So, nine years ago today, I had one of those life changing experiences.  During my first solo skydive, the winds changed in mid-jump, almost tripled in speed, and I had a partial parachute collapse.  I hit the ground, hard. I broke my leg and foot in 13 places.  I was originally told I'd never walk again without a brace or support of some sort for ( Read more... )

So Chicago, like a lot of the U.S., had a pretty mild winter.  Until the end of January.


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So we're in 2021 now.  I feel that most of last year, including the holidays, were all effectively "Blursday."


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In my neverending quest to blog about things from months ago, back in mid-September I took a trip to visit family in Minnesota.  I saw a few friends along the way too.


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So Nick and I took a trip with a couple of friends to Galena Illinois over the Labor Day weekend. It's just a couple hours from Chicago. We got to Galena in time for lunch.  During the day there was beautiful weather so walked around a bit, did some of the walking trails, had dinner and called it a night since a storm front came in pretty quick.  ( Read more... )

So I celebrated another birthday at the beginning of the month.  A couple more and I'll be half a century old ( Read more... )

So life continues in COVID times.  Fourth of July was good, need to post pictures soon, did some social distancing socializing.

In other recent news, I started dating Nick.


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So I clearly have been derelict in posting to my LiveJournal account.  A lot has happened to the world in the last six months!

Not so much in my life, though! Stagnation or stability? I'll go with the later even if it feels like everything in the world has stopped moving forward.

At this point, like many people, I've been subject to shelter-in-place ( Read more... )

So I have been pretty awful about posting.  It's already the end of the year.

Random musings.

Dominican RepublicSo, I have been dating.  As in, I have gone on dates.  Non-committal, but fun.  For example, I asked a lovely man named Tom out to dinner from my "Broadway in Aurora" group after we hit it off in the group one evening.  After that date ( Read more... )