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My parental duty for the evening
My parental duty for the day has been locating old pipe organ music on the net for H.o.p. He wanted to hear and we don’t have a turntable to play the several albums of Italian, German and English renaissance organ music that we used to have which got all scratched up and are either in…
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OK, so I've read up on Netflix and throttling…
H.o.p. woke up sick and has been down for the count all day. Marty’s out being filmed for a BBC documentary (I’ll describe later). Oh, here comes H.o.p. now. And I’ve been reading about Netflix and throttling. Will we end up being disappointed in Netflix as well? Probably. Because I’m a new customer may be…
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Well, we shall see how this works
Despite some of the things I’ve read, I went ahead and got a Netflix subscription. We don’t have cable, the movie rental places closest to us are very slim on anything but current flicks, and I wanted to make available to H.o.p. documentaries/educational DVDs without having to purchase them. We must be very dull people…
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Just getting new materials for H.o.p. in line for the year, that's all I'm doing
Books, books and more books. That’s what I’ve been up to. Ordering books for H.o.p. for this coming year. Math books and history books and science books. Books, books and more books. And plenty of books now waiting in the Wish List for ordering later. I never know what’s going to catch H.o.p.’s interest. Unexpectedly,…
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Fernbank Science Center – What we learned at the Planetarium today (3 views)
Pond at the Fernbank Science Center It’s a fairly nice small pond to sit beside for a little while. In this case after viewing the show at the Planetarium today which was on the stars of summer in our hemisphere (difficult to follow via just a sometimes too quickly moving pointer) with some information also…
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The paper skeleton that is actually essential text in some college courses–well, at least one
Re my post the other day on putting together this paper skeleton for H.o.p., an exercise in frustration, and then finding that the same book, “Cut and Make a Human Skeleton” is an essential textbook for Anatomy and Physiology I at Ol Miss in the class of a Dr. Denis Goulet and being floored by…
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I spent my day stitching paper bones together with artificial sinew
The world is falling apart and here I am performing the essential duty of stitching paper bones together. However did that come to pass? Yesterday we’d planned another excursion to North Georgia, but H.o.p. was slow slow slow to get going, so slow that by the time we instead arrived at the Fernbank Science Center…
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New Echota
Light box enlargement Emerson writing of the American Indian Removal of 1838 said, it was a “crime that really deprives us as well as the Cherokees of a country; for how could we call the conspiracy that should crush these poor Indians our Government, or the land that was cursed by their parting and dying…
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Banana popsicle
Just finished eating a banana popsicle in honor of the one banana popsicle I had as a child. It wasn’t the same and I don’t think the cause is solely the intervening years and faulty memory. When I was little and the ice cream man came around in Richland, I’d a friend who loved banana…
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We have a new upstairs neighbor (still typing without the apostrophe as WordPress will not let me use it now)
Our last upstairs neighbors were two women who moved in and then never paid rent. The apartment just above us has a history of people moving in who cease at some point to pay rent and then skip out. These women never paid rent again at all. Earlier this week I heard someone upstairs at…
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Yes, you can get attached to goldfish
For some reason this week our fish went sceptic. I don’t know why. The water in the tank is good. PH is good. Everything is good. This happened a couple of months ago but that time the water proved to be suddenly way too acidic, the water coming from our tap the culprit. We got…
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Hot here, there, everywhere, busted AC and myriad failures
Hot here, there, everywhere – need I say more. But I will. We live in an urban apt with no natural ventilation because the windows are all nailed shut or sealed shut with paint. Our couple of window air units aren’t the best in the world, the one in the bedroom cooled about 14 inches…