The nearest McDonald’s to us was just levelled and renovated. I haven’t been inside yet, but today I went through the drive through, since I was hungry and had $2.25 in change. As I get to the point where I am the next person in line, I notice a sign directly in front of me: [...]
Entries from October 2009
24 October, 2009
Wherein I lament the deaccessionary process
Why do I think that [with] every book that I throw/give away, I become a less interesting person?
As the Wife and I are both recovering academics, we have a lot of books between us. Since we’ve moved back to Indiana, a concerted effort has been made to cull the things that we really don’t want. [...]
24 October, 2009
Wherein I opine on Baseball
Wandering through the library yesterday, I happened upon Ken Burns’ Baseball series, which I haven’t watched in years. Its (original?) broadcast was one of the signal events of our early married days in Hyde Park, even though I would consider myself a marginal fan of the game, and the Wife not at all. I noticed [...]
20 October, 2009
Wherein I contemplate arboreal action
Since the Wife has already begun to cycle Christmas songs through her iTunes account, I might as well post something before the Fall ends.
Over our den there is what appears to be a black walnut tree. It tells us the Fall is coming because it starts shedding golf-ball-sized green orbs with a spongy outside [...]
12 October, 2009
Wherein I break in my first meme
Yow, this is going to be tough. As important as books have been in my life, even to the extent of managing two different bookstores and two stints in graduate school, my life hasn’t been a bookish life. Tomes that I tended to read as a youngster tended to the non-fiction side of things, trivia [...]
12 October, 2009
Wherein I sink your battleship
This is very Calvinball-esque. Another very funny video from baratsandbereta.com. Do families even play these games any more? [One un-bleeped "damn" and one bleeped f-word - show the kids at your own risk.]
