Day 185 - 10.20.10 - Scenes From the Platform (Part Three)

Day 184 - 10.19.10 - Scenes From the Platform (Part Two)

Day 183 - 10.18.10 - Scenes From the Platform (Part One)

A three part series on some of the typically unnoticed details from Blue Line Platform I stand on nearly every weekday...

Day 168 - 10.3.10 - New Whip

Here is our replacement rental vehicle. It has been a long time since I've driven a non-SUV. Kinda nice...

Day 143 - 9.8.10 - Turn. Style.

Day Forty-Three - The Way To Really Fly

Today was our first day commuting to the city from Park Ridge while Lauren and I live in the suburbs waiting for our condo to be completed. The commute is a short one, nothing like the hour plus trek that I recall from my days living in Elgin while I studied for the bar exam in the summer of 2006. All in all, the commute was not bad; I did a little reading (for work and for pleasure), and on the way home Lauren and I listened to Aziz Ansari's comedy record Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening. Funny stuff I thought (Lauren not so much), especially the bit about his cousin Harris. Comedy gold.

Day Eight - The Commuter

Pictured above you'll find one of the signs on the platform for the Damen Avenue Blue Line stop. The photo faces southeast towards the Loop where the elevated rail system tacks along the diagonally positioned Milwaukee Avenue. I wait for the L right next to this sign nearly every weekday with Lauren. Some people, when referring to Chicago's elevated train system, will write "El" instead of "L." While that seemingly makes sense, "El" being a shortened version of "elevated," those people are wrong. It's "L." Even the CTA refers to the train as the "L." If we're going to abbrev. let's tk. it all th. wa. Yrs trly, DPG.