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Friday! Friday 12 April 2013! Friday 12 April 2013 in Chicago! (Trendy is as Trendy Does!)

IMG_2491We woke to a NY times by the door, I went down and had coffee, and then we ate breakfast in the hotel -the  South Water Kitchen.

Shopped for a few items at Walgreen’s: one knows that they are in Chicago when it takes 15 minutes walking by the booze for sale until locating the chapstick!

We cabbed over to the Art Institute Chicago, we we expanded our horizons,

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and ate lunch at the Terzo Piano on the third level – http://www.terzopianochicago.com/

For supper, Sharon had heard from our daughter (via Top Chef) that the restaurant of choice was the Girl and the Goat – http://www.girlandthegoat.com/.

Since we are trend setters, we wanted to eat there, but there were no reservations until May 8. Not to worry, we went straight in, I turned on the 2000 watt smile, and we were soon seated.  We were talking to a threesome at the bar, and when we told then we were from Cleveland, one woman said she was from Avon Lake and Bay Village. (We live in Avon Lake, and Sharon taught at Bay High for years. ) Where in Avon Lake?  On Yoder, which is  the street next to ours.  Small world.

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It is a small plates kind of place,  the food was very,very  good, and a young woman next to us took a picture:

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Meanwhile, back on the home front , the Tribe had a walk off win, and things were jumping at Avon Ballroom.
On Facebook, I connected with a Chicago couple we had met on a CFI cruise.

Friday 6 April 2012: Exercise, study, shop, and sup under a full moon…

I began at the gym, where I trained back, shoulders, wrists, calves, and abs.

We had lunch at the Arrabiata in Bay village - http://www.arrabiatas.com/, on to drop a pair of dance shoes at the cobbler, pick up some bits for Mini at True Value, and then food shopping at Heinen’s.

Back home, I studied some Russian with Rosetta Stone.

We stopped at our son’s house, and then went down to Playhouse Square for dinner with he and his wife at Cowell & Hubbards - http://cowellhubbard.com/ .  (Fine fair and service, but too many male employees for my taste.)

The crowd was younger, affluent, sophisticated,  and apparently not observing many religious traditions.

On the way home, we enjoyed the Full Moon – the first after the Vernal Equinox.

(N.B.:  for at least the third day in a row, no Hindu missionaries came to our door!)

Wednesday 4 April 2012: YAB (Yet Another Blog)

Started at the gym (Fitness Edge in Avon Lake), where I trained thighs, hips, glutes, trics, obliques, and calves.

Then – after preparing myself for Close Encounters with Other Humans – I went to the weekly Dem lunch.

There, a request was made for a new blog to counter Republican efforts.  I volunteered to do it, and by 2100 hrs it was up with a registered domain name.

I studied Russian Language, and rode my bike for more than 7 miles (indoors).

Tue 3 Jan 2012: dems and writers…

I got up and out of bed to make an Avon Lake Dem strategizing /gossiping mtg at 10 at Caribou.

Back home, it was updating blogs and web sites, including our AL Dems site.

In the afternoon, I rode my stationary bike 60 min for almost 16 miles, while being enlightened by a pair of Great Course lectures.

In the evening, I was off to my first participation in the The Greater Cleveland Writers Meet up Group Monthly Meetup, featuring as a guest Michael Heaton of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, selling his book: “Truth and Justice for Fun and Profit”.

Many knowledgeable people, some good information, and some good readings.  I got back in time to do a half hour of my Roseta Stone course, and to watch the new Daily and Colbert shows…

Monday 2 Jan 2012: Gym and the ladies

At the gym, it was chest and biceps, and then Sharon and I went to lunch at applebees in Avon Commons – we shopped at Heinen’s.
Sharon had a Women’s Club of Avon Lake board meeting at our house: I served them and then studied.   Later I rode the bike for  60 mins = 14+ mi, and then worked on preparation for removing the motor on our Mini.

Friday 30 Dec 2011: New years eve squared (eve of eve)

At the gym in the AM it was back and Triceps for me.

We lunched at Red Robin in Avon Commons, and then it was food shopping at that fine Union store Heinen’s.
In the evening, I went to the swearing in of Greg Zilka as Mayor of Avon Lake,

Zilka family, Congress person Kaptor

and then stopped at a Place Well to Me for libation.

Friday 23 December: Memories are made of this…

I started the day at Fitness Edge in Avon Lake, where I trained back, triceps, wrists, forearms, abs, and calves.

Then I had brunch with high school friends Fred Marcel and Bob Titmus at the Rustic in Rocky River – old guys telling stories and exchanging family updates:”The grand experiences of youth become the fond memories of maturity, and each is appreciated in its own time.”  (cf pervo)

I went home, and after a while, it was lunch with Sharon at Bearden’s, also in Rocky River.

There are two old line family dining places in Rocky River: the Rustic, 1947; and Bearden’s, 1948.  I had eaten at both on the same day: this was not planned, as I chose the latter as we were driving by.  We shopped at Heinen’s in Bay Village on the way home.  As we were driving on Lake Road in Lakewood, Rocky River, and Bay Village the past few days, Sharon observed that seeing those grand old homes decorated for the season are a glance into xmas’s past…

Back home, we worked on preparations for entertaining, and then I rode my bike for 33 minutes…

Wen 14 Dec 2011: lifts and spills

Began with a work out at the Avon Lake Fitness Edge: legs; shoulders; obliques; and calves.  We went to lunch at the Panera Bread in Avon Commons, where I spoke with the lovely Connie Schultz.

Back home, we put decorations up in the living room.

Lamp with seasonal bulbs

Sharon had a spill of chilli on our year old wool carpet in the family room, which consumed the remainder of my evening activities..

Tue Dec 13 2011: gifting; healing; dancing; and reminiscing

In the AM, I had a sty on the inside of my upper right eye lid, so I made a noon appt with an eye doctor.
WCAL (Woman’s Club of Avon Lake) had prepared gift baskets for those who receive meals on wheels, and we took them to the center.

Those who manage MOW were thrilled, and said that these would be the only gifts that some receive…
After my appointment, in which she prescribed an oral antibiotic, we picked up my prescription, and then had lunch at Applebees, shopped at THD and then Heinens.
At 5pm, we had a dance lesson with Anya at Avon Ballroom, and then Sharon went to the WCAL annual banquet, while I went to an informal
reunion of Fairview High School Classes of 1958-1962.  It was at the Buckeye Lanes in North Olmsted, and the turnout was about 40-50 people.  I arrived 10 minutes early, had a few anxious moments when no one else was yet there, and then had a nice time sharing memories with friends when they arrived.  The high point of the evening for me was when the bartender told me that when I came in, she didn’t think I looked old enough to be in the group she was   expecting, and I had no problem with that.