All Apple All Day

We're quickly approaching the end of the final lease on our condo in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood. We'd like to hit the market as soon as we possibly can, so we've been working to get the house looking its very best. This week - time to fix a leaking shower.

This is a pretty major review - a Peloton bike is a pretty major purchase.  I'm happy to say that the bike lives up to its reputation. 

Will the Siri Speaker look like a Mac Pro? So, finally, it looks like Apple intends to enter the "connected speaker" space. About time.  Even better - there's one potential Siri Speaker feature that would silence Apple's critics forever...

Our Chicago condo is on Armitage Avenue in Bucktown - a pretty busy street, but in a really spectacular neighborhood. As such, we want to make sure that our building looks its best, while still providing privacy and security. That means a decent amount of cleaning, some upkeep, and some construction-level projects.

We've lived in the Chicago suburbs for almost 5 years now.  We kept our Bucktown condo, and have been renting it out.  But now, our original tenants are moving on, and we've decided to move on, too. Our condo is going on the market in 60 days.  BUT FIRST.... we need to get this place looking its best. 

It has taken YEARS, but our biggest project - the finished basement - is finally done. And it's great! We've increased the usable living space in our house by a full 30%. The kids have a living-room area for board games, and there's an additional bedroom and bathroom. And now - finally - we have a built-in dry bar, which matches the built-in home theater upstairs.

We recently added a SONOS CONNECT to our primary home theater. This got some pushback... and I'll grant that it's a little bit unnecessary. Our home theater has an AppleTV and Apple Music... we can already play almost any song ever published, immediately, with voice control. So why a Sonos? Because we have a turntable!