Hey hey hey, it's Independence Day! Our country's 249th birthday. The day after our cowardly congress passed an awful law that will devastate the country. So, not much to celebrate, but it's still our country, dammit, and we have to fix it. I started the day with a cemetery visit. As I told himself three …
The Great Escape
Yesterday (Friday) I tested negative for COVID for the first time since Saturday. Oh! OK, what now? I'd come off a four day weekend last week where I got a ton done, and of course I've been mostly cooped up in the apt since then, so was very much caught up on projects and stuff. …
Weirder Weekend
So, yeah, I had Thursday through Sunday off and had a not-unreasonable list of house tasks to work my way through. Thursday, my big thing was some CD reorganization. I'd gotten a new bookcase this spring to dump CDs into, and also acquired a whole bunch more CDs when my friends moved. So I went …
What a weird week
So... sometimes I pull my back. It's always the same muscle, it's on the left. And it makes things ouchy and I can't bend over (shut up) and it takes a few days to recover. Last week, I pulled my back simply by going to work. I sat down on the subway. We pulled into …
Books and books and books
I've been reading a lot this year. This isn't a complete list by any means, just ones I want to share and/or opine upon. Funny Ladies I just finished Leslie Gray Streeter's Family & Other Calamities, which is charming and hilarious (and touching, too). A recently-widowed journalist returns to her hometown (Baltimore) to find that …
Toronto Redux (pt. 3)
So, Monday was the conference. It was two days of symposia and two days of workshops and, like last year, I had no interest in doing group projects with strangers for two days, so was just there through Tuesday. Everything was pretty much the same as last year, in the exact same conference space. From …
Toronto Redux (pt. 2)
So, I wake up on Sunday in my high-above-the-roundhouse hotel room, whipped open those curtains. Lovely day. I had the whole day open, and had done a lot of basic touristing last year, so could be more specific. I thought about doing a hop-on-hop-off bus thing, which had worked so well for Dad and me …
Toronto redux (pt. 1)
So, last year, I got to return to a city I've loved for a long time, but hadn't been to in decades: Toronto. I almost immediately lost my wallet, but managed to have a good time anyway, including actually enjoying and appreciating the conference I was attending. The conference I attended was so worth-it that …
Catching Up
Christ on a sidecar, I'm so far behind in blogging - mostly because a string of things all happened over the course of several weekends, and I was too busy living life to write about it. So I'm just going to do some bullet points. Grand Duke: a few weeks ago, my old theater group, …
Crappy First Draft
When I was in fourth grade or so, I wrote an essay about the model airplanes I built. And it pretty much read like, "first I did an American Airlines DC-10. And then I did a Pan AM 747. And then I did a Delta 727. And then...." And I got it back from the …
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