Sunday Digression

Today I had a panic run for my car, scared I'd parked where the city was planning to do street cleaning on Friday, but thank the parking space gods, no ticket decorated my windshield or side mirror. Fate smiled on my car, for a change, but probably not for long.

I thought I saw on a weather forecast last night that it was supposed to warm up a bit today. Warm up from what to what? I still needed my gloves and hat, so I ran back home and picked up my mail. A notice to pay some money for earlier parking tickets awaited me. One year I paid $554 in parking ticket payments. I felt personally responsible for supporting the city. Nowadays, though, they are giving us more than 12 hours' notice of street sweeping, as they were when I first came here.

Well, in Chicago, it's considered progress. What can I say?

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Coming up this week:

• More advice about resumes
• More discussion about semicolons
• More, more, more . . . of everything