Getting back to my normal activities is probably one of the things I need to do here in order to get healthier, so I’ll do the Friday Five this week. A few weeks ago when I realized that I’d be doing a Friday Five on Leap Day, I kind of peaked ahead at Wikipedia’s listing for this day to see if there was much of anything I could pull for the usual historical opener. I found some stuff that I thought I might be able…
My family and I wish to extend our deepest thanks to those of you who have contacted us over the past five days with your sympathies and condolences. I wish I could say more about what happened to Dad, but at this point all I can really say is that he died at 1300 this past Saturday, and that we were told that the preliminary cause of death was believed to be an aneurysm in his stomach. As far as how we are doing, we…
My father died from an aneurysm earlier today. Apologies if I don’t blog here for a while, but I have more pressing issues to tend to right now.
I keep a small whiteboard next to my computer to write notes to myself on. I use the upper-left hand corner of this whiteboard to list topics that I want to blog about at some point, either when something happens with them or in cases like tonight where I feel a need to blog but don’t have anything too pressing to blog about. Sometimes topics will only stay on the board for a couple of days, but sometimes they’ll be on there for much longer.…
I finally got a "good" snow day yesterday. It had been snowing pretty much since I woke up, and as the afternoon dragged on things really got a lot worse, to the point where we had a winter storm warning here in town. I kept checking MCCC‘s Website to see if they were going to cancel, but they kept saying that they were open. Finally, just before I was about to go out and clean off my van, I called the secretary of my department…