Baron von Awesome
@ryanilbasso.bsky.social
I am here - life - to learn and share as much as possible.
I'm not interested in monetizing or "branding" myself on SM. As John Lydon once said (paraphrasing), "You can't make me. I AM me."
Polymath-ish. Often busy.
Clues: ✝️🗣🎶🎤🎸🏰🦅🍻✈️⚾️🏈📖🖋🇺🇸🏴🏴🇮🇹🇩🇪♥️
I'm not interested in monetizing or "branding" myself on SM. As John Lydon once said (paraphrasing), "You can't make me. I AM me."
Polymath-ish. Often busy.
Clues: ✝️🗣🎶🎤🎸🏰🦅🍻✈️⚾️🏈📖🖋🇺🇸🏴🏴🇮🇹🇩🇪♥️
Love Dan Jones.
Have two of his books.
I doubt DT has ever even heard of him let alone reads books.
Good piece.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...
Have two of his books.
I doubt DT has ever even heard of him let alone reads books.
Good piece.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...
Return of the King? Not Quite.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Love Dan Jones.
Have two of his books.
I doubt DT has ever even heard of him let alone reads books.
Good piece.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...
Have two of his books.
I doubt DT has ever even heard of him let alone reads books.
Good piece.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...
December 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Reposted by Baron von Awesome
The Scapa Distillery anounced their new release. It’s a 12 yo single malt #whisky with Rum Cask Finish witch will be present at the William Shearer's Christmas Fayre this weekend.
#Scapa
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#Scapa
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December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The Scapa Distillery anounced their new release. It’s a 12 yo single malt #whisky with Rum Cask Finish witch will be present at the William Shearer's Christmas Fayre this weekend.
#Scapa
www.facebook.com/share/p/1KiZ...
#Scapa
www.facebook.com/share/p/1KiZ...
Taking my daughter and a friend to the Chicago @artinstitutechi.bsky.social via #metrarail and the @chicagocta.bsky.social
Her friend has never been on a train before nor visited this world-class museum.
Should be a great day!
Her friend has never been on a train before nor visited this world-class museum.
Should be a great day!
December 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Taking my daughter and a friend to the Chicago @artinstitutechi.bsky.social via #metrarail and the @chicagocta.bsky.social
Her friend has never been on a train before nor visited this world-class museum.
Should be a great day!
Her friend has never been on a train before nor visited this world-class museum.
Should be a great day!
Finished work a bit early. Got out for a 90-minute, cold and deep snow hike along the DuPage River (IL).
Home now, sun setting, and enjoying getting into a little holiday spirit(s).
This is a tasty one to kick-off Friday evening.
Cheers. 🥃❄️
Home now, sun setting, and enjoying getting into a little holiday spirit(s).
This is a tasty one to kick-off Friday evening.
Cheers. 🥃❄️
December 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Finished work a bit early. Got out for a 90-minute, cold and deep snow hike along the DuPage River (IL).
Home now, sun setting, and enjoying getting into a little holiday spirit(s).
This is a tasty one to kick-off Friday evening.
Cheers. 🥃❄️
Home now, sun setting, and enjoying getting into a little holiday spirit(s).
This is a tasty one to kick-off Friday evening.
Cheers. 🥃❄️
Waited kinda late this year to decorate for Christmas, partially because Thanksgiving fell so late, but it sure makes waking up in December at 0500 much more pleasant.
Happy Friday.
Happy Friday.
December 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Waited kinda late this year to decorate for Christmas, partially because Thanksgiving fell so late, but it sure makes waking up in December at 0500 much more pleasant.
Happy Friday.
Happy Friday.
I was meant to be a colonial administrator in the tropics.
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I was meant to be a colonial administrator in the tropics.
Decorating our Christmas tree this evening.
Some more unusual ornaments include a lefty guitar (well, naturally), a Christmas rat, Mary Queen of Scots (in better times), a Raphael (Ninja Turtle with a dubious mug).
🎅🎅🎅
Some more unusual ornaments include a lefty guitar (well, naturally), a Christmas rat, Mary Queen of Scots (in better times), a Raphael (Ninja Turtle with a dubious mug).
🎅🎅🎅
December 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Decorating our Christmas tree this evening.
Some more unusual ornaments include a lefty guitar (well, naturally), a Christmas rat, Mary Queen of Scots (in better times), a Raphael (Ninja Turtle with a dubious mug).
🎅🎅🎅
Some more unusual ornaments include a lefty guitar (well, naturally), a Christmas rat, Mary Queen of Scots (in better times), a Raphael (Ninja Turtle with a dubious mug).
🎅🎅🎅
December 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Happy to announce I am the new bassist and co-lead singer of the Chicago-based Cars tribute band, The Electric Cars!
We also pair with a female-fronted tribute band, Tragic Blonde Vacation (#NoDoubt, #Blondie, #GoGos). Will play bass too.
Super stoked!
#TheCars
We also pair with a female-fronted tribute band, Tragic Blonde Vacation (#NoDoubt, #Blondie, #GoGos). Will play bass too.
Super stoked!
#TheCars
The Electric Cars | Chicago Area Cars Tribute Band
Chicago's premiere tribute to The Cars.
The Cars Tribute Band
The Electric Cars
Chicago
www.theelectriccarsband.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
December 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Worked in the Loop today.
Our building's lobby, along with Union Station's, is getting into the seasonal spirit.
Our building's lobby, along with Union Station's, is getting into the seasonal spirit.
December 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Worked in the Loop today.
Our building's lobby, along with Union Station's, is getting into the seasonal spirit.
Our building's lobby, along with Union Station's, is getting into the seasonal spirit.
Worked in the Loop today.
Our building's lobby, along with Union Station's, is getting into the seasonal spirit.
Our building's lobby, along with Union Station's, is getting into the seasonal spirit.
December 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Worked in the Loop today.
Our building's lobby, along with Union Station's, is getting into the seasonal spirit.
Our building's lobby, along with Union Station's, is getting into the seasonal spirit.
I'm not sure I would want to live permanently outside the US, but if the means and timing were there, I would like to at least live their part-time to experience it.
www.businessinsider.com/divorced-mov...
www.businessinsider.com/divorced-mov...
I got divorced and moved to Paris at 57. I'm happy I retired in Europe, but life abroad isn't always a fairytale.
When Lisa La Valle, 64, moved to Paris from New Jersey, it wasn't the life she envisioned. She's happier since she moved to Brescia, Italy, and retired.
www.businessinsider.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I'm not sure I would want to live permanently outside the US, but if the means and timing were there, I would like to at least live their part-time to experience it.
www.businessinsider.com/divorced-mov...
www.businessinsider.com/divorced-mov...
Happy St Andrew's Day!
Purchased this new Islay Single Malt last week. Such a beautiful whisky from an area (island) of Scotland I'd love to explore
Hope you're all enjoying your Sunday.
Slainte Mhath! 🏴
Purchased this new Islay Single Malt last week. Such a beautiful whisky from an area (island) of Scotland I'd love to explore
Hope you're all enjoying your Sunday.
Slainte Mhath! 🏴
November 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Happy St Andrew's Day!
Purchased this new Islay Single Malt last week. Such a beautiful whisky from an area (island) of Scotland I'd love to explore
Hope you're all enjoying your Sunday.
Slainte Mhath! 🏴
Purchased this new Islay Single Malt last week. Such a beautiful whisky from an area (island) of Scotland I'd love to explore
Hope you're all enjoying your Sunday.
Slainte Mhath! 🏴
Ho ho snow. Santa told me he's a happy dude today although I reminded him he's 4 weeks early.
After that conversation - and me being me - I got out for a nearby, early morning snow hike. First one of the season. One of my favorite seasons to do so.
Happy Sunday. ❄️
After that conversation - and me being me - I got out for a nearby, early morning snow hike. First one of the season. One of my favorite seasons to do so.
Happy Sunday. ❄️
November 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Ho ho snow. Santa told me he's a happy dude today although I reminded him he's 4 weeks early.
After that conversation - and me being me - I got out for a nearby, early morning snow hike. First one of the season. One of my favorite seasons to do so.
Happy Sunday. ❄️
After that conversation - and me being me - I got out for a nearby, early morning snow hike. First one of the season. One of my favorite seasons to do so.
Happy Sunday. ❄️
My family and I stayed for two nights in nearby Prestwich, Greater Manchester, last year. Lovely, tight community with, along with nearby Heaton Park, a thriving Jewish neighborhood.
Was very sad to hear about this recently.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Was very sad to hear about this recently.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
‘In the presence of evil’: Manchester synagogue attack survivor on the day that shook British Jews
Exclusive: Shot as he barricaded the synagogue, Yoni Finlay describes the assault – and the climate that allowed it to happen
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
My family and I stayed for two nights in nearby Prestwich, Greater Manchester, last year. Lovely, tight community with, along with nearby Heaton Park, a thriving Jewish neighborhood.
Was very sad to hear about this recently.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Was very sad to hear about this recently.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
0630, Sun, 11/30
November 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
0630, Sun, 11/30
Only 146 days until Opening Days, Cubs fans!
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Only 146 days until Opening Days, Cubs fans!
November 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
12 wants his Kool aid chilled.
Apparently.
Apparently.
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
12 wants his Kool aid chilled.
Apparently.
Apparently.
Weekend breakfasts are the best breakfasts.
Omelet with diced landjäger (cured, smoked thin sausage), light hot sauce drizzle, small avocado, grape tomato, small pita bread.
Omelet with diced landjäger (cured, smoked thin sausage), light hot sauce drizzle, small avocado, grape tomato, small pita bread.
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Weekend breakfasts are the best breakfasts.
Omelet with diced landjäger (cured, smoked thin sausage), light hot sauce drizzle, small avocado, grape tomato, small pita bread.
Omelet with diced landjäger (cured, smoked thin sausage), light hot sauce drizzle, small avocado, grape tomato, small pita bread.