Sunday, September 22, 2013

Coming home from Grayslake, IL.

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Got the cool seat with no one in front of me!  Everyone is soooooooo jealous.  Excellent. 
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

An El Marko works even better than a pastry brush

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And who was El Marko, anyway? A Spanish nobleman who freed the peasants from the tyranny of erasable markers? Cause El Marko's ain't...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Pinkie driving me insane today

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Yes. It's a pastry brush.  What of it? 
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Returning from Wisconsin to a scarily deserted airport

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Yes. I'm in Wisconsin

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In Winnecone en route to Steven's Point. Woo!

TW being mad

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He hates being caught with his own row. On to Milwaukee! 
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Out with the old; In with the new

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Old New Carol bought this place in 2003; the place was built in 1989.  As far as we know, the refrigerator was the original. ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Death and the Capitol Steps

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A sad weekend.  Former Capitol Step Dave Werner was found dead in a Maryland hotel room not far from his home in nearby Virginia. Facts ar...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Crabbing. And looking haughty doing it.

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Off Solomon's Island with C and Danny Paolucci.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Screen window woes (or: "If I'm so smart, why can't I get my F'n screen windows out?")

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This is the window in question from the exterior.  Even less accessible to me than it looks like it is. Same window - interior. ...
Monday, August 19, 2013

I am contemplating disposals at Home Depot

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Which can only lead to a far more amusing post at some point in the future. 
Friday, August 16, 2013

Tulsa, OK from room 915, the Tulsa Renaissance

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Been here the last day and a half. Wasn't supposed to be,  but Brian's dad's polio took a bad turn. Took this picture at n...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Happy Birthday, Mom!

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If I were there, Mom, I would want to make you a cake. A cake that looked like this: Or like this: Or ma...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Window fixed Monday, long, long drive Tuesday.

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Took hours longer than it should have.   Made it though. 'Just follow the Slush Puppie,' I kept telling myself. 
Sunday, August 4, 2013

Vandalism in the Berkshires

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Driving home Thursday night,  my passenger side window  shattered inward, spraying tempered glass all over my car. One lane road; no cars ar...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

Seiji Ozawa - famous conductor, oft-appearing at hoity-toity Tanglewood, a Wolf Trap-like performing arts place nearby

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...and appearing in urinals at the Cranwell as well.   How honored he must feel. 
Thursday, August 1, 2013

Last two days have been actually golfing on actual golf course

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Even got to drive a cart! Did horrible,  naturally,  but not as horribly as I expected.  Wrists,  ankles,  feet, sore as hell. 
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Second in an ongoing series: pointless and gratuitous quotation marks

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I think the first in this series was five years ago or so, but never mind.  I eventually remembered to do another.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Oh, plus I got a haircut

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Also, took the Taconic Parkway up this time

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A touch longer but pretty and relaxing.  With colorful,  friendly bridges. 

Back to the Berkshires

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And back over this stupid bridge again.  You know, a truck just like this knocked a young woman in her car off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge jus...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Detroit airport

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There is definitely WAY more of this airport. This is like a nanoparticle of it.  Detroit having gone bankrupt yesterday,  we were glad to g...

The Traverse City airport.

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This is entirety of it beyond security.  I love airports like this.  Still a slight amount of Barney Fife-ism at small airports but not near...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

The view from Room 203, the Grand Traverse Resort and Spa, Michigan

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Have definitely had worse. 
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Off to Travers City, via Detroit...except. ..

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...this is sorta where my plane should be.  Hmmmm.