Chicago
I sent this to a site I adore, The Expired Meter, but I suspect our hero the parking geek is running behind. So after a month, here's my story of how I learned about how secure our city stickers are.
Everyone tells me 'Go out for a drive' and my thought is 'To where?' Maybe it's a factor of the green/eco-friendly/save-the-damn-earth/communist/socialist agenda of which I partake. Maybe it's because I'm new at this. But I don't get the whole concept of going nowhere. Now, I do go for bike [...]
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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. [...]
Chicago's Metra has been getting a lot of crap lately. I admin admit, their website is lame (doesn't work right on my iPhone either) and the best I can say for them is that GoogleMaps has picked them up so I can plan things better. They still use paper tickets, with cash [...]
My mom rocks. She and I have been bantering for a couple years about me getting a bicycle. I'm a rollerblader by nature (7.2 miles in the city in 40 minutes, thank you) and I loved living in LakeView because I could take the train or bus to the office and then [...]