The Impossible Year

Tag: coronapocalypse

  • A Virtual Gameday, 15 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film On Friday, despite their being no baseball for the foreseeable future. The Cubs brought in someone to play the organ at Wrigley Field. I spent upwards of 20 minutes just riding my bike in circles around the park enjoying the moment, and appreciating the smiling…

  • Dr. Kruse of Northside Foot & Ankle, 13 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film So, this post is astoundingly lame (pun intended) but this is my podiatrist. I stopped by his office on Wednesday to pick up a new pair of orthodics because my insurance gives me one a year for free. He’s the third…

  • Jess and Her Walkie-talkies, 12 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Our friend Jess came by and brought walkie-talkies so we could try out the range and possibly communicate from home to home. The advertised range was 2.5 miles. They make it about a mile. Still fun though.

  • My Desk, 11 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Being the nerd that I am, I spent Monday re-organizing and cable managing our home office while listening to Howard Zinn’s ‘The People’s History of the United States’ on audiobook.

  • Mother’s Day Meals, 10 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Given that Beth Ann’s parents are in Michigan and mine are in New York, we weren’t able to really celebrate Mother’s Day in the ways we would have liked this year. As such, Beth Ann made sourdough waffles from scratch (in our Millenium Falcon wafflemaker!)…

  • Gidding’s Plaza – Lombard Lamp, 8 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film The Lincoln Square neighborhood is one of Chicago’s biggest German neighborhoods and tucked away in a corner of Giddings Plaza is a Lombard Lamp, which is an exact replica of ones found on the Lombard Bridge in Hamburg Germany since 1869. It…

  • Care Package Delivery, 6 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film Beth Ann and I have started putting together care packages of art, cookies and sourdough starter, and biking to friends homes to deliver them.

  • Lakeview Station USPS Office Mural, 5 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film My local post office in Chicago has this amazing depression era WPA mural that I always love to admire. To me it serves as an inspiration of what this country can do when we band together to take care of one…

  • May The Fourth Be With You, 4 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film Last year Beth Ann and I went to Disneyland and splurged on some custom lightsabers. This year we had a mock dual on the lawn.

  • Marla and Care Packages, 3 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film I put together care packages of cookies and art and biked them to friend’s homes. Beth Ann put a Hawaiian shirt on the dog in celebration of the spring weather.