Depends on when you count from. I’m losing track. Last Thursday was the last day I was in the office. That day started with a haircut, then I drove to campus, and worked until about 4:30. I planned on stopping to get gas on the way home, and that meant that there I was on … [Read more…]
I guess. Until it’s not. I’ve started doing my walks now without a stop at a coffee place, although Mark stopped in at one today (Sunday). I guess that will stop if/when Wisconsin follows Illinois and Ohio, and makes all bars and restaurants carry out only. Or I mean he could stop and pick up … [Read more…]
Friday the 13th, working at home, and getting another email about a cancellation or closing every half hour or so. Italy, where everyone is quarantined and singing: US, where a sports journalist (Utah Jazz reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune), a.k.a. white, fairly privileged guy, can’t get tested: and we have the last person in … [Read more…]
Friday we went to the Madison symphony and it was pretty empty. There was one older woman wearing blue surgical gloves. Corona virus fears, or I guess the new correct name is Covid-19. Long as they don’t start calling it Captain Trips. That was one of Stephen King’s worst ideas, calling a disease Captain Trips … [Read more…]
On Valentine’s Day, I found out that I was getting a raise. I did the lengthy application and put in to get what’s called the Distinguished Prefix, a recognition of my 20+ years of work on the UW-Madison campus. I wasn’t at all sure I’d get it, and it also seems like it’s going away … [Read more…]
New car, practicing my puff pastry for the class I’m teaching next Sunday, and a trip to the opera. I’m afraid that this first batch won’t puff enough because I had the butter too soft. You’re supposed to grate it frozen but that sounded painful to me, plus my kitchen’s been really cold this winter … [Read more…]
Last night I came home from work and turned on the radio to listen to NPR while I cooked dinner (fried rice, with shredded pork & chicken, sweet peppers, carrots, scallions, peas, garlic & ginger. Just realized I forgot the egg). And entered the Twilight Zone. NPR had decided to devote coverage to a press … [Read more…]
It’s not been a big week for cooking dinner – Tuesday I had a big lunch with a faculty candidate, and Wednesday I didn’t get enough steps, so both nights I wasn’t hungry for dinner. The title refers to the big bowl of oatmeal with dates, 1/2 a cup of dry oats instead of the … [Read more…]
Today I’ve been learning more things about Myrtle Beach. For starters, it’s huge. We’re in North Myrtle Beach, that’s the North Carolina end, and it stretches south into South Carolina for something like 60 continuous miles of beach. This morning on my walk I was trying to figure out some flowering shrubby trees. They look … [Read more…]
We’re at Myrtle Beach for a 4-day vacay in February. A.K.A. going someplace warm in the middle of winter. Mark’s brother and his wife got a condo and invited us and other friends and relatives to join them for parts of their stay. Our first morning we went and got coffee in the strip mall, … [Read more…]