On It's hard to dislike people if they're nice to you
Posted on August 21 at 8:27 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
lakennedy: That sucks. I know how that goes. I had similar issue when I was at school at UW-Milwaukee.
Also, the first apartment I ever had, on Farwell Avenue in Milwaukee, was on a block with METERS. So that made things almost impossible. And at the time, my car was technically still owned by my dad, so it had Minnesota plates, and so I couldn't get a permit to bypass the meters from the city of Milwaukee.
It took me a few years to get used to it all. Saint Paul, where I grew up, has relatively few parking rules. I could leave my car on nearly any street for as long as I wanted without any trouble...
Posted on August 12 at 6:32 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
I never paid a whole lot of attention to the Olympics as a kid. I mean, I remember them being on TV (the earliest I can remember--barely--is Seoul in 1988), but we only had it on randomly in the background.
Being from Minnesota, land of the frozen tundra, we were always more interested in the Winter Olympics, anyway.
But I found myself watching more attentively this year, which I'm sure is because the opening ceremony was so absolutely fantastic.
Also, it's allowed me to participate in the first conversation I've had about sports in like five years. :-)
On I need to drop the Sun Drop
Posted on August 6 at 8:39 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
I bleed Diet Coke. I'm famous for having a ridiculous addiction. So I understand. At least it's diet, right???
Posted on July 30 at 7:49 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
LOL. I don't think it's available to the general public. Scientists do use luciferin, though, for cancer research, among other things. The luciferin is injected into the bloodstream and helps to show how tumors have grown or shrunk, etc. But they haven't figured out how to replicate it themselves, so they still have to get it from actual fireflies...
This all sounds very sci-fi.
On Feeling the gas-pump squeeze
Posted on July 11 at 2:17 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
When I came from Milwaukee to work at the Gazette two and a half years ago, I had planned on living in Madison, too. But the gas prices even back then (~ $2.20/gal.) were too much for me. So instead I rented an apartment three blocks from work and it took me four minutes to get to the office every day...on foot.
Also, my old car broke after five months, and I would have been in big trouble if I had been living in Madison.
And gazettefan: Thanks for making me laugh out loud. :-)
On Feeling the gas-pump squeeze
Posted on July 10 at 8:25 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
I've filled up Aunt Sylvia (my geriatric BMW) a grand total of two times this year. At $65 a pop. Otherwise, I nickel and dime it. (Or $5 and $10 it.)
On What happened to neighborhood commerce?
Posted on July 10 at 9:31 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Thanks, everyone, for the very insightful comments. What you've said pretty much confirms my suspicions that Janesville wasn't big enough to support neighborhood commercial districts until the 1950s or later, when the automobile reigned supreme.
I understand it's not the city or any one entity that determines the retail and commercial landscape. It's all about what the market demands, and when Janesville began to grow enough to necessitate development away from downtown, the market demanded car-friendly areas such as the Milton Avenue corridor, complete with wide lanes and parking lots.
It makes sense then, that the image of these walkable neighborhood business areas that I have in my head is of '20s- and '30s-era brick storefronts. Janesville doesn't have them because, as a city of only 25,000 by 1950 (a statistic that surprised me), it hadn't been necessary to build them.
I think more than anything, having grown up in a larger area with many of those neighborhood districts, I miss their quaint atmosphere (when they're kept up). No matter what the market demands, there's nothing quaint about a strip mall.
Thanks again for the explanations. I think I get it now. :-)
On Inked.
Posted on July 8 at 1:52 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
I love tattoos...in moderation and as long as they're tasteful.
And I doubt it's a fad that'll ever fade, considering people have been getting tattoos at least since the Neolithic period (up to 12,000 years ago).
On Inked.
Posted on July 7 at 6:46 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Don't worry; you won't be the only Off The Clock blogger with multiple tattoos forever. I intend to even up the score. But I'm only getting just one more; two is a good number. Then I'm done.
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On Getting the lead out!
Posted on August 24 at 2:52 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Nice, Beth, nice. After my health risk assessment, the nurses told me I should be eating more calories each day. I, of course, disagree.
Also, I think the next time we do one of these audio thingies, you'd better warn me first, That way I won't constantly be talking over the person you're interviewing. ;-)