Visiting family in Illinois. The suburbs are awfully bleak. The only “thriving” area is downtown Naperville, though every part of it with any character is being bought or torn down or painted over. Usually when I’m there I hang out at Java & Juice, what felt like the last non-corporate business downtown. [...]

I have 45 unpublished draft posts, dating as far back as May 2005, lots of which are either outdated, or about which I’ve forgotten what I was going to say. In any case I’m getting really annoyed that the three most recent posts here are just showing things I found on the internet, so,
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