Thursday: Hili dialogue

October 22, 2015 • 5:10 am

There is no joy in the Windy City, for the Chicago Cubs lost four straight baseball games to the New York Mets, spoiling our chance to be in the World Series, which we haven’t won for—get this—107 years. (And we haven’t won a National League pennant since 1945.) Curiously, yesterday was the exact day that the 1989 movie “Back to the Future 2” predicted we’d win the World Series:

The Chicago Cubs were swept out of the playoffs on Oct. 21, 2015 – the exact day Back to the Future Part II predicted that they’d win the World Series.

In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly steps into a futuristic Hill Valley and is shocked with disbelief by a newsflash that the Cubbies have swept the World Series against the Miami Gators.

Well, so be it; I’m not a huge baseball fan anyway. The only news other than this (which is BIG NEWS in Chicago), is that I get my flu shot today. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, sweet Hili misses me! (Note the picture on the computer screen.)

Hili: Jerry is now in his home in Chicago.
A: And you miss him?
Hili: Yes, this sofa is empty without him.

Hili

In Polish:
Hili: Jerry jest już u siebie w Chicago.
Ja: I co, tęsknisz?
Hili: Tak, ta sofa bez niego jest pusta.

16 thoughts on “Thursday: Hili dialogue”

  2. I beat you Jerry!! I got my flu shot yesterday!! GET YOUR FLU SHOT!! Sorry about the cubbies!!

      1. A few weeks ago for me too. Hopefully this year they have a better match. I got a mild flu last year even with the shot. I should be completely inoculated by now…I think it takes two weeks.

    3. Every time I try to get a flu shot, I’ve been sick. Every. Single. Time. I’m waiting until I’ve been cold free until I try again. People who are sick need to stay home & stop spreading their germs at work!! In my office, we can do all our work remotely.

      1. In America, actually using sick leave is highly frowned upon. You’re considered wasting your boss’s precious monetary resources. Never mind that, if you’re sick, you’re not going to get anything productive done yourself and that you’re going to make everybody else sick and take out their productivity as well…you’re being paid to sit your ass in that chair, so that’s damned well what you had better do if you want that paycheck! And if you don’t, there’re plenty of others who’ll be more than happy to sit in your chair and collect your paycheck — so stop slacking and get back to work!

        And what’s this nonsense about working from home? How is the boss to know that you’re working and not wasting his time unless he sees you sitting miserably in your chair? No, how much work you actually get done doesn’t matter; if your ass isn’t in the chair, you’re not working.

        To our European friends…this may seem like over-the-top sarcasm…but it’s not even an exaggeration.

        b&

  5. The curse on the Cubs seems to hold. Shows what good predictions turn out to be. Oh well, always next year…

  7. I was quite sad about the cubs, and have been suffering with Chicagoans in a bar in Hyde park for the past few days while attending the Neuroscience meetings. Chicago was outright balmy the last few day-not the usual climate for mid October. SfN (society for neuroscience) is a busy meeting, so I didn’t get much sight seeing in. I went to the Field Museum today and visited Sue. I got up at some ung-dly time of the morning to see her unveilng online many years ago and have been smitten ever since.

    Last night, I visited Volare ristorante, one of my favorite eateries in Jerry’s domain. Other than that, I became a short term regular at Capri Pizza in Hyde Park. One bartender quizzed my about my belief in souls, free will and quantum indeterminacy (no, no and not like he thought). The other was merely psychotically depressed about the cubs poor performance.

    I’ll be back in three years.

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