Category Archives: daily updates

66231 meters to row, and I’ll be at 10 million lifetime erg meters! For perspective, I’ve done that much in a week when toward the end of a marathon training program, though I certainly don’t plan to do that this … Continue reading →

The good news around here is that I have passed that awful test I took a few weeks ago. I am so relieved I won’t have to retake it – that was an unpleasant experience overall. I will need to … Continue reading →

This sounds a bit Pollyanna-ish, but I think most days have some sort of gift to bring, if you pay attention. This morning’s was a shaft of light that made a brilliant glow of a red maple tree. They say … Continue reading →

Copy edits have been returned to me. Am plunging into review. Please send wine and pretzels. . . . . . . . . . They want it back by the 18th; I talked them into a deadline of the … Continue reading →

Yesterday did not begin well. It started with a bunch of texts from my brother – Dad had fallen and is in the hospital for observation. Next, my closest coworker, one who has a dotted reporting line to me, handed … Continue reading →

I’m here, in Toledo. The drive wasn’t bad at all: in the usual sense it had wide flat roads and not much traffic. In the sense of the driving difficulties I’ve had since 2009 and an incident in Taiwan, I … Continue reading →

Today has been devoted to updates: trying unsuccessfully to update the GPS’s database (it turns out the cable to connect it to the computer is in the other house, and I decided I didn’t care enough to go buy a … Continue reading →

Should be fun, I hope. We’re headed off to Philadelphia, for my parents’ 50th anniversary party, to get some nephew face-time (and not in Apple’s sense of the word) before he grows out of all recognition, and to celebrate Rosh … Continue reading →