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I have things I was intending to write about, but I am more or less fully occupied with a Jewish genealogy conference this week. I have my first mentoring office hours tomorrow. So far, I have gotten about 8 requests for mentoring appointments - not a single one of which was for a time I put on the schedule. Oy.

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I have a bunch of things to write about. Let’s start with the quarterly update, because that is (relatively) quick to write.

Books:

1. Randy Johnson, Hiking the Blue Ridge Parkway I’d bought this as a gift for a friend, bt I feel obliged to quality test books I am giving people. This is a mile by mile guide to the Blue Ridge Parkway, with brief ( Read more... )

I had a busy week at home, followed by an even busier week that included both work and play. So this is just a reminder to myself of things I intend to write about:

1. Vacation
   
   
2. NPL con
   
   
3. Genealogy - meeting a cousin (and his wife) for dinner
   
   
4. A little more genealogy
   
   
5. The Band's Visit / The Chromatics
   
   
6. The joys and oys of business travel
   
   
7. NSN Summit ( Read more... )

Celebrity Death Watch: Joseph Bologna was an actor, with a long career spanning movies, television, and stage productions. Diane Pearson was a romance novelist. M. T. Liggett was a folk sculptor in Kansas. Sir Bruce Forsythwas a British TV presenter / game show host, who is claimed to have had the longest career in television for a male ( Read more... )

I have a bunch of travel (some work, some fun) coming up over the next month or so. I am hoping to find time to post here despite that, but I am also hoping (as always) to attain total world domination.

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No time to write a real entry. In short, this has been a pretty horrible week, with too much to do in too little time and no spare time at all. I am putting things in order as much as I can, so hopefully can catch up next week. Things I did were ( Read more... )

I have, as usual, been too busy doing things to write much about them. I'll have things to say about storytelling and about theatre (well, after tonight, when I am seeing a play at Signature) and dinner / propaganda at the Saudi Embassy. I also have some long genealogy updates to write, including a very exciting find on my father's side of the ( Read more... )