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Tonight, I am pinch-hitting for our regularly scheduled diarist. While this diary is a few sandwiches shy of a picnic (blanket), it has enough substantive material to transcend it of the more random "open thread."
Less substantive:
This ostrich pic is so cool, in it's CGI-ness. .
The zebra pic came out a little bit better.
The kangas told me to get make this shot look good, or else...
More substantive:
On my way back from the zoo, I stopped at the corner of Milwaukee and Leavitt, and walked my bicycle up a short and steep trail leading to the Bloomingdale Trail.
The view, looking SE on Milwaukee Ave:
A look down the scenic and naturous trail.
From the linked article:
France boasts the only elevated park in the world, but Chicago plans to match the feat with the Bloomingdale Trail. Like its Parisian counterpart, the Promenade Plantée, and New York City's proposed High Line , the trail here would transform an abandoned railroad viaduct into a three-mile oasis and cut a green slice through a dense urban streetscape on Chicago's West Side.
Substantive (mmmm.....)
Along with the sightseeing were a couple of encounters with second-hand cigarette smoke. I love the smell. This is not what you would call an uncommon experience with many former smokers, and I stand by my anecdote.
The sad irony for me is that were I to give into having a cigarette at this point of the de-junking process (excepting the nicotine, still chewing the gum), my reaction based on prior relapses would be to get ill upon the first inhale. At which point I would have to retrain myself to again smoke with comfort. Because the nicotine is now in my system, and the name of the game is epitomized on my current refrigerator quote:
The purpose of a cigarette is to sell me the next cigarette.
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