When you go to bed at 9:30 p.m MST (1:30 EDT), then you’re apt to wake at 5:00 a.m. and encounter the sun. The wifi here is incredibly slim and slow—the notebook in our room describes it as “variable”—which is not surprising, since we’re so remote that everything here has to be trucked in from […]
A simple task in my to-do app: Call Medicare. This is my prompt to call Anthem/Blue Cross to double-check on my Medicare coverage, which kicked in on May 1. Why? Because I continue to receive mailings from Anthem asking me to sign up for Medicare coverage as well as mailings confirming my coverage. I want […]
It’s still Wednesday, and I’m somewhere over the North Atlantic. Evidence of Hurricane Florence is not yet apparent. Here’s the view from the plane’s camera: [update: as we approached Hartsfield-Jackson, we flew over the property where Alchemy will be held — I got to see my domain from above!] Pretty spiffy, but there is no […]
A reminder that it is 5:00 pm on Monday, September 10, and this is my view as I sip my Negroni: That is Mt. Vesuvius. My Lovely First Wife [LFW] is still on the Isle of Capri. Onward! Thursday, September 6: Assisi There’s actually not a lot to say about Assisi — it’s a miniscule […]
We spent our last day mostly driving, up to Taos and back down. The scenery was stunning, as usual: Our goal was not Taos itself; we didn’t even stop in the little town. Our real goal was the Taos Pueblo. You may imagine our surprise when the road to the Pueblo was blocked because the […]
You thought there were a lot of photos yesterday? Today we went to the Museum of International Folk Art. We’ve been there before, on our Cross Country Caper back in 2013, and I’ll be repeating some of my observations from then. That first time, I was unaware that they encourage you to take photographs until […]
Well. Saturday night was the Lichtenbergian Society’s Annual Meeting, and before I could even call us to order that wretched scum W. Jeffery Bishop introduced a resolution to strip me of my chairmanship, a position I have held with honor for the past ten years. His reasons? Oh, something about accomplishing all my goals blah […]
Well, this is embarrassing. At the risk of exposing myself to [even more] Censure at the Lichtenbergian Annual Meeting in a couple of weeks, I would like to review my goals for this past year and evaluate how well I did. If you want a full explication of each one, see here. Lichtenbergianism A carryover […]
If you’ve read this blog for even a year, you know that in my spare time I am a dirty freaking hippie who attends “burns,” which are regional events modeled on Burning Man. Not only that, but since I am cursed with skills and competence I have risen in the ranks of leadership to Placement […]
I swear I thought I had blogged about this two years ago, but either my MySQL database is borked or I am delusional—none of the key words I’m about to write show up in a search of this blog. This is a ceramic piece sitting in our living room. Yesterday an old friend who was […]