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Retired lawyer guy, decent home-cook, random picture taker, & traveler. ChiSox & Spartan fan. Living in Phoenix, formerly Detroit, Chicago & Dallas. I move a lot.
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Greetings and good morning from #Tokyo. Our run of beautiful weather ends today. It’s rainy and colder. #travel #travelphotography

2025 Tokyo Marathon #travelphotography #tokyomarathon

Ohayougozaimasu from #Tokyo. It’s Marathon Day…the reason we’re here, to cheer on our son, and all the rest of the #TokyoMarathon runners. Y’all got this! #travel #running #parenting

www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/02/andr... 🤦‍♂️ #whitesox

Good morning from #Tokyo Highs in the upper 60s expected. Should be a beautiful day. #travel #travelphotography #japan

Good morning from #Tokyo #travelphotography #Tsukiji

Traveling to Japan while in the middle of a home sale, home buy and a cross-country move adds to the stress, but when your child is doing something neat #TokyoMarathon you go. Now we did cut our trip short, but we’ll be there for support as he crosses the finish line. #parenting #moving #traveling

@unitedairlinesual.bsky.social flight from LAX to HND delayed. Got to the airport early to sort it out. Extremely helpful, but we’ve got a 6 hour wait now, but Polaris Lounge access. Pretty nice place to chill if you’ve got half the day to wait. #traveling #UnitedAirlines

To prepare for this week’s trip to Tokyo, last night’s 🎬 My wife had never seen a #Godzilla movie so we went with the OG #filmsky #moviesky

Leaving for Tokyo tomorrow to cheer on son as he runs in the #tokyomarathon. This comes as we’re selling our house & preparing to move x-country. The extended trip we planned on has been drastically cut, and I’ve never been so unprepared for a trip in my life. Adventure awaits 😳 #travel

Nice goal Tottenham #coys

It cost $1.10 to have my mail forwarded. And since we’re going to be in temporary digs for a month, guessing it will be another 1.10 then. Can I just opt out of the mail? 🤷 #moving

This is good.

Got together with a great bunch of friends last night for a farewell get-together. We will miss these friends. Hardest part of moving. #moving

My wife has maintained our desert yard for 5 years, doing everything by hand. She loves it and results are gorgeous. Every neighbor uses a service that hack and blow with their gas-powered equipment that’s incredibly noisy, smells and is an allergic reaction trigger every time #gardening #arizona

So today, the non-profit’s movers are hauling away an entire bedroom worth of furniture and some friends are throwing us a going away party. Our contribution is our open alcohol bottles since movers won’t take them. Somehow, we’ve accumulated many bottles of booze 🤷 #moving

Last of the Goodwill runs made this morning. I feel 50 lbs lighter #moving

Watched Legally Blonde last night for the first time in over 20 years. It’s a fun movie that I enjoyed more now than I did the first time. Reese Witherspoon is a joy. #moviesky #filmsky

3 weeks from closing here in AZ. Movers lined up to haul furniture to non-profit this week, movers lined up to move STUFF to son here in PHX, movers lined up to haul STUFF to friends here in PHX, & the movers to take us cross-country scheduled for Mar 11. Going to Tokyo on Monday 🤷 😜 #moving

My gawd, 4 years of this 🤦‍♂️ www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Once again purging/downsizing, for what seems like the tenth or so time since we sold the family home in 2012 and essentially became nomads. I can’t figure out how we still have so much STUFF. We’re being merciless this time. No more STUFF! #moving

Going through totes and boxes and everything else getting ready to move. Came across this paper and it seems appropriate to post today. I’ve also got similar copies of the Tribune and the Bloomington IL Pantagraph #presidentsday #goodolddays

Last weeks cold and snowy experience in #Chicago turned out to be productive. Made an offer on a condo in the Andersonville neighborhood. It was accepted yesterday so we’re under contract. It’s a new build and expected delivery is early April. We’re very pleased 😄 #movingtochicago

In Chicago and supposed to spend the day with our realtor looking at places. Getting a nice “welcome back”

At PHX for an EARLY morning flight to ORD. Heck, the coffee shops aren’t even open yet. 😩

This morning saw a car-burro collision. Donkey dead, but wow did he do a number on the front end of that car. This was not out in the sticks, but on one of our communities main drags. Be careful out there. The burros are invading! 😆 #arizona

Inspection report came back pretty good as one would expect in a newer home. Couple little things that can be resolved quickly and inexpensively. Just gotta find time to do it. Home hunting in Chicago this week, back for a week, then off to Tokyo. Get back and movers are here 5 days later. #moving

This explains a lot. 😩 #arizona #allergies

Still waiting to hear back on buyer’s inspection. Our realtor chatted with theirs..no specifics, but doesn’t anticipate much. (the house is only 5 years old after all). But there is always something, right? #homeforsale #realestate

The #CriterionChannel has a collection of Claudette Colbert 🎬 this month. We’ve watched “It Happened One Night (a true classic)” and “The Gilded Lily” and thoroughly enjoyed them both. She had an easy-going quality playing smart characters. She’s good. 👍🏼 👍🏼 #moviesky #filmsky

Buyer’s home inspection today. Not overly concerned since only 5 years old, the house's plumbing, electrical, heating/cooling, foundation, roof, & appliances are all in great shape. One time had a buyer submit a laundry list of cosmetic and routine Items. Nixed the sale so hope no repeat this time

Last night’s 🎬 was “A Fish in the Bathtub.” I never heard of this movie, which starred Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. It was a fun watch, nothing deep, except for the fish. Stiller is very good playing this type of role. Think Frank Costanza. 👍🏼 #moviesky #filmsky

Taking friends to Pizzeria Bianco for lunch today. First visit for them. Some of the best #pizza I’ve ever had. They will enjoy. #phoenix #pizzeriabianco

House sold! Off to #Chicago next week to find new digs. Back to the Midwest we go #ope

Planes crashing, egg prices going through the roof. I’m confused by this definition of “great again”

#Pritzker28

Received absurdly low offer on our home. Per buyer’s agent, “he’s old school, you start negotiating by low-balling.” 🤦‍♂️ We’ve come off the asking a bit in our counter, so we’ll see what the old-school response is. 😩 #forsale #realestate #lowball

Last night’s 🎬 was “The Major and the Minor,” written & directed by Billy Wilder. Starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland, the premise is absurd and the plot sorta icky but if you can get past that, it’s a fun watch. 🤷 #filmsky #moviesky

We’ve got prospective buyers returning today for a second look at our home. Fingers crossed 🤞 #forsale #arizonarealestate

Want to jump into the film noir pool headfirst? Watch this film 🎬 3 enormous talents make “Double Indemnity” so good. The writing and cinematography are outstanding. How come I’ve never watched this one before 🤷 #filmsky #moviesky #criterion

So it’s the Year of the Snake? Explains a lot. #lunarnewyear #yearofthesnake

Three showings over the weekend, but no offers 😩 It only takes one, right? #houseforsale #over55 #arizona

Last night’s 🎬 Otto Preminger’s “Angel Face” Mitchum is always so cool, but he was easily manipulated by Jean Simmons in this thriller. I kept yelling at the screen. “Leave Her! Leave Her!” Did he listen to me? 🤷 👍🏼👍🏼 #criterion #moviesky #filmsky

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, photo taken by me in 2022 during a visit to Berlin. Posted today for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. #holocaust #travelphotography

So the Criterion Channel 7 day freebie might have to become a subscription. So many good options. Last night “A Face in the Crowd” with Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau. This is Griffith unlike you’re use to seeing him. Power hungry and manipulative. 🎬👍🏼 #eliakazan #moviesky #filmsky