Sarah got sent home. Whoop. I will hopefully leave work soon too.
― n/a, Friday, 24 August 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
the drawing, kenan? i don't know if i have it anymore!
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Before saying anything about it, I looked to see if you had scanned it and posted it on your Flickr.
― jaymc, Friday, 24 August 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
that's really too bad. :(
― kenan, Friday, 24 August 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
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!!
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Passedito on ashland.
― Ed, Friday, 24 August 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link
what kind?
another of my friends got a new laptop yesterday, too... it sounds like a monster of processor/memory, and I am envious.
oh hell yeah... i used to live around the corner from that place, and ate there all the time. A+.
― kenan, Friday, 24 August 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link
i went with the macbook over the pro but did a couple of upgrade options.
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
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!
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm dying to run again. Foot injuries suck.
― Jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― colette, Friday, 24 August 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
What happened to your foot, Jeff?
― Jordan, Friday, 24 August 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
I've never gotten parking permits, I think Jenny got some one time.
― Jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
when I used to live in boystown I got my parking permits at city hall, but there should be a place in boystown, too.
― horseshoe, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Colette, the alderman's office is 1057 W Belmont. you should be able to get permits there.
― horseshoe, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
:*(
― Jesse, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Amanda, what time will you be at OT's?
― Jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
thanks, horseshoe! hopefully i can beat the rain there...
― colette, Friday, 24 August 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Is it weird to warm up a cold latte w/regular coffee?
― Jordan, Friday, 24 August 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Eazy and I still need to have that Golden Tee tournament. Where should we do this?
― kenan, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Broville central station, maybe the place where we did trivia and drank cheap. Hey, is the siskel sold out tonight?
― Eazy, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I hope not!
― Jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Ticketmaster says no.
― Jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Google Black. http://black-google.blogspot.com/
― Jesse, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
You can do that with a stylish script as well.
― Jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
jordan, my answer would be no. i hope you weren't waiting with baited breath for an answer to that one.
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh good.
― Jordan, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Office job hangover is very different from waitering hangover.
― Jesse, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Hey Chicagoans! Where can I buy a used and/or remanufactured (or otherwise *cheap*) typewriter? The one we got is broke as hell.
― Jesse, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link
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?
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
otherwise: craigslist.
Jesse: http://chicagotypewriters.tripod.com/
― jaymc, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
That dude was profiled on Wild Chicago a few years ago.
― jaymc, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
lol tripod
― Jordan, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Which is worse???
― Jordan, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link
i just deleted someone's name preference in our database b/c i realized he hasn't graduated from law school yet.
why is that pertinent?
because he had his name preference as SIR blah blah blah ESQ.
i mean, c'mon, right?
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
I deleted the "esq"
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm gonna vote for OFFICE. Waitering with a hangover involves a lot of chances to distract yourself--walking around, being a goofball (thereby masking your still-drunk-from-last-night status, if you reeeeally did some damage), and generally hiding your sweating and looking ill are easier to pull off in dimly-lit environments.
― Jesse, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
That was my suspicion. Although sometimes with really bad hangovers I just have to sit still, which you can do in an office and hope that it will be mistaken for concentration.
― Jordan, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link
In the United States the term can be used in the same way as in the UK. In the movie Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, for example, a character named Bill defines an esquire as "a very important person"; Bill often introduces himself in the movie as Bill S. Preston, Esquire. In practice, however, "esquire" in the US is most commonly used by lawyers in a professional capacity; it has come to be associated by many Americans solely with the legal profession.
I did not know this about "esq".
Thanks for the typewriter link John! He keeps short hours, but that might work out well and I might get to be out of the office for a while!
I like that my job gives me the opportunity to do some walking and driving.
― Jesse, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
am i a dick for deleting it? i mean, he's a law student. i think he's getting ahead of himself.
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
In high school, I signed up for my Rolling Stone subscription under the name "[My Name], Esq." because I wanted to be able to track the junk mail I subsequently received to that subscription.
― jaymc, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
I mean, I was just curious where my junk mail came from.
he's a dick for wanting to be called "esquire"
― kenan, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link