ATLANTA (Friday) -- The most important bit of the trip was a success: I passed the test. Well, everybody passed the test -- scores ranged from 75 to 100 -- but I'm pretty sure I didn't get the 100. Individual scores will be posted later ( Read more... )

ATLANTA (Thursday) -- As for the work side, what can I say? George and Paul finished up the second half of the text, and the temperature finally met everyone's standards.

Lunch time found me at one of my favorite Atlanta hangouts: The Varsity, home of the "Whad'yahave? Whad'yahave? " (Otherwise, if you don't order promptly, the counter staff will ( Read more... )

ATLANTA -- George & Paul, the two facilitators of the course, were destined to be friends. After moving next door to each other in Kansas City years back, they discovered they shared the same anniversary date. Not day, dateSo there is much good-natured back-and-forth between them, which keeps the class going ( Read more... )

...but with the spare time during lunch and after class, I've been hitting some familiar and new places while in Atlanta ( Read more... )

ATLANTA, 10/7 -- Uneventful. That described my drive up to Pittsburgh and my flight down to Atlanta in several ways:
(1)No animals were harmed in the transport of this person.
(2)The folks at City National Bank recognized all three mes as me when I went to cash a saving bond ( Read more... )

(Saturday) FLIGHT 2683, SEAT 18B -- Should I be concerned that my seatmate was impressed with the eclecticity of music playing on my laptop ( Read more... )

COLORADO SPRINGS -- From the motel, I called Kim around 4:00, looking to arrange a dinner spot ( Read more... )

COLORADO SPRINGS -- All in all, a rather quiet day ( Read more... )

DENVER -- After stopping off at Colorado State to pick Chad up his customary college t-shirt.

It was then on to Boulder, to pick up my customary newspaper. The last time Chad and I were in Boulder, I couldn't find a copy of the city paper, The Daily Camera, although Colorado's campus paper was easily available ( Read more... )

FORT COLLINS CO -- This morning started off somberly with a trip to Town Hall to find my great-aunt and uncle's plots in the city cemetery. The town's receptionist was right; the code she gave me to find was confusing, but I did finally dig them up find them, and snapped some pictures for my cousin-the-family-genealogist ( Read more... )