My last day in Chicago was spent working, which is such a bummer given the beautiful weather and all the nifty things to do in the city. As I type this, fireworks are being shot off of Navy Pier just down the road from my hotel. I don't think that it's a holiday, so I'm not sure what's going on. Perhaps the fact that it's another glorious day in The Windy City is reason enough to celebrate?
I'm too tired to write comprehensive sentences, so it's time for bullet points!
Oh yeah... on the way back from lunch I finally remembered to take a photo of this cool mural that's a 3-D image of Michelangelo's sculpture masterpiece "Moses"...
A brilliant likeness of the original, which is located in "San Pietro in Vincoli" basilica in Rome.
Argh. Time to pack my suitcase so I don't have to worry about it in the morning.
Goodbye Chicago.
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?!
Posted by ms. sizzle on June 07, 2006 | Reply
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.
Posted by FrancesDanger on June 07, 2006 | Reply
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......
Posted by The Ref, LGC, England on June 08, 2006 | Reply
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.
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.
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.
Posted by ChillyWilly on June 08, 2006 | Reply
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.
hi! Navy Pier always has a fireworks show every Wednesday and Saturday night. :) Just an fyi.
Posted by jsy on June 08, 2006 | Reply
That 3D image looks stunning!
I hope you don't mind me asking. How do you show different avatars on your posts?
Posted by charles ravndal on June 08, 2006 | Reply
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?
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.
Posted by Hannah on June 09, 2006 | Reply
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