With Wings As Eagles: Craig P. Steffen's Blog

it's a hundred and six miles to Chicago

2008 January 26 01:36

May I just say that I f***ing hate Chicago? One would think that a construction project that totally messed up one of the main interchanges in your interstate system might merit a sign, say something like "The I-65/I-80 interchange is under construction. Please take alternate routes". That would keep it from being a complete logjam of all the people from out of town who don't know any better and take it, thus creating a zone of slowed traffic that made it take 1 1/2 hours to get 3 miles. Did I mention it was snowing during this time? May the fleas of a thousand camels nest in Richard Daley's underpants.

HOWEVER, the reason that I ended up driving through the festering construction-zone hell that is Chicago is that I'm attending the Sportair workshop on sheet metal, as pertains to aircraft construction, this weekend. Should be lots of fun, then back to the real world next week. That's right, I'm in Oshkosh...oh yes: