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3639 Wrigley Rooftop

June 1st, 2011 · No Comments


Great view from the 7th floor “sun roof” into Wrigley Field.


Sheffield Street


Corner of Waveland/Sheffield


Corner of Addison/Sheffield


The Red Line


3639 Wrigley Rooftop Badge

We had a Roundarch work outing last week and I was happy to hear we were going to 3639 Wrigley Rooftop. I’d never been to any of the rooftops around Wrigley Field and I was excited to check it out.

3639 Wrigley Rooftop is a multi-level building with many different features. The 1st floor is the main entrance. Actually the 1st and 2nd floors are also private residences. The 3rd floor is a fully enclosed area with multiple bars and all different food and snacks and seating where ever you turned. The 4th floor was partially covered, but still pretty open to the elements. The 5th floor was just restrooms and an area where you could get made-to-order grilled sandwiches (burgers and dogs, etc). The 6th floor was like the 4th, covered, but open. The 7th floor was the “sun roof.” The reason I tell you all this is because unfortunately on the day of our work outing the weather took a turn for the worse. It was about 40 degrees outside, raining and very windy. So, usually this building holds 250 people inside and outside, on all levels, but on that day, they were all trying to jam into the enclosed 3rd floor, where you couldn’t even see the game!

It was fun to get out of the office and check out the rooftops, but this was not the ideal situation. Butts to nuts inside or freeze your ass off outside! I hope Roundarch decides to do this again next year and I hope the weather is better. I think rooftops are probably a really fun day, just not this day exactly! At least the Cubs won!

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Cubs vs. Cardinals Stormy Night Game

May 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Last Wednesday I went with Danny, Jen and Chad to see the Cubs take on the Cardinals. We lasted for about 2 innings before we made a run for it underground. It was like a Godzilla movie… where everyone sees Godzilla coming and flees. We saw dark black clouds rolling in. Parts of the sky were even freakishly bright red. Everyone in the stands made a run for the aisles to get out of there. We finished our beers underground and before we could leave, the skies opened up. It was raining so hard, the roads were immediately flooding. Needless to say the game was delayed. At some point we made a break for one of the bars across the street. We ordered dinner and as our food arrived the game resumed. We watched the Cubs beat the Cardinals 11-4 from the safety of a bar across the street!

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Easter Wrigley

April 25th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Dallas and I spent Easter at Wrigley Field with Todd and Kelly watching the Cubs lose to the Dodgers. I think the Cubs are now 11-10 now. Not that surprising, really!

We met up with Kelly and Todd at the new Sports Corner, which I’d never been to. It used to be kind of a dingy, dive bar. Then they demolished it and rebuilt it and now it’s a nice multi-level space with a rooftop beer garden. The old Sports Corner used to be constantly packed to the gills on game days. The new one was not, but the whole city was so empty yesterday because of the holiday. Who knows how it is on a normal day.

At Wrigley we played “the cup game.” The first rule of the cup game is to empty a cup, i.e. chug your beer. After that, everyone puts $2 in the cup. Each player takes turns holding the cup then passing it. Each turn lasts as long as a baseball player is at bat. If your batter gets an out, you have to put a dollar in the cup and pass it to the next person. If your hitter reaches base, you get to take a dollar out of the cup. If your batter gets a double, you get to take $2 from the cup. If your batter gets a triple, you take $3 from the cup. If your batter gets a home run then you get to take all the money from the cup and everyone has to re-ante up $2. I think that’s how it went. Might not be the exact rules. Anyway, I lost about $3 on this game and no one was a big winner, so we used the money to pay for drinks and food later on.

After the 7th inning stretch we went to Bird’s Nest. I don’t usually like leaving before the game is over, but the Cubs were getting killed and it was cold outside. Todd kept talking about how great the wings were at Bird’s Nest. I am not a big wings fan at all. When Dallas orders them, I might eat one.. if they look meaty.. but that’s about my limit. Well, maybe the Bird’s Nest wings really are that good, or maybe it was all the Miller Lite, but I ate probably 6 wings, setting all sorts of personal wing-eating records! I liked that the wings were not soggy at all, very crispy. And the sauce was delicious.

This was the first game I’d been to at Wrigley since 2009! Wow, crazy. I went to a Cubs game last year, but it was in Milwaukee. Nice to be back in the friendly confines.

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Working in New York

December 18th, 2010 · No Comments

This week I was in New York working on a new account I’ve been assigned to, Bloomberg Sports. Their office is located in Midtown East. It is a crazy busy building, a big corporate office, but very modern and contemporary. It reminded me of Google a bit in the way that they have all the free snacks and drinks you can think of. And they are very green and make as much as they can compostable. The sports area has big flat screen TVs that play ESPN all of the time. People randomly shout out “So and So was taken by fill-in-the-blank MLB team.” Interesting. I’m not a huge baseball fan, but sports is a really cool account to be on. I am learning a lot on this project so far and am looking forward to my work in the upcoming weeks. BTW, I’m working on designing iPhone portion of our project, so that is fun.

The office is located a block south of Bloomingdale’s. While I didn’t really have time to shop, I did pause for a moment to look at their holiday windows and to take this short video.

You can almost hear the music playing over the taxi cab horns. Oh, New York.

While I was out there I also managed to get a really horrible photo taken for my security badge. I don’t think the camera at the security desk knows how to take a good photo. Everyone’s photo is pretty horrible. They only have to wear it around their neck every second of every working day. Pretty much you’re wearing the worst representation of yourself.

My photo makes me look like I have a Hollywood Bumpit or that I’m doing a Snooki impersonation! I looked in the mirror right after this photo and I DID NOT look like this in real life!

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Cubs vs. Brewers @ Miller Park + Steph’s Birthday

April 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Last year I had a lot of fun with my brother going to a Cubs vs. Brewers game at Miller Park in Milwaukee so this year he got us tickets again. This year I brought Dallas and Killian with me.

We road tripped up to Milwaukee and hung out at my brother’s house for a while. I drank some beer from the Horny Goat Brewing Co., a craft brewery in Wisconsin. I liked the light Horny Blonde. I bet this is a good summer beer.

Stephanie’s 14th birthday was a few weeks ago so Dallas and I brought a gift that we went in on with my parents.

Her gift? A digital camera! This is the year that Stephanie got a cell phone for her birthday, then was allowed to join Facebook, and now she can post photos with her new camera. Big year!

Steph is pretty much taller than me now. I wonder if she’ll grow more or just stay around 5’4″ or so like I did. In 5th grade I was the tallest kid in my class then I never grew any more. Also, check out her hair. She dyed it a dark brownish red. I think it looks really cool.

Jessica’s birthday is in a few weeks. She wouldn’t talk to me while we visited (of course) but i told her she needs to tell me what to get her, or else I won’t know. She still wouldn’t tell me!

After visiting for a while, we headed out to meet Amanda (who had been at work) for a bit of dinner before the game. We’d wanted to tailgate but it was cold and rainy. We decided to go to the Milwaukee Ale House, where we ordered a bunch of appetizers to share. I tried a beer they make there called Downtown Lites, a light beer made with a bit of Wisconsin honey. Yum!

This was on the back of my coaster at the Milwaukee Ale House:

After the Ale House we said adios to Amanda and headed to the game. My brother had preferred parking so we got to drive right up to the stadium to park. Score! Before the game started, I got my photo with the German sausage, otherwise known as the brat, and the Italian sausage.

Our seats were right down from where this sausage display was. Last year we were just out from 3rd base and this year we were about the same distance out from 1st base. This was the view:

At the park I didn’t really eat much because I was stuffed from the Ale House, but I did enjoy some Leinie’s Honey Weiss and Lakefront Brewery’s River West Stein Lager. Killian kept making fun of the beer vendors because they were all wearing these florescent yellow vests, but I thought the hotdog vendor’s uniforms were even funnier:

Dallas was interested in trying some chorizo sausage so we went for a walk around the concourse. Not every stand had all the different sausages so we had to walk around a little bit. When we found the place, it sold a bunch of different kinds of sausage, maybe all the ones in the sausage race? When Dallas got his chorizo it was in a bun, like a regular sausage. Not strange, but last year when my brother and I shared chorizo it came in a tortilla with salsa. Dallas put the secret stadium sauce on his chorizo.

Dallas loved the chorizo and was still talking about it long after the game. My brother said they sell the sauce at the gift shop, but Dallas said it mostly just tasted like barbecue sauce. Klement’s is the official sausage of the Milwaukee Brewers and supposedly they’re making the chorizo and it’s in stores so we might have to look for it next time we go to WI. In the meantime, we just cheered for chorizo in the sausage race and guess what? He won! If you look close you can see him racing to victory here:

Side note: I was just on the Klement’s site and you can play a sausage race game. I like how 6/10 high scores are by someone called “Cubs Rule”. haha

The Cubs trounced the Brewers, who only made one run. For some reason this made it ok for Killian and I to act inappropriately towards the Brat. Poor guy!

Fun day with friends, family, baseball & WI microbrews! Looking forward to next year!

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