, I've settled into the reality that my knee is always going to hurt. It's not surprising. [...]
According to Google, if I drive home from work, it's 14 miles. If I walk, the fastest route is 10 miles, though it goes through some seriously sketchy parts of town. You can't actually get Google to admit that you can walk on the Lake Shore path, but if you fiddle around, you can [...]
No, I didn't move. I started thinking about how commuting is perceived of in different places, and how there are some offices where it's fine to come in a little sweaty, and others would fire you for walking in with shorts on. I work for a Very Large Bank (often called Goliath [...]