Burritoville, Chelsea, Manhattan
On Friday night after dinner, Jeff, John and I went to some random bar called Honey to have another beer. We sat outside at a small table and I sat with my back to the sidewalk. I happened to glance over my shoulder and who was walking down the street? Eddie! I haven’t [...]

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Clark/Lake Station, The Loop, Chicago
US Cellular customers can now talk on the CTA trains, even underground. This would annoy me more, except that my commute is on the Brown Line now, which is completely above ground and therefore people have always been able to use their cell phones on the Brown Line trains. And they [...]

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Amtrak Seating, Chicago

Between Chicago & Milwaukee

Between Chicago & Milwaukee
Riding on Amtrak reminds me of flying on a plane. The tickets are the same, the seats recline, there’s a tray table.. except you can get there like 2 minutes before the train leaves and not an hour or two. One thing I really liked about the [...]

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Everyday for the past week or two, sometimes more than once/day, I’ve gotten a call from an automated voice:
“This is a service of Global Tel-Link. An inmate at Davidson County Hill Detention Center has attempted to place a call to this number….”
uh. hold up.. an inmate?
I think I’m going to contact them now because I’m [...]

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My Phone Number Has Been Changed, Tribeca, Manhattan
Ted told me that these flyers are being posted all over the neighborhood we live in. When I walked outside of work there was one posted on the sidewalk mailbox. Are they all over Lower Manhattan? I called the phone number expecting something promotional and what I got [...]

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