^ this is why people hate the 1%
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
Jeff is the 1%
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
Jeff is short for Mitt Jeffney
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
Is the mr. stuck between stations, A? I hope he at least has a seat.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
fire is apparently at roy's furniture on sheffield
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
i just texted -- he's on a bus! phew.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
Yay!
Oh shit, not Roy's!
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
haha that sounds ridiculous but I like that store. They had decent furniture for cheap and they delivered it and set it up for you. It's where we got our bed and our dresser and one of our chairs.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
I had been at work since 6:30, so I didn't want to be enraged by a train delay.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
Also, why does a fire at Roy's furniture on Sheffield necessitate suspending trains? It's not near a train station.
I guess it's near the tracks. Okay. I suppose you don't want trains running through billowing furniture store smoke.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, we just got an email about this at work. I can't remember ever having gotten a similar notice. I'm probably not leaving for another couple hours, so hopefully everything will be OK by then.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
yes the sun-times story said roy's was "engulfed" so i guess a pretty big fire?
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
what a weird word
It's a lot of smoke - http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8680800
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
LL, please give your K8ie my condolences about Roy's. I know she was a fan, too (she is the one who told me to shop there). I had been meaning to go there to look for a kitchen table.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, weird. Ok.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
Lots of smoke at Lincoln/Fullerton.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
apparently the metra to ravenswood isn't running either due to a fatality?!?!
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
End times!!!
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
All the news sites are telling people to take the 35/22, which was my first alternate, but that's going to be complete chaos so I need to find a more creative solution to this problem.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
Hey, do you remember very lovely mark e who came to Chicago and had drinks with us? fuck cancer I had missed this, so wanted to note it here in case anybody else had.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
I never met him, but I read that thread and couldn't even manage to fomulate any kind of meaningful response. I just can't even begin to imagine that kind of pain.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not saying anybody should feel obligated to post anything (at all) - just that I had missed the thread and would have posted sooner had I seen it.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
Airports are probably fine but I associate them so firmly with stress/frustration/physical discomfort/flying somewhere I don't want to go, that I hate them by proxy.
I mean, they're not as fun as heavy traffic on the Kennedy, but I still love them very much. :D
Something really fucked is happening on the Halsted bus line. I think bc of the fire from what people are saying on phones. Driver letting people on thru the back door, dozens of people at each stop can't fit. Yuck.
I have a comfy window seat with cold a/c though.
JESUS. North & Clyborne has at least 50 people waiting at the bus stop.
Xp I haven't checked the cancer thread yet, but I remember Mark and hope he's ok....
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
Of course I remember Mark E! I'll go see what's happening. He is a delight.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
I've been on the Lincoln bus for an hour and am just at Fullerton. Got a seat though.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
Well I missed my shrinkpoinent bc of this mess. The mayhem! It's like Independence Day on this bus route :-/
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
It seems improbable but it looks like i can see smoke all the way down at Fullerton.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
Almost sure of it.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
My plan B (36/22) was a bust. Plan C (13-something, 15-something) was fucked. Like, you couldn't walk by on the sidewalk for all of the people waiting. So I decide to walk north on Clark until the cab competition thinned out. Made it to Clark St Ale House. Having a beer.
…to be continued
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
i just realized that i have a condo meeting tonight5 hour fac mtg + condo meeting in one day is a spelunking expedition into the pits of hell
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
I made it home before 5 PM, ran 6 miles in less than stellar air quality, and then ate a peach pop.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
Get an I Go and come pick me up? :D
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
Also stop gloating. Your wife is trapped in River North or wherever the hell I am.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
But you're having beer and I am not.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
You might as well eat dinner there because I forgot to take out chicken. But by the time you get back it may be defrosted anyway.
People by my house said you could smell smoke in the air.
I ran, too. To my doc's office. Sucked. But he gave me a Diet Coke.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
The only food here is pretzel rods. ;_;
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going back out to try and get a cab in about 15 min. Hopefully northbound 22 buses are okay by now. I'm buzzed enough to not be too miserable if I end up standing with my face in a stranger's armpit.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
They're playing Bad Religion.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
Now Better Than Ezra "Good." I'm totally going to sing to the dude next to me talking about his PC setup and making dick jokes. Y'all know how much I like to sing this song.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
WahhhawwwawwwwawwwawwWAHawwww
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
STAND DOWN RED ALERT. I walked out of the bar and into a cab. I repeat: stand down red alert.
We're stuck in traffic now, though, and "I Did It All For The Nookie" is on the radio. Lolllllll at me forever.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
I can't believe it's actually 80 degrees out here! The dew point must be insanely low b/c it feels AMAZING out here. I got a chill a minute ago when the wind hit my sweaty neck. Dry heat, yo!
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
Dew Point: 36 °F
That's awesome.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
This is Je55e J3ndra with traffic and weather on the eights.
Ah! Turns out that I never knew where Roy's was. I thought it was at Lincoln, Irving, and Damen. No wonder there was smoke in Lincoln Park.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
Boy was today a horrible day to have to drive. 2.5 hours to get home. LSD was a parking lot, 1.5 of those hours were simply getting from Balbo to Fullerton. I considered leaving my car overnight and taking a cab, but my boss called and said he abandoned his cab because it was just sitting and not moving anywhere.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
Looks like Roy's is pretty much screwed, they're going to tear down the whole building now.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 12:00 (eleven years ago) link