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the snow is up to my waist in the backyard
my WAIST

that's like 2 feet of snow

Just passed 200" inches on the season back home.

two hundred redundant inches

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID

the snow is up to my waist in the backyard

That's incredible. How is that possible? It has to be b/c of drifting, right?

Or did your area get significantly more snow than where I live and work?

Both I think! Definitely drifting, but also amazing shit tons of snow.

Is anyone else just not getting mail? We haven't gotten any mail in at least a week, maybe more like a week and a half. I would assume there was just no mail for us except we were supposed to get a Netflix last Thursday and it hasn't come and the estimated delivery dates on those are pretty much always accurate.

Our mail was a bit fucked up after the Cold of Doom, but it's been back to normal for the last couple weeks.

Ours has been really intermittant since the Poehler Vortex. My New Yorkers have been coming like a week late and we'll go 3-4 days without anything and then everything all at once.

Mail delivery in Chicago has always been a bit laissez faire, in my experience.

It's usually pretty reliable at our apartment, which is what makes it weird. I just submitted a complaint form on their website so I'm sure that will fix everything right up.

Now your mail carrier is going to poop in your mail box wtg

I think our mail has been pretty normal? I think it's unusual to get no mail, not even junk, for a week and a half for sure, though. We at least get some kind of sales paper or charity solicitation bullshit every day.

We had a couple of days of mail.

I got a call back, apparently it's a problem with the carrier's access to our building specifically, so I passed it on to the landlord.

wow, that's service!

is your door jamming because of the cold

I don't think so? It's something to do with the mail carrier master key and our lock. I haven't had any problem getting in.

for the record i am a fan of the US postal service

i just found an apple that was as old as the moon inside my desk drawer

so gross

A few weeks ago I reached into my work bag and squished my finger into a soft tangerine that had been in there for too long. This is why I don't eat enough fruit.

oooh i know the feeling

Some people at my work were talking about this place and it looks insane: http://www.kingspa.com/c-about.php

Yeah that place rules

my friend loves that place but i've only been to the sauna on montrose (paradise!)

ive been to both and paradise on montrose is like a fleabag motel compared to king spa's resort hotel... and they cost around the same!

bring a water bottle though... the dry saunas really really dry you out

yeah
but i like the idea that i won't see anyone i know at the fleabag

does everyone walk around naked at kingspa?

also take the MEDICAL BENEFITS plaques posted all around w/ a grain of salt obv

does everyone walk around naked at kingspa?

― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Wednesday, January 22, 2014 1:38 PM (30 seconds ago)

the dry saunas (all 11 or 12 of them) are co-ed, as is the cafe, the movie theater, and the nap room (!!) and you have to wear the shorts/t-shirt uniform they provide

the baths/steam/showers are mandatory nudity, save for a towel

For the ladies: I rep hard for Thousand Waves Spa on Belmont. Muuuuch smaller than these look but really pleasant.

My old boss was a bug fan of Kings Spa. Any relaxing that occurred would be totally undone by having to drive back from Niles, though. Bleh.

*big fan

LOL bug fan

I will never visit any of these places. All I want is a completely woo free massage. Does not exist.

oh i didn't know they give you little uniforms

no one even has towels at paradise spa, it's just wall to wall nudity

woo free?

man, the lady who does the scrubs at paradise sauna is definitely not interested in wooing
her manner is ideal imo

wearing shirts in a sauna wtf

I mean wearing shorts in a sauna wtf too but shirts is unheard of ime

there is an "ice room" too which is basically a walk-in refrigerator and feels awesome after exiting a 200 degree brick sauna

that place sounds like heaven right now
is it still open 24/7?

yeah and admission permits you to stay for up to 24 hours

being in niles doesn't sound like fun but otherwise
yes pls

they give you a little bracelet that has an RFID chip in it so if you book a massage or order lunch/a smoothie you dont even need to carry a wallet-- they just scan your wristband and charge you on your way out

also look at how hilarious and awesome the furniture in the common area is, i feel like its up yr alley LL

http://i.imgur.com/lVSEjlk.jpg http://i.imgur.com/2Fus9uD.jpg

i have wanted to go there forever! i just didn't want to make the trek alone, and i had been putting off inviting anyone bc i don't know a lot of people who would be into full days of nudity but now i know that there are little uniforms
when are we going?

i have room for 4 ppl in my car.

think it over

well tbh if you invite lady friends it will prob be a half days of nudity

also i saw that fred frith is going to be at constellation 3/3 if anyone's interested?

for what, in retrospect, were completely dumb reasons

Was she wearing a fur hat?

Sarah gets sunstroke every time we go to Pitchfork, it's like a tradition.

Last year she got sunstroke standing in line to get in to Pitchfork. She had to sit down and recuperate before we even made it through the gates.

xxp drank too much really fast and then took a nap in direct sunlight, I think

along with just drinking heavily all the time heavily, iirc

Pitchfork (actually Intonation) Festival, 2005:

http://oi57.tinypic.com/210b03m.jpg

(from Kenan's Flickr, obv)

Oh my.

who's top left?

Jaymc bro.

's bro, rather.

Thanks' bro.

That's when I met you guys! Hope there are no pics of me in there but I'm not going near them to check.

Remember when we did this? Then smartphones were born and it became impossible. https://flickr.com/photos/84722686@N00/sets/72157602099955014

I saw an iphone/smartphone for the first time at that Halloween party where I threw the winis everywhere. That was a shitty thing to do and I'm sorry!

Good old times though, no?

Wow, weird reroute down memory lane. Some of you looked so young!

LL, the Winnis-throwing was a delight.

At that Intonation I drank Kenan's Beam and his sloppy kiss.

I was hilarious 10 years ago. Whaaaaa happened??

LEY steak, $$$-level: Wildfire, Joe's Stone Crab, or Shaws?

I burned my hand at wildfire once. So screw it.

(making) No Little Plans: Chicago 2015 pt 2

When I was 17 I flew out from Philly to go to that Intonation festival

There's a new thread, bro.