Mark’s brother Gregg is six years older and started having kids while he was in his 20s, while Mark didn’t have his one kid until he was 40. So Mark’s brother’s grandkids, of which there are six, are almost as old as Mark’s son. Gregg and his wife Jean’s birthdays are close together in May, … [Read more…]
Or clearing out. Organizing stuff, getting the stuff we don’t want all into one area, one pile, so I can call one of the junk haul away services. So I keep going down and looking around and telling myself I’m planning. Ha. There’s this white dresser that I think I should sell rather than get … [Read more…]
I’m in Denver for a webdesign conference that starts Monday. It’s a single stream conference – one thing at a time! – so I’m looking forward to that after all the library conferences I go to with multiple events in any time block, resulting in blocks where there are like 5 things I want to … [Read more…]
And remembering what I did in New York. I’m sitting at LaGuardia wondering why my flight hasn’t started boarding – but they’re only 5 minutes late so far. Ah – looks like passengers are disembarking thru our gate so that must be why. I kind of told you about Thursday. The best flight I could … [Read more…]
I attended the Midwinter library conference, and it was a bit of an odyssey. I was supposed to leave on Friday, early, but there was a snowstorm, and everything going out of Chicago got cancelled. The best anyone could do for me was a 9:00 AM flight out of O’Hare on Saturday morning, and that … [Read more…]
First, I sat in gum on the L to the apartment – I took the bus to Chicago the day before the conference, to spend the night, do a little work, and then catch a noon-ish flight to Denver from Midway. I discovered the gum at the start of my last phone call student advising … [Read more…]
On our day 4, Monday, our first movie was Happy End directed by Michael Haneke, the Austrian director. It’s kind of a sequel to sequel to 2012’s Amour, that I think we tried to see at our very first TIFF. It was really well done but hard to feel sympathetic for all those rich people. … [Read more…]
Days 1, 2, & 3 for us anyways – the Festival really started Thursday, so our day 1 was actually day 2 officially. It didn’t start getting confusing until Monday, when all the introducers started saying, “welcome to day 5” when it was only day 4 for us. But that’s the next post. <grin> Day … [Read more…]
From Sunday to Wednesday last week we were tourists in our nation’s Capital. We got in on Sunday morning, dropped our bags at the hotel – a Kimpton that I got at an astonishingly good price – and went off seeking breakfast. I took a picture of a building tear-down and got another one on … [Read more…]
I did this once before, in the spring of 2015. This trip is a little longer; 2 nights in NYC, and 3 nights in the Hudson River Valley. And Jenny moved to the Bronx. I flew on American from Madison to Charlotte NC – their new hub. We had to walk across the tarmac, like … [Read more…]