The retreat this year was as timely as could be. Wiped out all summer from the antibiotics I'd been on to treat this infection, I had been nausea-free for a week when my departure date arrived, with me sort of waiting day by day to see if I would make it, or if this nausea would rise up again. I headed out to Kansas City without incident, though ( Read more... )

My journal's been on the fritz for a few days (as has my hot water, but I don't think they're related) and so I'm actually slightly stunned to see my update page load finally, after a few days of desultory attempts. Not all the features seem to be working, but here goes. (I hope I don't lose all this: I hate that.) I've continued to get out a ( Read more... )

Third day in a row of "instant afternoon storms" with another one just materializing this last hour, like the one I talked about on Monday. This one has just formed across the river from the River Bend neighbourhood, so it's not happening here, it's happening over there. I've witnessed storms just missing me before, or seen the edges of them ( Read more... )

Reading List 2009-2010 School Year:

Note: This is the attempt to revive an old habit of tracking my reading. I had thought that the " books" link on the journal would be sufficient for this, but a few times now when I've tried to use that to backtrack when I was reading a certain book... well, it's just a bit much to sort through. So I thought I ( Read more... )

12:57pm

Flying over Oklahoma or northern Texas at the moment. I'm making my way back to New Orleans via Houston after the third do-it-ourselves retreat of Fleming's circle: countryside locations outside Nashville, Indiana in late July 2002; Jackson, Wyoming in 2008; and now Eureka Springs, Arkansas in 2010. I'll probably need a few entries, at ( Read more... )

Late night. In the last two days, I've fallen into my usual late-night pattern again, which is going to hit me painfully as I shift over to the more daylight schedule of the retreat with the guys in the Ozarks. That nearly fell through at the last minute, as the guy running the place started to get some sort of "bad feeling" about us, upon what ( Read more... )

I'm starting to actually get to work as the setting-into-school business seems to be coming to an end. Always One More Thing. The new distraction has been yesterday and today's flurry of emails with bits of planning as Fleming's circle of guy friends plans this years version of our occasionally-annual Do-It-Yourself-Men's-Retreat. This year, in ( Read more... )