THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE THEIR DAN MILLER

Well, Madeira is mine. I got up and went out about 7 a.m. to go ride my bike. I was going to do the longest of the 10 routes I had (about 15 miles) and then finish up with an 8 mile route on Monday to finish it off. But as I got started, I…

Thought I’d post a little update for the masses. Yes, I’m talking to you! Not much going on here lately. Things appear to be all falling in place for our trip to Washington next week. We’ve got the hotel, we’ve got folks lined up to watch the kiddoes. I am giving a talk at the…

Well Carolyn is off at yoga tonight, to which she goes just about every Thursday. The kiddoes are all in bed, and all but Amy appear to be asleep. Amy has this rather frustrating habit that she has recently picked up, where she wanders around her room and/or kicks the walls for 1-2 hours after…

Went out this morning for another bike ride. Not as many hills on this one, and I did pretty well. I have this one listed at 4.5 miles, and it took me 24:38 (8:14:00 to 8:38:38) which is 11.69 mph. I think that one of my distances must be wrong, because it definitely felt like…

Well as I believe I mentioned a few days ago, I have set out to ride my bike the length of every street in Madeira. I finished my route planning this afternoon, and set off on my first ride this evening. The routes that I have planned out are 10 routes of 6.2, 6.0, 6.4,…

DO YOU CARE that if one wants to get an accurate portrayal of where our house is located on online map/satellite providers such as Google Maps, you have to use 7345 instead of 7317? The reason, I believe, is because the Census data upon which these things are based on (or more accurately, the for-pay…

If you missed my last post about the retaining wall, scroll down or follow the link to see my laborings of Saturday morning. After the trip to Home Depot in the afternoon, I went back out after dinner. As you can see from the below picture, I managed to get layers 3 and 4 pretty…

I went out this morning to work on ye olde retaininge walle. I’ve been meaning to work on it for awhile, but it seems like every time I finally have some time to work on the yard, the grass is getting long and I have to cut it. Plus it’s freaking hot. I went out…

Bit behind, so I’ll just recap the final days of our vacation. Day 5 (Friday) we decided to just take it easy. We were kind of worn out of having to commute 2 hours one-way into downtown, so we decided not to on Friday. Our plans were to go see the Lincoln Park zoo, but…

We decided that Amy, Joel and Carolyn would stay back while Scott and I made the trek into downtown. We left around 9:30 and took the blue line to Grand, and the #65 Grand over to Michigan Avenue. So…. apparently Chicago has double-decker streets. I did not know that, and being the road-geek that I…