I suppose that if I've been insisting that A and S stay off their phones and off the internet over the past two weeks, it's not surprising that I have not updated my blog in that time ( Read more... )

I participated in the sshg_promptfest for the first time this year, and would like to thank mt_nestor for her charming interpretation of my prompt:

Title: Gifts
Type: Art
Prompter:
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Woohoo! I have just finished uploaded edited versions of the nine articles I had to read while at FHL, and send a summary of my comments to my co-editors. That was a marathon ten days, during which I edited another article (I'll be paid for that one, though), but now I'm done! ADC also finished writing his article, up to and including figure ( Read more... )

This has been an incredibly productive week - ADC even finished the first draft of his article, and only has the figures and drawings to do, so coming to Friday Harbor has been very worthwhile for him, and I have gone through half of the articles for the special issue on medicine that I am co-editing. While the two of us have been at work, the boys ( Read more... )

I last posted while we were waiting for the shippers to arrive. They arrived within the time slot they had promised and were done - inventorying, sealing and some re-packing - in under an hour. A few days later, we were told that the shipment had been containerised and came within 5 cubic feet of the estimate, so no need to adjust the payment. All ( Read more... )

The weekend has been boiling hot, and spending Saturday on the Shenandoah River was a very good idea. We reached the rafting company at Front Royal around 10:30, and were on the river just after 11:00. We floated along until 15:30 - the Shenandoah was much wider and slower than the Jordan was when we went rafting there, and we got stuck at every " ( Read more... )

Today was the last day of elementary and middle school in Mayland. Since A has finished 8th grade and S has finished 5th grade, today was devoted to their promotion ceremonies - a new usage to me, BTW. I had not previously run across "promotion" in this sense. I would have just said "finished primary school" and/or "finished junior high ( Read more... )

 ADC went off to a meetup this evening, so for a change I cooked. We had half a bag of potatoes (about 6 medium ones) and half a bag of slightly elderly spinach leaves, so I decided to combine them and make sag aloo, which I always enjoy at Indian restaurants but have never actually made ( Read more... )

Today was a very productive day, both in terms of editing (finishing an article, taking anoter step towards submitting a grant), finances (getting the ball rolling on money owed - both reimbursement from the Rutgers visit and an editing job back in January), A's Arabic lesson (revision, but hopefully things have now sunk in), and most of all: ( Read more... )

Yeterday was all about jetlag - although I woke up what seemed like a reasonable time, I was completely washed out the whole day, and found it difficult to concentrate well enough to work. The heat didn't help, although at least our AC is working, unlike A's school ... It was such a relief when the heavens opened about 8 p.m., and it continued ( Read more... )