My HEMA group will be starting up a new beginner class later this month. If you’re local and interested, come see what we do! Ask me here, if you have any questions.
Tag: local
2023-12-24 06:47
Not many people out-and-about before dawn on a foggy Christmas Eve.
2023-05-10 19:38
“That felt like going downhill,” said Jackie.
“We’ve been living in Central Illinois too long,” said I.
(To be fair, it was downhill—just barely.)
2022-11-21 12:44
Our first look at the lease from new owner of Country Fair Apartments made it clear that they would ruin the place—a place we’d lived happily for 20 years—so we moved out. Even so, I’m a little surprised to see this just 8 years later:
Because the heat is not working, 9 out of 42 buildings are considered unlivable…. If the property owners don’t fix the issues in a timely manner, tearing down the buildings may be the next step.
https://foxillinois.com/news/local/tenants-living-without-heat-at-apartment-complex-court-steps-in
In happier times.
2022-11-06 09:18
Thought it might be getting a little late for third coffee, but looked at the clock and it was barely after 9:00 AM! Maybe we should go back to standard time every day!
I would prefer local solar time, and had thought next best would be permanent standard time, but maybe setting the clocks back an hour every day would be even better!
2021-08-09 14:23
Now there’s a show I’d pay money to see!
Champaign-Urbana apartment market
Breaking news in the latest issue of the real estate trade journal Duh! “Apartment landlords call for lower tax assessments!”
I found this whole article especially hilarious because Jackie and I lived very happily in Country Fair Apartments for more than 20 years before these clowns bought it, renamed it Grammercy, and managed to ruin it in less than a year:
Grammercy said its annual net operating income has dropped from more than $1 million in 2014 to a loss of more than $300,00 in 2018. It said its vacancy rate was 41 percent in 2018.
Source: Apartment landlords call for lower tax assessments amid higher vacancy rates
In what is not at all a coincidence, 2014 is the year we moved out—the last year that the old leases were in effect. I wrote a whole post about the preposterous non-lease that they wanted us to sign: Why we moved.
For those incompetents to be losing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year is richly deserved, although I am sorry if it ends up hitting Champaign and Urbana’s tax base.
2019-09-05 13:26
Check out the spectacular owl on the table in the Steeple Coffee House. Having after-lunch coffee with @jackieLbrewer.
2019-09-05 12:29
After walking at Allerton, we’ve stopped for lunch at @monarchbrewinco. I’m drinking their Wicked Pissah NE IPA and @jackieLbrewer has picked a selection from a brewery 50 miles south, the Effing Brew Tyrant’s Blood red rye IPA.
2019-07-01 12:36
Jackie got a coupon for a free entree from @Houlihans for her birthday. We’re both drinking the @BlindPigBrewing UofIPA. @jackieLbrewer