The cold and flu season is here again and if you work in a high rise building in Chicago like I do, you will be exposed to the germs of thousands of people who work in your building, eat at the restaurants you go to and sneeze on you while riding the CTA. The virus [...]
A belated Merry Christmas to you all! I have been off from work and haven’t been blogging for a few weeks, but I still wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year 2008 too. I am ringing in the New Year quietly without a big party this year, but have [...]
Chicago got about 3 inches of snow Tuesday Evening 12/4 and Wednesday Morning as well as another sprinkling of snow this afternoon. Now the weather forecast is saying that tomorrow Thursday 12/6 will include some flurries and there will be more substantial snow on Friday and Saturday. I don’t know about you, but I have a date and a [...]
The holidays are upon us in Chicago and the snow showed up too. This weekend may be your chance to write out Christmas cards and buy gifts oryou could procrastinate a little bit longer and have some fun. I am feeling a little procrastinatory right now so I wanted to list these recommended events and [...]
As I went out to get lunch on Michigan Avenue in Downtown Chicago this afternoon I couldn’t help notice the Christmas shopping in full swing. There were about twice the number of people out shopping than normal and a lot of them weren’t daunted by the 9% sales tax there is downtown on top of the already crazy Michigan Avenue prices. I even saw [...]
