And now for something completely different ...

OK, so I sort of felt like showing off.

There, just up from the Chicago flag pin, is my new "Google Guide" pin, that I got for making it to the 7th level of Guides. Aren't you impressed?

I figured that sticking it next to the flag pin indicated my "expertise", as it were, on things in Chicago ... albeit being rather heavy on coffee shops and inexpensive restaurants. What's fun is they send out a monthly report, and, for example, my pics got 3,114 views last month.

Yeah, like you care ...