May 23, 2009
Friday Night (Saturday Eve!)
Friday, May 22, 2009, 10:51 p.m. local time
Santa Cruz, California
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May 20, 2009
Day 1: 2 Trains
Left this morning at about 6:30 (thanks to Dad for taking us to the Amtrak station downtown…and extra kudos for showing up at 5 a.m. to do so!) on a coach class train to Chicago. My very first train ride, not counting the Frisco-Wabash out in Glencoe or the Zoo-line train. I was impressed by the roomy seats and big windows. I was not impressed by the airliner-type potties and two bucks for a can of pop. Breakfast was good: a ham, egg and cheese biscuit samich that M would never in a million years eat if he weren’t on vacation.
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May 17, 2009
Congraduations
Yesterday, two very special people graduated with Bachelor degrees. Hats off (or would it be mortar boards off?!) to Martin James Winkler and Cristina Garcilaso.
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May 16, 2009
Rosebud, MO
I didn’t have much time yesterday, and was pleased I got this much. I really want to go back, given the richness of the subject matter. I spent weeks every summer visiting my Granny and Gramps, who lived on some acreage with 2 lakes just outside of Rosebud, Missouri. These are some of the best memories of my life. A few things have changed in Rosebud since then, but not a lot.
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May 16, 2009
Farewell, Auntie Betty
We said good-bye to my Auntie Betty today. I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to write something for her and share it with friends and family.I’ll admit that it was hard for me to write something for my Auntie Betty. She was such a unique person, so different from anyone else I’ve ever known…how do you capture that sort of personality in words? I dug back through my memories and realized that knowing Betty was something of an educational experience. No, really. Bear with me here.There are a few things I’ve learned from my Auntie, and I’d like to share them with you today:
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May 14, 2009
I give it 4 phasers
We saw the new Star Trek movie last night.
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May 12, 2009
MOTDs and Shoes
Lately, I’ve been dreading picking Zozer up from school. It’s not that I don’t want to see her…I really do and my heart still flips over when she sees me, lights up, and comes barrelling across the playground to hug me.
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May 11, 2009
Did you miss me?
Oh my.
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May 4, 2009
We are the rulers of Nerdville
I’m upstairs working on the term paper for Ops. M is downstairs working on the term paper for Ops. We had to split up our workspace because apparently I still type too loud.
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April 29, 2009
Being Zoe’d
M and I, quite frequently, find things in places they ought not be, or find that we’re missing items altogether. We’ve discovered that we live with a little sprite who moves things around according to her whim, and therefore we’ve named those occurrances as “being Zoe’d.”
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