This week I am in Chicago, working on an United Airlines project.  I was definitely looking forward to coming out here.  A nice city, good food, and blues bands.

Of course I seem to have ended up in the suburbs, miles from anywhere with no transport, and not particularly good restaurants.  The hotel is in Itasca, and the office in Wood Vale

Met up with Fred Giacoma.  He works not so far away from here, so he took me to a mall, where there were some reasonable restaurants.  The place was Italian, all the items on the menu had half portions.  We even had a half portion starter shared between the two of us, and that was ample.  I ate a clam linguine, half portion of course, and still left some.