The downside of being so over-busy is that when I have a short span of UN-busyness, I have this unfocused inability to do anything. Like today – I recorded a lecture, read the discussion boards in my class, graded two assignments, kind of caught up on email, answered numerous student questions, met with a student [...]
We are having an extremely mild winter in WI – no snow, and the average temp is like 35 degrees, probably. The lakes are still open. All the municipalities around WI are saving a ton on not having to plow the roads – the figure given for for Madison on the local news last night [...]
On the last day of May (during my staycation) I started the process to move my personal websites, mostly word press blogs, over to a new hosting service. It was a long process, or at least in my case it was, because I didn’t just move files, I transferred my domains – and that can [...]
Over the weekend, we went from arctic to temperate – it was in the mid-30s on Saturday, and up to 46°s on Sunday. A huge amount of the snowpack has melted, but fortunately, we’ve been having warm wind that evaporates everything – no rain – so even though there are some [deep] puddles in the [...]
So Saturday the 11th was the blizzard; all last week it stayed cold. Then last night, we got a few more inches of snow, that changed to freezing rain. Now it’s about about 32 degrees, and seems like we’re getting all set to have the same kind of grey, slushy Christmas we had last year. [...]
Yesterday I biked to work without even needing gloves. Today is like the third day in a row with highs close to 70 degrees, in November, in Wisconsin. I think maybe this is the year when it’s just not going to get cold at all. What does that do the Wisconsin psyche? We live here [...]
It’s early afternoon on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend – meaning we still have another day off. I woke up at 6:30, (well, after waking at 2:00 and at 5:10 or so to feed the cats) and went back to sleep until 7:12, instead of lying awake worrying like I have the last few [...]
…. a day in May? Last post I was kvetching about it being too hot here in WI; it was in the 90s and I ran the aircon for two days, and it just seemed too early in the summer. I mean, it’s not even officially summer yet, not as measured astronomically, by the solstice, [...]
We had a couple of days of unseasonably hot weather – almost 80° in April – and I thought all the blooming things would pop out and die fast – like in Hunter’s lyric for Eyes of the World – “the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom and decay”- (and whaddya know, the [...]
