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Day 14: Drive from Ohio to Ontario

Meijer (Maumee OH, 3:08pm, pronounced /ˈmaɪ.ər/).  Our usual grocery-shopping-in-the-States before driving across the border.  $234.80.  The same candy bars we got for our “up to $5 snack credit" at Disney are being sold here for 82¢.

Kroger (Roseville MI, 4:21pm).  Try to get some lunch here ( Read more... )

Our room.  Day 3, dose 1 for Kid #2’s ear drops.  He feels yucky: coughing, sneezing, sniffling.  I’ve got clogged sinuses as well.  Wifey isn’t feeling 100%.  Only Kid #1 (the germophobe) seems to be okay.  So it looks like we’ll have to skip another day at the park.

Epcot.  Attractions visited today: none.  Today was supposed ( Read more... )

Our room.  Day 2, dose 1 for Kid #2’s ear drops.  Wait around for Wifey’s college friend, whom we haven’t seen since our previous trip to Disney World ten years ago.

Our room (12:30pm).  Friend arrives.  We spend quite ( Read more... )

TD/Allianz Insurance (via telephone; 10:15am ( Read more... )

Oct. 29, day 7: Drive from New York to Ontario

Best Western (Liverpool NY, 2:46am).  Yet another bill-under-the-door.  Only $111.76 for a 2-queen room - and the pool is heated!  Looks like we’ll be back here next time, although the ( Read more... )

(A₁ is my father’s sister.  She is the only person I knew before my 18th birthday who is both still alive and also still on speaking terms with me.  A₂ was my grandmother’s sister, who died 30 years ago but her estate is *still* unsettled to this very day, because lawyers.)
Interstate 495 (Franklin MA, 12:15pm).  A₁’s house is north of ( Read more... )

Day 2b: Rosh Hashanah

Hawthorne Suites: It is evening on September 28th.  We eat foods that ( Read more... )

An article in the New York Times describes E₈ as “some sort of curvy, torus type of thing” and states twice that it has 57 dimensions.  The Wikipedia article on E₈ contains 2800 ( Read more... )

Visit with in-laws.  An hour’s drive down to Attleboro and another hour back.  We usually don’t stay this far north, but we were looking for an inexpensive hotel with a kitchen suite-and “inexpensive” is not very compatible with “Boston area”.

My brother-in-law’s stepdaughter is getting married soon.  Using the terminology from this post, it’s “ ( Read more... )