ginny on June 3rd, 2006

All in all, it was a perfect day here in Suburbia Nervosa. I had friends who were going to be at the Pirate Fest in Port Washington, WI, so my husband David and I had decided to drive up for a few hours. Since getting an early start wasn’t all that necessary, we lolled around [...]

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ginny on June 3rd, 2006

Okay, this makes total sense to me. Last time David came back from an out of town trip, I did this very thing on my own by parking out at the “Kiss N’ Fly” place, which is a turnaround right by the north exit of the ground transportation rail link to remote parking. There were [...]

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ginny on June 3rd, 2006

I rarely, rarely listen to the radio of an evening anymore, but for reasons that’ll become evident in the next post, I’m listening to WBEZ tonight. At the moment, the show that’s on is called Sound Opinions. The two hosts discuss rock music and pop and usually have guests on where they talk about music, [...]

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ginny on June 3rd, 2006

I hadn’t heard about this before, but apparently the FAA has been blocking the development of new wind farms in the Midwest. This came about because of a Congressional amendment requiring an inquiry into whether wind farms interfere with military radar. So, several Democratic senators (including both of my senators, Durbin and Obama, and the [...]

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