Well as I believe I mentioned a few days ago, I have set out to ride my bike the length of every street in Madeira. I finished my route planning this afternoon, and set off on my first ride this evening. The routes that I have planned out are 10 routes of 6.2, 6.0, 6.4,…

DO YOU CARE that if one wants to get an accurate portrayal of where our house is located on online map/satellite providers such as Google Maps, you have to use 7345 instead of 7317? The reason, I believe, is because the Census data upon which these things are based on (or more accurately, the for-pay…

If you missed my last post about the retaining wall, scroll down or follow the link to see my laborings of Saturday morning. After the trip to Home Depot in the afternoon, I went back out after dinner. As you can see from the below picture, I managed to get layers 3 and 4 pretty…

I went out this morning to work on ye olde retaininge walle. I’ve been meaning to work on it for awhile, but it seems like every time I finally have some time to work on the yard, the grass is getting long and I have to cut it. Plus it’s freaking hot. I went out…

Bit behind, so I’ll just recap the final days of our vacation. Day 5 (Friday) we decided to just take it easy. We were kind of worn out of having to commute 2 hours one-way into downtown, so we decided not to on Friday. Our plans were to go see the Lincoln Park zoo, but…

We decided that Amy, Joel and Carolyn would stay back while Scott and I made the trek into downtown. We left around 9:30 and took the blue line to Grand, and the #65 Grand over to Michigan Avenue. So…. apparently Chicago has double-decker streets. I did not know that, and being the road-geek that I…

Wednesday morning started off bright and early. Everyone kind of ended up getting up at about 6:35. We had set an alarm for 7, in the hopes of getting an earlier start on the day than the day before. We went and ate breakfast and when we returned to our room we realized we had…

Well that last post was getting a bit long, so I thought I’d write a separate one for last night. The night went much better. We stuck Joel in his crib in one of those bathrooms, and that seemed to work out pretty well. That allowed us to sleep on the bed, which was much…

First of all, I wrote a nice long post detailing yesterday but lo, Blogger ate it. I will try to recreate it, but can’t promise to do it justice. Just think of how funny I am, and I’m sure that you’ll be able to imagine that my other post was 40 times as funny 🙂…

Quick recap of last night. It was a bit of madness. It all started out pretty well. The kids all went to bed at like 7 p.m. All 3 of them went to sleep after only minor fussage. I forgot when we went to bed but we were both pretty tired – maybe 10? The…