Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

There are hellsuvalot more than one. Apparently you never read any of my posts. ;-p

I do a lot of drugs. :(

wasn't there something horrifying involving a barn?

And a dead horse. And a rotted floor...?

Indiana Joan

Sounds like you guys are talking about Sybil.

Hey guess what I just ate.

Ok I tell you.

BIRTHDAY BAKLAVA

NO WAY.

Wait. Is TODAY your bday?

mmhmm

Happy Birthday, La Lechera!

Thanks, Jonny Dickfarm!

AND NOW........A BIRTHDAY BALAKLAVA:

http://www.nga.gov.au/international/catalogue/Images/LRG/3622.jpg

That's what I was hoping for! Thanks!

I think someone should come out with a gag gift called "Jesuspirin" which is really just a bunch of sugar pills, but you give them to someone who's really stressed out and needs the soothing pleasure of Jesus in his/her life. They could even be jellybeans.

"Feeling low?"
"Actually, yes. I don't know why I'm so blue"
"Have a Jesuspirin!"
"Oh Carol, you always know how to make me laugh!"

Happy birthday Amanda! I'd revive your birthday thread except I don't know that anyone else on ILX really knows who you are, haha. :_)

You're right, they don't. Thank goodness.

Also, I had my eyes dilated a little over an hour ago, and holy moly, the brightness of the computer screen is kind of freaking me out.

who is jl dickfarm?

i'm me

Good answer.

I really hate snakes.

Indiana Jeff

Its the end of the world here in Deerfield folks. Rain so hard you can't see five feet out of the window, funnel clouds, trees blown parallel to the ground. Fun.

Yeah -- I took the dogs out just in time! 30 seconds after I got in the rain started pounding on the windows. It's crazy dark.

Who took the dogs out? WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF
Who took the dogs out? WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF

Sorry to put that song in your head on your birthday. ha ha

is anything flooded? is everyone ok?

Ok over here! We got a few tiny building leaks, but that's it.

I'm dead.

A montage remembering Jonathan Livingston Dickfarm:
Happy Birthday, La Lechera!

-- Jonathan Livingston Dickfarm, Thursday, August 23, 2007 7:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

i'm me

-- Jonathan Livingston Dickfarm, Thursday, August 23, 2007 7:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

I'm dead.

-- Jonathan Livingston Dickfarm, Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

RIP.

music cue: "Time of Your Life"

omg happy birthday Amanda!!!

HBA :>

I think tonight I'm going to take a box or two of stuff over to my new place and eat here: http://www.jadasoulfood.com/menu.html

Mands, you charming, caring, birthday-having thing!! Have a wonderful thunderstorm/day and take our love with you everywhere you go.

wow, now that's how you do a birthday wish, folks.

That made me happy by proxy.

http://icanhascheezburger.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/128294720808907500callmahlawyur.jpg

I have a sewing table I inherited from old roommate, on which she had written "I TAKE YOU WITH ME EVERYWHERE I GO" in Sharpie and I have no idea what it was reference to, but it made me think of all the things we DO take with us, and other silly things like that.

I keep a smug sense of superiority in my fanny pack.

It's a ghost!

It's been nice unlurking. Have a good night, Chicago thread.

Woah, big branches all over the ground on Belmont near the Beat Kitchen and on the side streets. Someone on the street said that a tornado hit Lincoln Square -- looks like something heavy hit here too. I was on the brown line for over an hour because some heavy branches were on the tracks at Paulina.

Yeah, Kr just called and said the Metra is not running in Evanston because of debris on the tracks.

Oh, wait, I'm sorry, someone said a tornado hit *Logan* Square, not Lincoln. Whatever happened here was either high crazy winds or some kind of funnel action -- like I say, *big* branches everywhere.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-web_rainy-weatheraug24,0,1058127.story?coll=chi-homepage-utl

Police in Bolingbrook reported a tornado may have touched down shortly before 4 p.m. in the Green Valley Forest Preserve, said spokesman Ken Teppel.

Whoa, he was the security guard at my high school. He was young and buff and had strong Anglo-Saxon features. We called him "the Mountie."

In Chicago, a line of trees was uprooted on Logan Square Boulevard.

...

The back wall of a four-story building in the 2700 block of North Ashland Avenue collapsed at about 3:50 p.m. due to weather conditions, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford. No injuries were reported. The building was under construction.

Round two just came through here, worse than the earlier one. Tornado sirens for about ten straight minutes.