Sometimes, life causes you to make it. In this case, no Toronto/Montreal trip. I was in a car accident yesterday. I wasn’t driving, no one’s hurt. The car lost the front driver’s side wheel. That’s what you get when an SUV veers into your lane, and clips you. And the SUV had only a scratch. …
I’ll be in Montreal in about a week. This will be the tail-end of a trip which will include seeing friends in Toronto beforehand, and I know what to do in Toronto, but Montreal is all unknown to me. What should I do there? Let me know what’s cool in Montreal. In other news, vests. …
I just wanted to say that I’ve taken the GREs, and now am free to work on grad school apps and plan my Grand Travel Plans and go on an orgy of visiting folks and being super-social. It’s good. My mind is freed.
Monday I’ll be leaving to drive back east, across this too-large country. It’ll be an adventure of sorts, but I won’t be dawdling in the least. There may be some pictures. This blog (and everything else on this box) will be down for a few days, as it sits in the back of a car …
I write this in the Denver airport; I am flying east, to be there for a week. I hope to see folks. Also, I finished Dracula last night. Quite good, though the entire role and character of Quincey Morris is underexplored and underexplained. I would love to see some sort of speculative backstory for him, …
One of the best things I learned from my dad, that. When estimating how long something will take, remember that just because an action is simple, does not mean it takes no time. This weekend, I got a degree better at estimating how long various coding tasks would take me. It felt good. Mostly, this …
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It was a pleasant one; the thing that has made it best for me, though, is probably the rain every evening, like right now, as it comes down outside, and I contemplate how much water, particularly moving water, is amazing. (Who am I kidding? Seeing friends and talking with random strangers was what made it …
I love the weather here; the snow has been coming down all day, and it’s magical outside. I could deal with a lovely long winter, I think; though this has had days like hiking in a t-shirt on my birthday (January 19) and an interlude in Africa… Speaking of which, I hope people have liked …
Ugh, I’ve been meaning to write about Tanzania, but I just don’t know how. It doesn’t seem to lend itself to narrative very well. One thing I have been telling people, a highlight of the trip, was staying with a retired Tanzanian general with whom I am somehow related (getting euro-interpretable kinship terms from Tanzanians …
I returned from Africa a few days ago. The shift from Tanzanian heat and humidity to snow on the streets of Boulder was jarring, but pleasant. I’ll post about the trip over the next few days, when I get on top of all the busy-ness again. Also, pictures forthcoming.