Deb's Lunch … and dinner and breakfast too

Watching the golf course fireworks from the DOT parking lot across the road – missing anything good they’re setting off on the ground. Includes motor mouth kid next to us, whose grandparents totally could not cope.

We haven’t grilled yet for the holiday weekend, because we’ve had so few people around – all of our kids are off doing other stuff. John’s girlfriend works for Summerfest, so this is a busy time for them, although this is an historic year – no Summerfest on July 4th, because it’s a Monday. So […]

On my last morning in New Orleans, I went to one meeting and then got coffee & beignets. Then we went and bought rugs, from a place that custom weaves rag rugs, in the Quarter, Lousiana Loomworks, where we’d gotten stuff before. Mark’s got a kitchen rug from them, and I have two, although they’re […]

I had a little extra time, so I took the little camera out on the walk back from the convention center to Mulate’s for the (not-too-well-attended) SLIS reunion. I think this is kind of a low-attendence conference in general; no one has travel money, and librarians are still iffy about coming to NOLA.  

So I’m in New Orleans for the librarians’ conference. We were last here in 2006 – the first big conference to come in after Katrina. The opening general session started with inspirational videos, like a high school age girl singing “I need my library”. I suppose I should’ve been more inspired, but it’s hard not […]