So I’m sitting in the office, and the phone rings.

It’s the sibling-in-law and the sibling.  Calling from the Orange Garden restaurant in Chicago.  Raving about the Sweet-n-Sour Egg Foo Young.

“You didn’t tell me you were going to be there.  I could have driven up!”

(Hey, it’s only– what– 200 miles...)

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(Guess they’re taking revenge for the time I called them from Hall’s!)

Later:  Of COURSE somebody has posted a picture!  And here’s another.

Elsewhere:  Chicago Reader’s review

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A little GIMP art, to emulate a five point chaser.

Below the break, to avoid driving casual readers batty.
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Outside my window, on a grey Wednesday morning.

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