Originally Posted by Steely Dan

my wife and i moved last summer in anticipation of the birth of our first child (we needed more space). she took a new job where she works from home, so that kinda opened things up for us in terms of where we could live.

we moved from our small 1-bedroom condo in downtown chicago to a much bigger 2 bedroom condo on the far northside of the city so that i could be closer to my job in evanston (just north of the city). it cut my one-way commute distance from 15 miles down to only 5 miles. i sometimes miss the longer commuting rides, but i love having the extra 80 minutes of time back in my day to spend with my family, especially my little baby girl who is the most amazing little baby girl in the entire history of little baby girls (there's a chance i might be a tad biased).

so yeah, you could say i kinda designed my life for what's important to me at the moment.



and oh yeah, i almost forgot, i rarely wear suits (someone's either getting married or buried). i thought i should mention that because it's apparently also relevant to the thread topic.