It’s that time of year again. The time when it starts taking twice as long to drive to work because of the road conditions, snow plows run over gas mains in your neighborhood, and the time when I can be pulled into discussions about the origins of Christmas about as easily as I can [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Happy Saturnalia!
December 17, 2008At least the neighborhood didn’t blow up :)
December 17, 2008You’d think that they wouldn’t put a gas main in an area where a snow plow would even have a chance of running into it. Apparently that wasn’t the case here. So I guess it’s good that we didn’t have an explosion in our neighborhood this morning.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/12/hanover-park-gas-main-street-closing.html
The frowny face in the sky
December 1, 2008I’ve been looking forward to the frowny face in the sky for about a week (since I found out there was going to be one). What stinks is that it’s now cloudy on the night I’d actually be able to see it. If you’re wondering what I’m talking about, Venus, Jupiter, and a crescent moon [...]
