November 2011

Would you test this for me, please

November 12, 2011

Hey, all— Will your computer play the .wav file I’m uploading? One way or the other (yea or nay), are you on a Mac or a PC platform? I wanna see if I can record lectures on iPad, upload them to my online course’s website, and have them be usable for all the classmates regardless [...]

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Moment of Actual Fun

November 12, 2011

Wow! This last week or so has been difficult. But last night I got to go to a nice party sponsored by the financial management firm that handles my life savings. It was great fun! In the first place: ego-stroking! I gussied myself up in the St. John suit I picked up at My Sister’s [...]

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D from H, Redux

November 10, 2011

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 6:00 a.m.: Student turns in late paper, with a viable excuse.  A new raft of papers scheduled to come in today, this paper must be read now to prevent total melt-down later. Naturally, it’s the most difficult paper of the entire set. Takes forever. 7:15 a.m.: Knock off reading paper so [...]

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Insurance Frolics

November 8, 2011

w00t! A notice came from The Hartford’s auto insurance side announcing that next year’s premiums will…wait for it!…DROP BY $26! Hallelujah, brothers and sisters! It’s the first time I can recall a significant drop in quite some time. O’course, what they’re trying to say is the 12-year-old Dog Chariot is no longer worth the current [...]

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Dogs: Letting Nature Take Its Course

November 8, 2011

So the question of the day is, “Why do I think Cassie can’t take care of herself?” She has teeth. She bites. And she deliberately eggs Charley on. This morning I decided to unhook the leash and let nature take its course. And y’know what happened? Nothing. They wrestled, they barked, they growled. They whirled [...]

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Makin’ Olives, Greek-Style

November 6, 2011

The alleged fruitless olive in the front courtyard is not. Fruitless, I mean. This summer it bore a nice crop of smallish olives, very  much like the olives that appear on the old stock planted years before the state’s ban on olive trees went into effect. Olive pollen is said to be too cruel to [...]

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