Santa is my Ride Home

It had been a while since I dropped a Captain line or two. Truth be told, I was getting a little sick of my one note rants. The song "Should I Stay or Should I Go" is really only fun to sing once or twice in row. My apologies to those that have observed this "obviousness" way before this so-called defender of the obvious.

In any case, here's what I know for right now. Chicago is a great place and one I am appreciating more on this go round. Before I left, I had gotten pretty fond of it here. One of my final requirement to move was to figure out why people like it here so much. I did. One example though that I want to offer occurred the other night. Tiff and I are up in Roger's Park here, a neighborhood far to the North of most of the fun. It also traditionally isn't a great neighborhood, but has been changing in the years since Cory and Rick lived up here. Well, the other night a car horn was being laid upon repeatedly. This was not an alarm, which if you live in the city you should not use anyways; your car is too far away for you to save it and theives can disable them faster than you can find the keys. I went out after a few minutes to see if the situation was bad. When I got out there I was able to catch a Chicago Police woman giving the third degree to a lady for waking up the whole neighborhood. Then she determined she was drunk and a going to try to drive despite being told not to and arrested her. In that span of time 4 more cop cars came by. I felt actually "protected" here. Now in LA we called the cops about 5 times due to disturbances at the gas station behind our apt. and never saw one car. Hell, we usually were on 911 hold for 5 minutes anyways.

It is also nice being able to see snow this year. Christmas lights, snow, and generally festive feelings have made this a more exciting season. Last year I remember having a couple days over 100 degrees after Thanksgiving. I even cranked the AC in one of my production trucks that week before Christmas just to feel a slight chill. I was in shorts and a t-shirt at the time. Sounds like heaven? Try it, I did.

I am heading out now to do a little Christmas shopping. I don't have my Jeep here, so it will be aboard CTA. Yesterday Tiff caught the Christmas train. A woman on it said it was a good portent of things to come. That's how I feel today. I fly back to Colorado the night of the 24th. I do feel good things are coming.