Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

Apparently it is "wire edge"

Fuck this puzzle, it's way too hard for me to do in spare moments at work.

I was going to suggest "wire edge" but when I googled it I found not one printing/binding reference, actually it was all florist talk from wrapping stems in wire-edge ribbon and stuff like that.

Seems like bad puzzle making.

I hate bad xword answers, where when you finally get you're like "seriously? That sucks."

Benefits for seal-clubbing made me think of Kelsey's drawing of the seal or walrus or whatever saying "I'll just roll it into my 401K."

ha! it was a seal who found a peppermint candy on the ground. his name was Mr. Whiskers. He decided to not eat the candy & roll it into his 401K instead.

good memory, john! i don't know why i love that drawing so much.

i wanna see!

goo goo gjoob

Chicago, I love your tacos, less impressed by your blue line and taxi lines.

Sarah got sent home. Whoop. I will hopefully leave work soon too.

the drawing, kenan? i don't know if i have it anymore!

Before saying anything about it, I looked to see if you had scanned it and posted it on your Flickr.

that's really too bad. :(

where did you have tacos, ed?

It might be packed away. I really hope I didn't get rid of it...

in other news (n & s might want to cover your ears): my new laptop came today! it is soooo cute!!

Passedito on ashland.

what kind?

another of my friends got a new laptop yesterday, too... it sounds like a monster of processor/memory, and I am envious.

Passedito on ashland.

oh hell yeah... i used to live around the corner from that place, and ate there all the time. A+.

i went with the macbook over the pro but did a couple of upgrade options.

i can't play with it until tomorrow evening though b/c we're driving to rochester after work so leaf can run a 1/2 marathon tomorrow!

I'm dying to run again. Foot injuries suck.

jenny or jeff (or if anyone else knows this neighborhood)...is there a place i can go get parking permits from somewhere on belmont? i feel like i've walked past a sign near ann sathers that says 'parking permits have moved to this other place' with an address, which i assume is the alderman's office, or something?

my parking lot is already mostly flooded, and i can imagine it getting worse this weekend, so want to be able to street park if i have to. but the stupid city of chicago site tells me to go to cicero or something.

sorry, i am rambling. i just woke up. unemployment doesn't suit me.

What happened to your foot, Jeff?

Also Nick, what do you guys do about cat hair + wood floors? Vacuum?

I don't know. Two days after my run last Saturday I got this bad pain on the right side of my right foot. It go progressively worse until I went to the doctor on Tuesday. X-rays showed that nothing was fractured or broken, but it continues to hurt every step I take. I have a podiatrist appointment on Monday.

I've never gotten parking permits, I think Jenny got some one time.

when I used to live in boystown I got my parking permits at city hall, but there should be a place in boystown, too.

Colette, the alderman's office is 1057 W Belmont. you should be able to get permits there.

Man! I went to the grocery store and when I got back all 3 attorneys went out to lunch without me!! Just me and the dog here.

:*(

Amanda, what time will you be at OT's?

thanks, horseshoe! hopefully i can beat the rain there...

Is it weird to warm up a cold latte w/regular coffee?

yikes, jeff. that sounds like what happened to me a while back & it ended up being plantar fasciitis even though it is supposedly mostly down the center of your foot. they mostly told me to roll a tennis ball underneath it and take advil. all the research i did indicated that in the past people were told to rest it until it went away & now they say that it's better to stretch it out & use it & work through the pain.

Eazy and I still need to have that Golden Tee tournament. Where should we do this?

Broville central station, maybe the place where we did trivia and drank cheap. Hey, is the siskel sold out tonight?

I hope not!

Ticketmaster says no.

Google Black. http://black-google.blogspot.com/

You can do that with a stylish script as well.

jordan, my answer would be no. i hope you weren't waiting with baited breath for an answer to that one.

Oh good.

Office job hangover is very different from waitering hangover.

Hey Chicagoans! Where can I buy a used and/or remanufactured (or otherwise *cheap*) typewriter? The one we got is broke as hell.

i tend to not like adding coffee to my lattes b/c the coffee interferes with the espresso flavor but at this hour, who is left to care about that?

jesse: i wonder if universities have them in their recycle rooms. by "recycle room" i really mean the giant warehouse where they collect various things to reuse campus wide & often sell to the public as well. otherwise, i would look for a mom & pop office supply store or maybe even office max has some processors? quite a few offices still use that shit.

otherwise: craigslist.

Jesse: http://chicagotypewriters.tripod.com/

That dude was profiled on Wild Chicago a few years ago.

lol tripod

Office job hangover is very different from waitering hangover.

Which is worse???