Mark’s in the hotel bathroom shaving off his mustache – he says it’s time. He’ll be 60 in October. I’m listening to car talk on WBEZ, while writing. We came in yesterday on the train. It was a bit of a hike and lugging suitcases on the crowded CTA bus to get to the hotel […]
I signed up for instgr.am – so I can post iPhone pictures online easier. The pictures come out of the iPhone 4 pretty big, tall and skinny like the iPhone – I just looked at one that was 2 MB, 2592 px × 1936 px, and sideways – too big to post on Word Press. […]
In 2009, I made John a salted caramel chocolate tart for his birthday. I think it was the cover recipe in Saveur that month. It was good, but I got the caramel just a little too dark, and I never made another. Today, just a few days away from John’s birthday 2011, I was browsing […]
Here I am at work on the first day of spring break. I have a stack of applications to read, next year’s class of library school students, plus I have an assignment handed in in one of my online classes – applying subject headings to a record (description of an information resource) that the students […]
Andy Kraushaar’s panorama My iPhone picture of one of the tractor drivers taking his own iPhone pictures – video of the crowd John’s online polaroids of the crowd
So the news is all bad: earthquakes and melting down nuclear reactors in Japan; tsunamis; unrest and insane dictators all over the middle east; union busting in Wisconsin. On Tuesday I made a chicken & zucchini casserole, from my Pittsburgh community garden cookbook – the Great Tomato Patch cookbook that of course is on WorldCat […]
Or, as the woman on her cell phone in the ladies bathroom when I got to work was saying, “When I got up this morning there were 6 inches of snow on the ground”. National Weather Services says only 4 1/2. Still. It’s the really heavy packy stuff.
Or, as one of my librarian colleagues calls it, “my new second job.” The city of Madison is still pleased with our Midwestern polite behavior. I made cookies again, oatmeal raison, and I added chocolate chips, using the recipe from under the lid of the box of Quaker Quick Oats that I inherited from Al […]
They’re almost as old as me – Peter Buck, December 6, 1956 | Mike Mills, December 17, 1958 | Michael Stipe, January 4, 1960 | me, August 11, 1955. So, as I told my friend Chris, born in March of 1957, the same as my baby brother, “Well, we never woulda dated in high school, […]
