That's a great mural - I love how they do stuff like that.

About time parents were held responsible for what their spawn do. Yes, sad they have to be hit where it obviously hurts them the most, the wallet, and not merely for the well-being of their children, but it's overdue. You bring them into the world and so you're responsible for them until they're 18 - deal with it.

that mural is awesome! thanks for the pic.

the downside of cell phones is, yes, bad news can find you everywhere. and unlucky us, we all get to hear waaay too much personal info about people we don't know. when did we all get SO much to talk about?!

The internet may be crappy, but at least at the 279.00 hotel you are almost guaranteed to get clean sheets. Thats the trade off.

Glad you had a good time in the Windy City. Chelsea are playing there in August. Now only if I had a few quid spare.....

Hopefully (for me!) you will get a work assigment to Europe soon. I still owe you a chocolate shake and veggie burger......

To help you put things in perspective: I don't even HAVE a laptop (it's a financial thing). So if I want to use my computer at all, I have to be AT HOME AND AT MY DESK. Count your blessings, hon.

Ever an optimist, I prefer to hope those people were crying because they just ran out of prepaid minutes.

Wow! That mural is amazing. I went to Chicago a few years back. The buildings are amazing there, I was touching everything.

The charge you for the internet because you can pay $279 a night. It makes no sense to me either. I always to negotiate the rate to include the internet but sometimes it just doesn't happen. Maybe they had blocked those sites because they had said something nasty about the internet access the hotel you were staying in.

Bad news can certainly find you anywhere, but so can good news! I have been told about a lot of really great opportunities because of my cell phone... not that I wouldn't find that out otherwise, but...

We will miss you, Dave. Let us know when you're back in town. Hopefully we can spend more time down there with you the next time. Museums, the lakefront, and whatnot.

I've always been blown away by people who can draw or paint in 3D. Actually, people who can draw or paint anything for that matter. This guy, however, takes the cake!

THAT is an awesome mural!

Glad you managed to survive the rest of your time in Chicago w/o once again being run down by a bitch in a silver car...IN THE STREET!!

While I don't travel much anymore, I do have a suggestion for adding wireless to a non-wireless hotel.

Airport Express. This cool little device is a bit pricey ($130), but all you do is plug ethernet into the jack, it gets an IP address via DHCP and provides wireless within 100ft or so.

You can even restrict wireless so only you can get on (if you don't care to share with the rest of the rooms on the floor)

Granted, it can't make a crappy connection work better, but in the future if you are at a hotel that does have a good connection but no wireless, it's a cool thing to have.

My question on curfew - what if you're coming home from work? I can remember many, many nights I was driving home from work after 10:30 on a weeknight while in high school. Maybe you have to carry around some sort of paperwork or a paycheck stub or something.

Or perhaps the KFC uniform would have given me a pass.

That is a very cool mural.

I paid $53.00 for a Ramada Inn Express (Ramada Inn Bugdet, whatever the entry-level Ramada's are called) in Clarksville, TN.

We had free wireless.

I was pleasantly surprised.

hi! Navy Pier always has a fireworks show every Wednesday and Saturday night. :) Just an fyi.

Let me echo kapgar and also say how grand it was to meet you and yes to the next meet-up already!

That 3D image looks stunning!

I hope you don't mind me asking. How do you show different avatars on your posts?

Cut to me, going to buy a Hershey's Milkshake. Oreos -- and anything related -- are my favorite processed food.

While bad news can find you anywhere, at least you don't have to sit home and wait by the phone for it.

The curfew thing is interesting. Is it for weekend nights too? In my teens, I went out to metal clubs and didn't get home til 4am, not that that was a great thing for a 15 year old to be doing, but still, there were tons of kids there my age. If there had been a ban here, I would have missed some of the greatest shows, including 2 nights of Slayer on the South of Heaven tour!

And Chilly had a great idea about the Airport. I'll have to try mine out the next time I go away.

Safe trip home, buddy!

Except for being run down by the bitch in the silver car, it sounds like Chicago treated you pretty well. In fact, you've been a great advertisement for the city. I should definitely get off my duff and get downtown more often.

And did I mention how cool your site is?

I've BEEN crying on my mobile phone a lot lately, but not because of hearing bad news; in my case, it's usually just me bawling to someone about something that's happening to me that they might not know about...or whatever. But not in Chicago.

Where was the mural? I don't remember ever seeing it and I was downtown as recently as a month ago?? Also, very glad you had a nice time in Chicago. It is a fun place.

I like the horns on his head. Should be bigger.

   
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