Saturday, January 2, 2010

Hello, Old Blog

It's been a while since I've written here. I thought this might be a good time to start writing again. It's a promise I make to myself a few times a year, to write more for my own enjoyment. And like the White Sox after the All-Star break, it's a promise too often broken.

We normally spend New Year's Eve in another city - last year it was DC, Toronto the year before that. This year, having traveled quite a bit (San Francisco, Prague and Budapest, and Seattle), we stayed in Chicago for the turn of the decade. We're trying to save money, that's part of it. But we're also planning on traveling more in the coming year, as well. Los Angeles is coming in a few weeks. And I'm zipping around the cities of the Great Lakes for work, now. It made sense to keep it close this year. And while the Skylark isn't a regular hang out for me, it's an enjoyable place to spend a few hours, putting away some drinks and just generally hanging around. All around, it was a quiet New Year's.

I've long thought that how you spend your New Year's Eve is somehow indicative of how the coming year will be. There's always been some sort of metaphor in that for me - sitting in a Canadian dive bar with friendly strangers, making the best of a house party in the Capitol City with people don't know or really like. And in some way that's said something about the state of mind I was in at the time, which in turn informed how the coming year played out. This year, we stayed on the South side, with some friends. It's looking like keeping it close to home is how this year really will happen. So, I'll do my best to keep you updated, and hope that this isn't the only post on City of Progress this year.

Photo by alonzoD.

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