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Getting out of Dodge
It was late. I couldn’t sleep. And, separately, I’ve been on the search for westerns lately. So late at night, early in the morning, really when I couldn’t sleep, I found the 1939 classic Dodge City....
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I’ve seen this one! (Star Trek edition)
I went to the movies this weekend: And I wrote about it here. Some excerpts: Three warbirds open the film. I've never seen this in a theater. I think my first viewing was off a top-loading VCR, so this...
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Just add music
Tonight was the annual Halloween concert at IU Auditorium. We watched the legendary Dennis James play a score to the 1925 classic The Lost World, an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story. The...
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May the mamma mia be with you, neighbor
Got it a little present last night at the hardware store. We needed parts, and this was one of the next things I was going to acquire anyway. It was this or a router. And I think I’ll use a Kreg jig...
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Ran a casual neighborhood 5K today, making two-days in a row of exercise. I wonder how many days it’ll be before I put together two more consecutive days of exercise. (Update: It was a few, as it turns...
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‘They’re coming! They’re coming!’
Two years ago, plague. Last year, plague. And locusts. This year, plague. And also … The birds, the noisy noisy birds. The messy, messy birds. You should see the sidewalks. But it’s better if you don’t...
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Do not dip the needle in gasoline
I didn’t know it any point in time over time, but I have watched four Karate Kid movies — including the unnecessary Next Karate Kid. I also watched the inappropriately named 2010 remake with Jaden...
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The wizard as a crazy, younger, man
Just some quick Twitter stuff to fill your time today. We wrapped up the new Obi-Wan series tonight. The quick review: worth watching. I say that as a person who wants Disney to explore any other part...
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Review: ‘Old on the inside’
We had a physical therapy appointment for The Yankee this morning. I drove her over, since, just four-days post-op and in a sling for the next several weeks, she doesn’t have her driving privileges. We...
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Counting hours
After today there’s just a half-day or so left in my work year. And, a few short minutes after that, we’ll be undertaking the great traveling adventure. This realization, this countdown, is oddly...
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Am assured we’ll maybe see some sunshine this weekend
We had the fog earlier, the snow tomorrow, the rain today. This was the view looking back up the street. I had to wait several seconds to get a shot with the road empty. And then I waited for this guy...
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1,000 breezy words
Is it just me or is everyone lately wiped out by Thursday? It wasn’t always this way. There must be some corner of Reddit where I can find the best and most reasonable theories. I’m not searching for...
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Should we continue trying to travel in March?
Or traveling at all? Here is where we are. Spring Break is next week. We’re taking a few extra days for a conference and that meant a trip to the airport and that’s where the fun begins. We flew,...
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BCN – JFK – IND
After the cab to the Barcelona airport, we hustled inside, hoping to beat the large crowd of obviously American high school students who were filing in. Happily, they were not on our flight, and not on...
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“What really makes it new is the fact that we are here”
Tomorrow I’ll put four more big plastic bins in the basement because this weekend I prepared two fo them for storage. Also this weekend, and today, I emptied six more bins of books. Tonight I finished...
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Going fast, and also seeing things slowly
I have two classes tomorrow, so a substantial part of yesterday, and almost all of today, have been spent in making notes for myself, trying to think up ways to keep students’ attention and give them...
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One Short Day
Because everything is lining up, and because it was cold and all of the little people are back in school we went to the movies and caught a matinee. I’ll give you one guess what we saw. We saw the...
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