Sean & Mary picked me up, lunch at OUTDOOR cafe. Met two of his new friends, saw Up in the Air, really enjoyed it. Two hour Thai dinner and talk for the five of us, then back to Sean's place where I configured Marys laptop to disable trackpad when an external mouse is plugged in (the secret is to get the LATEST trackpad driver in order to have this ( Read more... )

Continuing a travel tradition, I have done computer maintenance for my host, in this case my sister and brother-in-law. I got their wireless working again after a support tech had told them several bogus things, added an Airport Express to extend the network into the study, got a new wireless printer installed, and showed my sister how to add a ( Read more... )

Sorrano Valley on the Coaster. We just passed a guy with no shirt.

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Heading out for two weeks in southern California, seeing my sister and her family, and then going hiking with Mary and Sean (Sean is working down in the San Diego area so they're running two households this year).

And I see my flight will be boarding soon, so this may cut off quickly. Yes, there I go!

Tip for those of you coming to Wiscon - check ( Read more... )

Getting ready for a trip to visit OMM and Sean just after the New Year ( Read more... )

Saw the ortho doctor on Thursday, got x-rays, was told that I didn't need to see them any more, to get an exercise and physical therapy program from my HMO, and that, in a year or so, my arm would be back to normal. Okay, so that last bit wasn't so hot, but basically its good. I have most of my range of motion back after cracking my humerus in my ( Read more... )

Lucy and I have been on an old movie kick lately, watching the Marx Brothers, Peter Sellers (A Shot in the Dark, The Mouse That Roared), and now onto Audrey Hepburn. I'd never seen Funny Face, nor even really known what it was about. It has Audrey Hepburn as a bookstore clerk turned model, working with a photographer called "Dick Avery", using real ( Read more... )

saw the orthopedist on Thursday. The humerus is definitely healing properly, no surgery will be needed. Physical therapy started ( Read more... )

I was walking in my neighborhood when I saw a woman pull her car up by a house, get out, and pick up two big bags of leaves and some moldy pumpkins that had been left out for the city's leaf collection.

My neighborhood: where even your compost gets trash picked.

"Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory,
but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell."

-General William Tecumseh Sherman