When I worked at Pleasant Company, we used to talk about the history biz – that is, the type of work necessary to maintain and promote and serve customers at historic tourist attractions like Old World Wisconsin, or Independence Hall, or Deadwood, or Colonial Williamsburg. The work we did. Trying to figure out what a … [Read more…]
This one’s in DC, and while attendance is higher than last summer’s conference held in New Orleans (that I skipped, with the happy result that I got to see the Madison fireworks that are always before July 4, when I’m almost always at conference) it’s down for a DC conference. Normally conferences held in either … [Read more…]
This week started with the election and is ending with the WI Film Fest. I took two days off to work at one, and volunteer at the other. Tuesday I worked the election and it wasn’t terribly busy – it was the election for mayor and school board so seemed like really only permanent residents … [Read more…]
Starting my Saturday with a little freezing. The election is Tuesday and I attended the Saturday morning training where we pick up our giant totes of all the stuff we need, and I drove because the Chief Inspector, and my neighbor, that I work with, didn’t have a car that day. She wanted to park … [Read more…]
This morning when I woke up I felt like it should be Saturday already, instead of only Friday. Somehow it’s just been a long week. Maybe the cold, maybe just everything. I’ve had several conversations with friends where they’re feeling like it’s the end of days. People snowed in up north and a 100+ car … [Read more…]
Kind of a lot of it is my own cooking, but I guess that’s as it should be, since I’m actually living here, not vacationing, touristing, or conferencing – yet. Friday the librarians’ conference begins**, so I should have some additional eating adventures then. Stove top mac & cheese, that I made for one … [Read more…]
I was signed up to do the AIDS ride Sunday – so I tried to take it kind of easy the rest of the weekend. Friday I worked until 4:30, on a Friday, in the summer, which Rach and I agreed is like staying until 5:30, or maybe even 6:00 on a normal work day. … [Read more…]
On Sunday we were gone from the airbnb for over 12 hours – from 8:00 am to after 9:00 PM. It was like a very long work day, but at least included dinner. We got coffee at the closest Starbucks – not the fastest customer service but just down the stairs from the airbnb – … [Read more…]
Friday was another 3 movie day, two family dramas and one romantic comedy. We hung around at the airbnb and ate yogurts and banana and peanut butter toast for breakfast because The Wife, our first film, the first family drama, didn’t start until noon, plus we had dinner reservations between our 2nd & 3rd movies, … [Read more…]
I haven’t written since we got back from D.C. two weeks ago. I could say it’s because I’ve been working on getting my fall semester online courses ready, and it’s so much the same, writing content and posting it online in a content management system, that I don’t have energy left for blogging. Maybe. I … [Read more…]