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Vaguely considering a New Orleans trip. It's been too long! (203.7)
Judy and seity1 and I went to New Orleans the spring after Katrina for Jazz Fest, and that's coming up on 17 years ago, as bizarre as that is to imagine. Rachel and I have been talking about taking a vacation somewhere warm during her spring break, and it's awfully tempting to try to get to New Orleans once again. A couple of weeks after the madness of ( Read more... ) -
Early morning for school closings
I haven't looked outside yet to see how snowy it is in my neighborhood, but I've been awake for almost two hours working on local school updates. It's all two-hour delays for the districts in Tompkins County, with a few closings to our south. The storm has mostly passed east of here, so roads should be in pretty good shape before long ( Read more... ) -
Faceblind (202.3)
At the end of my first visit yesterday morning to a new physical therapy office, someone in a mask came out of the back with another patient and excitedly said hi to me. I have no idea who she was!
I’ve always been a little faceblind, not always able to connect the face of someone I know with their identity, but it’s sure been exacerbated the last ( Read more... ) -
Sad family news to share
I am saddened to share the news that our mother Helen Myra Rabinowitz Anbinder passed away in her sleep early Tuesday morning at St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, after a two-month illness related to her Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. She survived over 22 years with this diagnosis, and was an avid volunteer and fundraiser for the Leukemia & ( Read more... ) -
Any Dream Will Do (202.1)
I've been having lots of vivid dreams lately, some of which I remember pretty well for a little while after I wake up. Last night's started somewhere else, but ended up with Jeff and Daina a couple of rows behind me in the audience for "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." Right before the show started the rest of my row close to the ( Read more... ) -
Doggo dreams (201.1)
Dreamed early this morning about pointing out to someone where on the bed each dog sleeps. Explained that Penny goes under the covers, and Carter lies in a straight line along the edge. (He doesn't! He curls up behind a pillow against the headboard. But Penny, when she doesn't wander away when I get in bed, does want to get under the covers ( Read more... ) -
Musing on the legacy of Nichelle Nichols (204.1)
I started "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" after hearing about David Warner's passing, and finished it yesterday after hearing about Nichelle's.
I hadn't remembered Nichelle Nichols got the VERY LAST character close-up of the original movie series, before standing up and walking over to Jimmy Doohan, standing at the railing, for the group ( Read more... ) -
Right under the wire! (202.2)
I just hit my exercise goal for the day a couple of minutes ago, according to my Apple Watch. I realized while out with the dogs for their bedtime walk a little while ago that, for a change, I hadn't hit it much earlier in the day, as I almost always have lately. I had to intentionally walk briskly a bit extra inside the house after we were done. ( Read more... ) -
LiveJournal travelogues
I used to post to LiveJournal about a lot of the ins and outs of my travel experiences! This on-this-day memory from 19 years ago is unexpectedly timely. It reminds me that we used to connect through Pittsburg a lot, and comes along with the news that Ithaca is about to lose connections through PhiladelphiaMy next flight -- my first in three years ( Read more... ) -
When was my first camping trip in the Poconos? (203.1)
One of today's LiveJournal memories was for this camping post from twenty years ago today. It's been almost seven years since I was last there (YIKES!) but I have no idea when I was FIRST there. My LiveJournal doesn't go back far enough, and there was really no other social media back then to check. It probably wasn't much before 2001 ( Read more... )