Yuck, Glad I Left Early

Article in yesterday's Sun-times:

DePaul University Lays Off 114 Staff Members:
"The Lincoln Park-based school [i.e. Depaul] said it’s facing financial headwinds due to a significant drop in enrollment among international graduate students, an increased demand for financial aid and the rising costs of benefits."
Chicago Sun-times (12/15/2025)

Preparing for the #BigChilly

Getting ready for the #BigChilly -- bought a whole bunch of groceries! (Plus a case of beer, naturally!)

New Year's Resolution

Fried Chicken?   Buy a whole year's worth!   I need it!   We all need it!   #NewYrsResolution 🙂

Yowza, Snowy Corner

Yowza! Snowy corner at Clark and Wellington (looking north) ...

Name-Change to Street in Berlin

Interesting change of name for a street in Berlin. Just noticed! It's gone from Manteuffelstr. to Audre-Lorde-Straße -- at least the section which I used to live on. More info here:

Part of Manteuffelstraße to be renamed after American poet Audre Lorde ...

No Sandwich for Leo :-(

Birds wouldn't share their sandwich with me! Not one offer to join in and take a bite :-(

Tag der Mauerfall (Day the Wall Came Down)

Yup, I've written about this before (link). It's a day I'll never forget...

Today's Proceeds ...

Sick of finding all this money on the sidewalks :-) I mean, do I walk for a living???

Spare me the App!

'Get the App' -- um, not me, thank-you ...

Nice Rewards for Nice Flu Shots!

Got all these nice presents/rewards -- just for getting those Flu & Covid shots! It was a shoulder-to-shoulder affair -- one side (i.e. shoulder) got the covid shot and the other side got the flu thingee!

Weekend reads ...

Nice bunch ... :-)

Enjoying Lunch with Honest Abe

Enjoying lunch (italian beef sandwich) with Honest Abe ... It was a nice day with nice weather so I walked downtown and back.

1st Cool Evening

1st cool evening in Chi-town -- upper 40s. 1st day for the apartment heater -- I set it to 69.

Banned Books

Discussion of banned books over at Pen.org:

596 Books Banned by Department of Defense Schools Include Titles on Democracy, Feminism, Racism

Atlantic Magazine (11/2025)

Happy to say, I was able to track down next month's Atlantic Magazine a bit early. Loads of interesting articles! [link]

Purdie Poster!

Purdie poster! Got it at today's 'Rally & March'.

Another Fraud from PayPal

Wonderful -- another fraud from PayPal. This one says I'm being charged $449.88 for a 'Springfield Armory Gun', no less. :-(

Junk Email From Spokeo

Junk email from Spokeo:

"We may have found court records matching the name Leo Klein — Come see what we found!"

-- Really?

So Happy! Happy!

I wake up and remember there's still one more hamburger in the fridge to munch on! #reason4living 🙂

Today's Purdy Purdy

A bit south of Diversey -- known affectionately as 'South Lagoon'