It’s one of my favorite times of the year.
We went up to camp this weekend.  When the remnants of Hurricane Ike came through here, it was still packing quite a wallop in the wind category, and  for almost two weeks, the entire area was without power.  We knew there were several trees down and such, [...]

The new job is awesome.
It’s weird.  I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop, but so far, things couldn’t be better.
One of the big things I have to do is restore some respect for our student-run campus newspaper.  Over the past three years, there have been some serious issues,  and more than a few folks [...]

I hate ceilings.
They block my view of the beautiful sky, hold in stale air, and generally interfere with my creative juices.  Oh, sure, they serve as places to nail down the floors for the folks upstairs if you’re not on top and make heating and air conditioning easier, and if you are on top, they [...]

I forgot to tell you all about my trip to school on Tuesday.
I still don’t have the keys to my office and the newsroom yet, but I guess it’s not all that surprising since my contract doesn’t officially take effect until August 16th. It’s still horribly frustrating, though, to have to check in with [...]

At myself, that is.
I spent all day yesterday with my nose buried in books, calendars, and the laptop, working like a little trooper on developing three syllabi for most of the new classes I’ll be teaching this fall.
Now, when I put together a syllabus, it goes well beyond “this is the book you need” and [...]

Hi.
I haven’t been around here much lately, largely because I’ve been running around like the proverbial headless chicken trying to get ready for my new job while keeping up with the current one. It’s been nuts.
I figured you all were due for an update, though, so here goes:
I went to campus today to meet [...]

What a busy day Friday turned out to be!
Between grocery shopping, finishing up some laundry, and a few other chores, BJ and I found both the time and the desire to clean up the yard a little bit. There was some shrub pruning, 600 pounds of top soil to add to the garden, [...]

It’s time to stop whining about the weather and get outside to play a little bit.
This afternoon, BJ and I went out to work on getting the garden ready to plant.  We have a small raised bed that’s separated from the yard with three or four courses of stacked bricks.  We took it all apart, [...]

Have you ever noticed how events occur in groups of threes?
At least that’s the way it’s always been in my family. Births and deaths are the big ones, of course, but everything seems to come as a set of triplets. This time, it’s repairs we need to take care of around the [...]

It was a serious case of “you can’t get there from here.”
The little community we live in does a nice job of maintaining the infrastructure overall.  Every household in the village pays ten bucks a month for things like snow removal, street light electric bills, and the like, and today, some of that money went [...]