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• When you decide not to hang up • [7 MIN READ] One of the people I get together with regularly is happy to break bread at any of a few places where we usually frequent, but occasionally we need to expand our horizons. A recent attempt to do just that became an exercise both … More Hello? I’m Looking for Information
• Wordle during a run • [1 MIN READ] (2022’09’17’S: Prompt 7/8*) WORDLE SPOILER ALERT! On a Shawmont Eva run, Desi and Boltcutter got us thinking about Wordle. It promptly became the topic of the nonce, tempered by a healthy dose of CtCloser. The fact that the most recent ‘REALLY?!’ answer was PARER, got me … More Definitely, Not Fun (#117: 1/7/23 RUN REPORT)
• To start the first days of the rest of your life • [1 MIN READ] Of Years: If you’re thinking 2022 sure did past fast it might be because you’ve acquired many years in your life. During the nation’s bicentennial year in 1976, I was a 13-year-old thinking the year 2000 was a long … More Some Perspective About Quantity (#187: 2023’01’04’W)
• Well, which is it? ±? • On the morning when we were supposed to be on our way to AK for volunteer service work, Wife decided to do a COVID-19 home test. D-minus-3 days before, she had been en route back home from a late-developing work trip in NV and had started feeling an … More Positive Amid Negative
Being a university librarian affords me some amazing opportunities. Like the chance to attend a lecture by a Nobel Prize laureate. Every year Arcadia University awards an honorary degree to 2 individuals at both our graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremonies. This year we honored Montgomery County Commissioner Val Arkoosh, M.D., and 1985 Nobel Prize laureate … More Lectured by a Nobel Prize Laureate and Returning the Favor
Using Google to identify images. … More Short and Sweet: Use Google Well
As a perfectionist, I annoy the completionists around me who just want to get the task done. Over the years, I’ve learned to give up some of my tendencies. I know I’m far from, uh, perfect. This morning I approached my office to find the work table outside the front of it missing. That might … More Completionists Can Be Really Annoying
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