Practicalmadness

Returning triumphally to the blogosphere, the editors would first like to extend our sincerest gratitude to the Chicago Transit Authority for not only devising a bus line so sublimely useless as the #70 Division Street Bus, but for managing to screw up my Chicago Card Plus not once, not two times but all of thrice — all while I was standing right there at the window purchasing it.

This situation required me to put on my Adult hat and arrange a conference call of two different phone voices at my credit card company with two different bureaucrats at the CTA, plus myself, plus the ritual sacrifice of a chicken. Now that the purchase has been accomplished, I can tap my wallet to the farebox on the aforementioned #70 bus to get back to Wicker Park.

My workplace triumphs for the week include designing a very manly website for a company run by firemen.