As I was making my way to the Metra stop downtown, during the last two stops I realized that I was completely alone on the bus. There were definitely fewer people out and about today, and this added to the slightly “out of the ordinary” feeling I had today.
After a few days of unseasonably warm temperatures, today was cold and windy. A lot of the windows at my neighborhood Metra had ice and condensation – giving the whole entryway a kind of diffused look.
This is from a week or two ago, shortly after the first (light) snow of the year. I was walking to my car in a nearby parking garage, and noticed that the snow had come in from the outside, along the walls.
Also while standing there, I remembered Alicia Frantz and her way of listening to the world. Listening to the voices around me, I also noticed the sounds of the door to the waiting area – opening and closing. I heard the sound of people walking by, their arms brushing against their coats, the footsteps on the floor.
This is far after the fact, but I took these photos a month or two ago… on my way home. The Hyde Park Used Book Sale was being set up, and I passed by the covered boxes as I was headed back home.
“For the FRA Type II glass, the manufacturer must drop a 12-pound masonry block of specified parameters, which impacts the glass at 12-feet-per-second.”
An ad for Uber. Which I found hilarious. I wonder if they specifically targeted times when the boards were inactive or unable to display info due to delays. I’ll have to keep an eye out in the future, to see if those ads show up all the time or not.
I couldn’t get a sense of anything else around this sign, that might warrant a safety reminder. It just seemed to have been planted in the middle of nowhere, akin to a sign that someone might put next to the sidewalk that says “Eat Your Vegetables.”
As I was waiting to step off the Metra train, I looked down and spotted this penny. Almost instantly, I thought about the childhood pasttime of placing pennies on train tracks.
The part that cracked us both up is that the turtle “escaped.” Trying to imagine this as a kind of slow-motion, multi-hour prison break made me chuckle a little bit.
This week has been an interesting one, in that by tomorrow… I’ll have been working in three different offices within the span of four days. Now that I’m back in Chicago, I have a different commute than the one I’ve had for the last five years.
then, on closer inspection… I wondered if it was the same company I had seen a few weeks ago. Curious, I looked up the blog post I made, and realized this was an entirely different mobile pet grooming company.
Liz and I spotted this, while walking home from work today. At first, I saw the picture of a dog and assumed it was some kind of pet thing. But on closer inspection, I realized it was a mobile grooming spa.
While walking home, I spotted some of the valets on Washington just kind of hanging out. In particular, one guy who was perched on the Detour sign, looking down the road.
But a part of me also feels like it’s tempting fate, just a teensy little bit. I’m imagining a drunk college student staggering home, seeing this, and then thinking “Well, we’ll just see about that!“