From what I heard, the biltmore was a cool building. And yeah, i highly recommend spitting on Tech every chance you get.
The current job is at a company that does barcode junk, which is midly interesting if you're into codes and ciphers (and i'm not). Most of my day is spent pushing a mouse around, packing label orders and moving boxes from A to B. The pay here is miserable and there are no advancement opportunities, so i'm jumping ship. Somehow or the other, i've tricked another company to give me a real engineering job at a good salary and benefits and etc etc etc. i'm stoked about it. Too much more of staring at barcodes would probably make me quit anyway. But yeah, i know a hell of a lot more about barcodes than i would ever care to know. i also honed my tape gun skills to a steely shine. That and $1.75 will get me anywhere i want to go on chicago's excellent public transit system.
i'm living in my first honest-to-dog apartment of my own in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, about a mile south of Evanston and four blocks due west of Lake Michigan. Today it appears that the first 200' or so of the lake have frozen, probably due to the fact that it's 6 degrees right now, with a low tonight of -8. Yes, Farenheit. Hasn't been above freezing in a few weeks and i fucking love it.
Also hominy grits are (imho) really fucking nasty and in no way a decent substitute for sweet, delicious, hot grits. You can get 'em up here but ugh man gross. Despite my hatred for Whole Foods, they have bulk polenta for relatively cheap (polenta is Italian for "grits"). Boil five parts water, salt lightly. Stir in one part dry grits, reduce to simmer, stir occasionally for five minutes. I like mine with salt and pepper and butter and tabasco (preferably the green jalapeno kind, siracha chili sauce is also excellent) and a big hot steaming mug of black coffee (chock full o nuts, plz).
So yeah. I'm digging Chicago and how it is very different than most of what I didn't like about the south. Also I can buy liquor beer or wine in grocery stores here, 23 hours a day, 7 days a week. Traffic isn't nearly as bad, the air is cleaner, the winters are WAY FUCKING COLDER and the land is whoa shit flat. Glaciers are good at that.
ted
The current job is at a company that does barcode junk, which is midly interesting if you're into codes and ciphers (and i'm not). Most of my day is spent pushing a mouse around, packing label orders and moving boxes from A to B. The pay here is miserable and there are no advancement opportunities, so i'm jumping ship. Somehow or the other, i've tricked another company to give me a real engineering job at a good salary and benefits and etc etc etc. i'm stoked about it. Too much more of staring at barcodes would probably make me quit anyway. But yeah, i know a hell of a lot more about barcodes than i would ever care to know. i also honed my tape gun skills to a steely shine. That and $1.75 will get me anywhere i want to go on chicago's excellent public transit system.
i'm living in my first honest-to-dog apartment of my own in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, about a mile south of Evanston and four blocks due west of Lake Michigan. Today it appears that the first 200' or so of the lake have frozen, probably due to the fact that it's 6 degrees right now, with a low tonight of -8. Yes, Farenheit. Hasn't been above freezing in a few weeks and i fucking love it.
Also hominy grits are (imho) really fucking nasty and in no way a decent substitute for sweet, delicious, hot grits. You can get 'em up here but ugh man gross. Despite my hatred for Whole Foods, they have bulk polenta for relatively cheap (polenta is Italian for "grits"). Boil five parts water, salt lightly. Stir in one part dry grits, reduce to simmer, stir occasionally for five minutes. I like mine with salt and pepper and butter and tabasco (preferably the green jalapeno kind, siracha chili sauce is also excellent) and a big hot steaming mug of black coffee (chock full o nuts, plz).
So yeah. I'm digging Chicago and how it is very different than most of what I didn't like about the south. Also I can buy liquor beer or wine in grocery stores here, 23 hours a day, 7 days a week. Traffic isn't nearly as bad, the air is cleaner, the winters are WAY FUCKING COLDER and the land is whoa shit flat. Glaciers are good at that.
ted
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