It’s an often talked about thing that with the Internetz and 159 channels and time shifting and there’s no town square and we don’t all sit down to watch Uncle Walter at the same time on the CBS Evening News (“in an era when network news was central to many people’s lives.” as it says … [Read more…]
So let’s see – we got back from Seattle last Tuesday, and Belana and I took a cab home, dropped our bags, and went to see Infinity Baby at the film fest. The first third was pretty funny, then it got a little too weird. We ate peanut butter sandwiches during the movie that we … [Read more…]
Friday night – takeaway Chinese, from this funky place in a nearby strip mall that we’ve been going to for years. Jen and I ordered something like $140 of food – I mean, there were 9 of us … but the fridge is still full of cardboard takeout containers with an inch of food in … [Read more…]
My little brother turned 60 on Monday. Here’s a card Chad & Lea made: Yep, that’s him. My friend Terese is the same day as my brother and the same year as me, so she turned 62. I got a cake from a local, regular sugar and flour type, bakery, and added marzipan carrots and … [Read more…]
Walking to work on a rainy Thursday, the sidewalk was populated with worms. I tried not to step on them. The soundtrack was a little jingle us kids used to sing, which Wikiedia tells me is the Hearse Song: The worms crawl in The worms crawl out The worms crawl higgeldy all about And one … [Read more…]
It seems a little weird to say I didn’t cook much this week when on Monday I prepped breakfast for 40 at the food pantry at the community center, and then went back to serve it on Tuesday morning. There were breakfast burritos and blueberry muffins. I made 40 burritos and 42 muffins and they … [Read more…]
Originally the plan was that I would cook John a birthday dinner in Chicago. I had even sent a set of menus for them to select from. But then it turned out that he was coming to Madison on his birthday instead. And then it further transpired that his friend Jake, who has the same … [Read more…]
George Harrison sings for John I can’t believe I’m so old I have a kid who’s 30, although I’m actually old enough to have a kid who’s 40, if I’d started sooner. I made a temporary special blog banner for the occasion: They almost never looked like this – John’s only about 19 months older … [Read more…]
For most of last week, I had this vaguely embarrassed, staggering around incompetently feeling. I think it was in part because I was still getting over writing my annual report, reading my bad evals from last year. And I think teaching face to face makes me have that flop-sweat feeling more than teaching online, because … [Read more…]
…wearing red in solidarity (although I am at University of WI so it’s just as likely to be seen as badger red), and drinking instant coffee that I already had in my desk drawer, so I’m not going out and spending money. And here’s a slideshow of vacation minder messages, how people say they’re not … [Read more…]