Flying Away
It's been so many weeks.
Julie's trip went well. Eris was reasonably good in her absence, though there were a few major tantrums.
I did some campaign volunteering in NH-1 (for Chris Pappas, who won the House race in that district).
Election day came and went. It's a wave election all right, Trump is clearly not good news for the Republicans, and the Republicans did poorly especially considering all the ways the map favored them. But it was more a bad midterm for Republicans than a large-scale Republican repudiation of Trump and Trumpism. For example, Tech Solidarity's slate of stretch-goal house races almost all lost (most painfully, JD Scholten failed to unseat outright-Nazi Steve King in IA-4). The one exception was Jared Golden in ME-2, the first candidate to win an instant-runoff under Maine's new ranked-choice-voting process.
The day after, we took a trip to Alternburg, Germany, my paternal grandfather's hometown. My first time in Germany. We flew to Berlin via Reykjavik, then took the train via Leipzig. Met my parents and some of the rest of my extended family there. We were visiting at the invitation of Christian Repkewitz, a historian who's written several books on the history of the Jewish community in Altenburg. We attended a commemoration ceremony memorializing Altenburg residents who were victims of the attacks of November 9, 1938 and the previous mass-deportations of Polish Jews from Germany. We also met some family friends who now live in the building where my grandfather grew up, visited Altenburg Castle (which contains a museum about some of the town's art and history), and took Erica to a zoo on an island in the pond (though the pond itself was more of an empty basin with scattered puddles, there's apparently been a prolonged drought). Spent a very little time in Berlin on the way through. The kid was a great traveler, though she got a little homesick towards the end of the trip.
It's a bit of a quiet quarter for me at work, and I've maybe been trying to take it a little easy. Work's been stressful for Julie.
Yesterday, Julie and I went to see SpeakEasy's production of Fun Home (based on the Alison Bechdel graphic-novel memoir). It was really good! Brilliant script and score, and it's a very good adaptation of the book. I was a bit surprised to see the small-box-theater format used for a musical, but it worked really well for this one.
Tomorrow, we head off again for Thanksgiving break.
This entry was originally posted on Dreamwith.
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Julie's trip went well. Eris was reasonably good in her absence, though there were a few major tantrums.
I did some campaign volunteering in NH-1 (for Chris Pappas, who won the House race in that district).
Election day came and went. It's a wave election all right, Trump is clearly not good news for the Republicans, and the Republicans did poorly especially considering all the ways the map favored them. But it was more a bad midterm for Republicans than a large-scale Republican repudiation of Trump and Trumpism. For example, Tech Solidarity's slate of stretch-goal house races almost all lost (most painfully, JD Scholten failed to unseat outright-Nazi Steve King in IA-4). The one exception was Jared Golden in ME-2, the first candidate to win an instant-runoff under Maine's new ranked-choice-voting process.
The day after, we took a trip to Alternburg, Germany, my paternal grandfather's hometown. My first time in Germany. We flew to Berlin via Reykjavik, then took the train via Leipzig. Met my parents and some of the rest of my extended family there. We were visiting at the invitation of Christian Repkewitz, a historian who's written several books on the history of the Jewish community in Altenburg. We attended a commemoration ceremony memorializing Altenburg residents who were victims of the attacks of November 9, 1938 and the previous mass-deportations of Polish Jews from Germany. We also met some family friends who now live in the building where my grandfather grew up, visited Altenburg Castle (which contains a museum about some of the town's art and history), and took Erica to a zoo on an island in the pond (though the pond itself was more of an empty basin with scattered puddles, there's apparently been a prolonged drought). Spent a very little time in Berlin on the way through. The kid was a great traveler, though she got a little homesick towards the end of the trip.
It's a bit of a quiet quarter for me at work, and I've maybe been trying to take it a little easy. Work's been stressful for Julie.
Yesterday, Julie and I went to see SpeakEasy's production of Fun Home (based on the Alison Bechdel graphic-novel memoir). It was really good! Brilliant script and score, and it's a very good adaptation of the book. I was a bit surprised to see the small-box-theater format used for a musical, but it worked really well for this one.
Tomorrow, we head off again for Thanksgiving break.
This entry was originally posted on Dreamwith.
comments are there.