Inessentials

Forget about the hurricane that may move into Minnesota this week, the chill that’s fallen over the Twin Cities is a result of the police raids in the days leading up to the Republican National Convention.
A good overview of the arrests is here (h/t Kevin). It’s not clear what the basis for the arrests were. It’s [...]

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This summer is more or less officially over. Nicole went back to work today, which is about as official an end as we get.
The summer did end with a bang … or at least a bark. Wednesday night we went to Elm Shakespeare Company’s production of The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder. We got there just [...]

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We arrived home from our second big trip in the last month late Tuesday night. Of course, the car rental company didn’t have a drop box for the car, so after a midnight run, we had to drive back at 7:00am to return the car that we rented at La Guardia to come home in.
The [...]

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It’s nice being home again. Of course, I know that in three days, I’ll be leaving again, but still, home is home.

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We are currently in Minnesota, after deciding to drive from Connecticut over the fourth of July weekend. We thought of the craziness on Tuesday, decided on it Wednesday, left on Thursday.
On Friday the Fourth, we surprised my parents in Wisconsin. Luckily, they were meeting my grandparents for dinner that evening, so we got to see [...]

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I’ve not been posting much recently, in part because I’ve been busy (both with work and with summer) and in part because I’ve been using Twitter, a great little tool for reducing your life to bite-size fragments that are easily digestible. I’ve got a couple posts I’ve been meaning to develop, but they take more [...]

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Here’s some news.
My eye has been doing considerably better, as judged in the most practical way: I’ve been able to read for about two weeks, as long as it’s in relatively short stretches and not at certain times of the day. Other than a little soreness, it’s not been painful. Somehow, after I take the [...]

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The summer class that I am teaching begins tomorrow. Fortunately, I’ve been able to read a bit the last couple days. That means I won’t be writing lectures solely from the memory of what I think the authors said. Now while that would be a fun experiment, I’d rather not have to do that. The [...]

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The iritis that has been plaguing me for nearly three weeks will hopefully be in remission when I meet the doctor again tomorrow. Last week there had been so little improvement, that I was put on new medication that would keep my left eye dilated all the time. The biggest problem with this is that [...]

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Yesterday I did something I had never done before: I called in for an on-air radio contest. Then, the unthinkable happened: I actually won. I was caller number nine. But since the radio station is based out of New York and I live in Connecticut, I was ineligible.
Nicole thinks I’ve the golden touch. I think [...]

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