John and I went on the annual Tour de Shore bike ride with Mike and Andrea this weekend. As usual the ride was a great time! First, let’s look at an overview using the route tracking software that John has on his bike. The ride started at Millennium Park around…

If cndkmen had an illustrator on staff, we could have done a pretty cool graphic showing Liam moving south west to Houston, and at the same time, Debbie, Jeff and Maddie moving north from Ft Lauderdale to Naperville! Debbie and Maddie’s route took them by plane to Kansas City, then…

Last weekend I got to visit Mexico City with Lou, a good friend who has been working in Mexico for years with farmers helping them develop their mezcal (a type of tequila) for the US markets and Bruce, a mutual friend from the neighborhood.  It was a great opportunity to…

Getting ready for the Texas Transfer! Liam spent a busy couple of days getting ready for the drive to Houston, renting an apartment, buying a car, and buying some shirts for work (probably the most stressful of the three – what do corrosion engineers wear to work?). Kat volunteered to…

Post graduation Liam is getting all set for his big move to Houston, having secured a lease on an apartment in the Museum district in Houston this week, he then needed a pair of wheels to drive to Houston (16 hours away) and to get around once he gets there.…

Wow, the 4 years since Liam moved in to college went fast! We went down to Urbana-Champaign for his graduation yesterday. We first went to Liam’s apartment where he showed us a recent poster he worked on for his senior thesis. Thanks Miles for holding the corner down! We got to hang…

Paddy and Kathleen arrived in Chicago last week and summoned some very warm weather – in fact shortly after they arrived we had a very summery day (huge contrast to winter conditions up until that day!) and the report said that it was the warmest day since Oct. 9, 2017,…

In April 4 friends of mine from high school visited Chicago, and we had a great time! Three took the train from KC, one drive from Michigan, and we had a bonus visit from another who drive in from Michigan with his wife on Saturday. Here we are at Sabroso…

  We woke up this morning to an inch or so of snow on the ground, not fun in April. On my way to the el this morning, I took a few pics of some snow in Wicker Park scenes. First, remember our place on Evergreen? It’s in good shape…

Miles’s birthday was last week, and we celebrated on Friday evening with what looks like a plate of fire, but really was a selection of brownies and lemon bars. It looks like Miles celebrated his birthday with just Maddie and Jeff, but everyone else was standing behind the photographer! The…