Well actually more like 127 but who’s counting? We don’t have the cigarettes but we do have the red wine. And the sunglasses.<\/p>\n
The weather is flipping freezing. It was snowing in Chicago. We know it was snowing in Chicago because every single bloody time the news person announced anything at all to do with Chicago they would say ‘it’s snowing in Chicago’. Yea, right, we know already!<\/p>\n
Went out for a very nice lunch, visited, looked at the weather, decided it would be mad to try to drive from Richmond to Chicago in one swoop, so left around 5pm and are now in a motel ready to do the next leg on to Chicago tomorrow. So updating the blog and checking e-mail while sipping a rather nice red wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well actually more like 127 but who’s counting? We don’t have the cigarettes but we do have the red wine. And the sunglasses. The weather is flipping freezing. It was snowing in Chicago. 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