Friday
Arrived on time. Waited a bit at the Enterprise counter, got our car, a Toyota Camry. I kind of liked it, Bette found it hard to back up – bad visibility. It had a little storage area in the front with AUX jacks for the MP3 player. Zippy. Nice. Uneventful drive down from Tampa. Took [...]
While on a mission in Glen Ellyn, we popped over to Villa Park for an impromptu pre-Saint-Patty-Party with Bette’s cousins, one of which has a boyfriend, Charlie, the proprietor of the Lunar Brewing Company, a small neighborhood bar and microbrewery.
The bartender was personable, and cheerfully handed me my two pints of Total Eclipse Oatmeal [...]
Out on the run after looking at cars, need some food. We were near Crystal Lake, went to Williams Street again. We were not disappointed.
We are trying South Beach now, so were picky about our selections. I picked steak fajitas, hot, sizzly, good fixins, no fries, just three tortillas. Bette had a Southwest Shrimp Salad, [...]
Just checked Rhapsody and the new Neko Case album, Middle Cyclone, is out. So far, favorite track is “Don’t Forget Me”. Good stuff.
Note: The last track, “Marais La Nuit”, is 30 minutes of frogs singing. Sounds like our backyard in the summer. Not the best for dinner party listening, perhaps, but would be real [...]