Told ya I’d be back. It is now Sunday Monday of after another over scheduled weekend, and I am trying to catch up back to last week. Anyways, it rained last Monday, hard a few times, and I managed not only to bike to the University library and home again without getting significantly wet, I … [Read more…]
Fourth of July was a Tuesday this year which made a week where Monday felt like Friday and Tuesday felt like Sunday and Wednesday felt like Monday all over again. And, since June 30, the Friday before, was my last official day in the office, this odd week was my first week of retirement. On … [Read more…]
At least in terms of eating & drinking, and NOT doing any work. On Thursday, I left my book sale volunteer job early, and went and got CSA box #2 of the season (box 2 for me, because I get an every other week box; it’s actually week 3 of CSA season). Heavy on greens: … [Read more…]
I hope! I feel like this is kind of the danger zone, 5 weeks on crutches, that I hit once before when I started building up my walking and turned out my knee was still broken. I’m still trying NOT to walk farther than a couple of blocks, but last week I started biking again, … [Read more…]
And we also had a busy John’s birthday weekend before. Last year we were in Chicago for John’s birthday, but he was so busy with work we never even saw him. This year we had brunch with John & Megan the weekend before, and found out that not only were John & Megan coming to … [Read more…]
So here we are on September 22 September 23, and I have not written anything since the 9th, when I was in Denver for Ethan & Megan’s wedding. Which was a lot of fun – here’s my favorite picture. The DJ did a trick to get everyone onto the floor, and I took a few … [Read more…]
I feel like I’m forgetting everything I ever knew, and especially how to do all the things I’m supposed to be good at. Getting old and irrelevant, not keeping up. Maybe I’m living in that Billy Collins poem. I know one of the ways I’m feeling not like myself is how little documentation of cooking … [Read more…]
So I’m in one of those phases when all kinds of little things are going wrong. That I used to think would protect me from the major catastrophes, but now I’m not so sure. Like how we used to joke about Northwest Airlines “Northworst” that they’d lose your luggage and make you late but [probably] … [Read more…]
Last Friday, one of my older son John’s best friends from high school in Madison got married to John’s girlfriend’s best friend from high school in Iowa. It was a lovely wedding, all in one place, the old Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee. My son had this gang of guys who all ate lunch at my … [Read more…]
And that was all the way last weekend already. We took the train. We dropped our bags at the hotel, met John & Megan at Dollop for coffee, and proceeded on to the Art Institute. I wanted to see Bisa Butler, John wanted to see Richard Hunt, and we all wanted to see the Obama … [Read more…]